Sweden uses common salt to de-ice its roads in winter, contrary to online posts that say it uses a new beet extract salt, the country’s Transport Administration has said. Posts shared on social media, ...

Death to bad breath comes in cloves. Garlic — that pungent, bulb-shaped veggie that gives food a kick and vampires the ick — is now being crowned a possible cure for halitosis, per a new report.

It can be pretty disturbing what's out there. The list of IP addresses and services associated with a URL you've visited can be eye-opening. If you want to find out exactly what your footprint looks ...

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...

What if your old bottle of cooking oil could help save the planet and your smartphone? That's the big idea behind a groundbreaking discovery by researchers in Finland. Scientists from the University ...

Burning the aerogel that had adsorbed and reduced gold from an e-waste solution produced this 0.5 g gold nugget with a purity of around 91 percent, corresponding to 21 to 22 carats. Credit: Raffaele ...

Databases will soon be capable of monitoring their own health, identifying bottlenecks, adjusting configurations, and even rerouting traffic in real time. Generative AI has already had a profound ...

In spring 2021, Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego wanted to make a big bet on bitcoin. To fund the purchases, he made plans to borrow $400 million from banks. As collateral, he would hand ...

Security researchers say Chinese authorities are using a new type of malware to extract data from seized phones, allowing them to obtain text messages — including from chat apps such as Signal — ...