23 simple, real-world strategies to help make your home safer, your sleep sounder, and your fitness goals more attainableMake a few small changes around the house—and your year will be off to an ...

Japan-based materials experts have made impressive progress in the search for a better biodegradable plastic. The breakthrough starts with an abundant material: cellulose from wood pulp. Takuzo Aida, ...

For people who build their own model trains there are a range of manufacturers from whom a power bogie containing the motor and drive can be sourced. But as [Le petit train du Berry] shows us in a ...

Katherine “Kate” Ho, the John L. Weinberg Professor of Economics and Business Policy, died on Dec. 8, 2025, surrounded by family. She was 53. A memorial will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 27, ...

The perfect Christmas song sets the mood right away. Our next guest wants to destroy all that. STEPHEN THOMPSON, BYLINE: (Laughter). MARTIN: Stephen Thompson of NPR Music has brought us some of his ...

It could be the perfect holiday gift: Affordable, gets kids away from screens, oozes nostalgia and is made in Massachusetts. Welcome to Guillow's. The model airplane and balsa wood glider company has ...

When you're selling something, whether it's clothing or a collectible, the item's quality will affect its sellability. Certain things will sell, even if they're not in the best condition, but that ...

Sweet potatoes may be stars; cornbread dressing a contender. Dinner rolls are divine and green bean casserole a go-to. But Thanksgiving dinner isn’t complete without turkey. Given the emphasis placed ...

Biotech startup FutureBio, the first tenant of UC Berkeley’s Bakar Labs for Energy and Materials, hopes to produce and recycle a new kind of durable, biorenewable plastic at a lower cost than regular ...

Long before he became one of the most powerful judges in the country, James Ho sat down with one of his heroes, Edwin Meese III, in Washington, D.C. Ho was 26, fresh out of the University of Chicago ...