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6 Cool Innovations That Could Change Air Travel Forever
Choosing your seatmates through social media? Facial recognition technology to match you and your luggage? The airline industry has the ideas... but will it adopt them?
How Parking Garages Track Open Spaces, and Why They Often Get It Wrong
HowStuffWorks looks at the inexact science of keeping count in a parking garage.
Spider Monkeys Are the Trapeze Artists of the Treetops
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Spider monkeys, an endangered species, are the largest monkeys in the Americas and live in the forest canopy, where they swing through the trees with the greatest of ease.
Commensalism: I Benefit, You Don't, but It's All Good
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Commensalism is a form of cooperation among species in which one species benefits from another without the first one suffering any harm from the relationship.
When Bad Watermelons Explode on Good People
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It's fairly rare, but a potentially catastrophic rind failure lurks under the green-striped shell of every seemingly innocent watermelon in the produce aisle.
Corresponding Angles: A Fundamental Geometry Concept
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Corresponding angles are what you get when two parallel lines are crossed by a third line, creating angles that have the same relative position at each intersection. They're easy to find once you know what to look for.
Monk Fruit Is Nature's Zero-calorie Sweetener
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China banned export of the fruit in 2004, so you'll likely never try it fresh. But you've probably already had its extract and didn't even know it.
What Are the Nitrogen Cycle Steps?
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The nitrogen cycle is the system by which nitrogen is converted into different chemical forms, some usable to humans and animals and some not, as it circulates among the atmosphere, the land and the oceans.
The Ultimate 'A Christmas Story' Quiz
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'A Christmas Story' is the anti-Hallmark Card film about the holidays. Take this HowStuffWorks quiz to find out more about this classic movie.
What's Inside Mount Rushmore's Not-So-Secret Chamber?
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Mount Rushmore contains a small chamber, part of an abandoned plan to preserve American history for thousands of years. HowStuffWorks steps inside.