The world’s most prized coffee comes from partially digested beans pooped out by the Asian palm civet. Now, researchers are delving into why this “civet coffee” is so tasty. New chemical analyses of ...

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California-based nuclear microreactor developer Radiant has announced that it will build its first factory on a Manhattan Project site in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. (Image: Radiant) The land for Radiant's ...

Ripple is a goofy business. For more than a decade now, the company has held vast quantities of magic beans known as XRP, which it dumps onto the market at regular intervals. It’s not clear why anyone ...

When Isaac Harris and Max Blanck met in New York City in their twenties, they shared a common story. Born in Russia, both men had immigrated to the United States in the early 1890s, and, like hundreds ...

Earl Tupper was a dreamer and a tinkerer who liked to improve the things he saw around him. Always devising better gadgets and gizmos, Tupper held equally strong opinions about how to improve the ...

Trump orders DOJ investigation into meatpacking companies over alleged price fixing as beef costs soar. Attorney General Pam Bondi confirms probe is underway. KFC reinvents itself by entering the ...

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