Startups often don't play by the rules. But a wifi-enabled juicer may have been "trying to solve a problem that didn't exist."

From household plastic to industrial waste, anthropogenic activity has created compounds that poison ecosystems from water to air.

While the GI Bill itself was progressive, much of the country still functioned under both covert and blatant segregation.

For several months in 2016, creepy clowns terrorized America, with sightings of actual clowns in at least 10 different states.

When caused by storms, receding oceans are result of an inverted storm surge, a “negative surge.” Storm surges have a few causes.

Floating masses of fire ants have been observed drifting in the floodwaters resulting from Hurricane Harvey. How does a swarm of fire ants float?

Senator and Governor Huey Long of Louisiana was assassinated on September 10, 1935, but he packed many accomplishments into his short political career.

There’s been a devastating trail of destruction and flooding along the east Atlantic coast in the last few ...

Today, economists tend to see anything that boosts consumption and production as a good thing. But that was decidedly not the case in earlier centuries.

Although a car seems like a long-term capital investment, it is only a crash or disaster away from becoming two tons of mass-consumer junk.