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How Tower Cranes Work
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Tower cranes rise 150 feet in the air and lift up to 19 tons. Plus, they actually build themselves! They're simply amazing. Learn how these structures accomplish such feats.
9 Tips to Stop Snoring
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Are you trying to stop snoring, or get someone else to stop snoring? Take a look at these 9 tips to stop snoring for help getting peaceful sleep.
How Bug Zappers Work
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Bug zappers can help keep your backyard free of pesky insects. Find out how bug zappers kill insects and take a look at the inside of a bug zapper.
Back to School: Locker Organization Tips
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Locker organization tips can help you organized throughout the school year. Learn more about locker organization tips from Discovery Health.
Moths Are Mother Nature's Secret Pollinators
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Bees get a lot of credit for pollinating important food crops, but they get a lot of secret help from their nocturnal friends, the moths.
How Emergency Rooms Work
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Movies and TV shows depict emergency rooms as insanely intense places. But do you want to know what an emergency department in a hospital is really like? Learn all about what goes on in a real-life ER.
How Overweight Loads Work
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An overweight load can be a dangerous thing to tow. Learn what constitutes an overweight load at HowStuffWorks.
How the Year 2000 Problem Worked
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Until recently, computer programmers used two-digit placeholders for the year portion of the date in their software. Guess what happened when we realized the system couldn't account for the first two numbers? Mass panic.
How Building Implosions Work
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Safe, professional building implosions combine mathematics, intuition and sheer explosive power. Find out how the experts bring down huge structures without damaging the buildings nearby.
Exploring the "G" in Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation
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Sir Isaac Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation helps put the laws of gravity into a mathematical formula. And the gravitational constant is the "G" in that formula.