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We pour all kinds of things down our sinks without thinking twice: the cloudy water left after cooking pasta, baking soda and vinegar mixtures, even straight boiling water. Some of these DIY tricks ...

The trick to removing microplastics from drinking water might be much easier than we all expected. Findings published by researchers in China reveal that boiling water can be an effective way to ...

In 1961, MIT meteorologist Edward Lorenz was inputting numbers into a weather prediction program. His model was based on a dozen variables, the value of one being .506127. When he ran the model again, ...

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A Maine resident decided to have some fun in the wintry weather, by instantly freezing hot water in the cold air. Rob Wright said he filmed himself “tossing boiling water in the subzero air, turning ...