There’s a mark on the bricks of Graham and Jane Ogden’s fireplace that is unlike any other. The retired bricklayer and his wife have lived at 63-73 Musavale Road in Eerwah Vale on the Sunshine Coast ...

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For decades, familiar copper-based telephone lines—known as Plain Old Telephone Service, or POTS, have reliably powered communication nationwide. But those days are ending. POTS lines are being ...

Plastic pollution is a "grave, growing and under-recognized danger" to health that is costing the world at least $1.5 trillion a year, a report published Monday in the Lancet medical journal said. The ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Like many old women, I object to being called “young lady” and I find it offensive. (I do not want anyone to call me this, but only older men tend to do so.) When I point out to ...

Ichthyosaur fossil confirmed for the first time in western Japan — also marks Japan’s first discovery of a Late Triassic ichthyosaur. Researchers have confirmed that a fossil discovered in Takahashi ...

Morrowind might be 23 years old, but that's not stopping its cult coterie of modders and whizzkids from updating it. One thankful addition that makes a lot of this possible are script extenders, which ...

A new study by researchers at Northwestern and Harvard reveals that infants as young as 15 months can infer the meaning of unfamiliar words even when the objects they refer to are not visible. By ...

Long before they decided to sell bottled water, I remember my mom telling her children that nothing was better for thirst than plain old water. Susan Davis (Courtesy photo) As a farm wife, there were ...

A high schooler, Matteo Paz, won $250,000 for discovering 1.5 million new space objects with AI. Paz built an AI algorithm to search data from a NASA space telescope for objects such as black holes.