The iconic "Polar Express," train was inspired by the 1941 Pere Marquette 1225 steam locomotive. Now, fans hope to make the ...

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The severity of global warming has long depended on your frame of reference — on what temperature you think was normal for ...

Science is the spice that keeps things nerdy. And nerdy, as our dedicated readers know, can be tons of fun. To help you out this holiday season, we here at the Gizmodo science desk rounded up our ...

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A powerless helicopter doesn’t drop—it autorotates, gliding like a maple seed. This breakdown explains how that works, why gyro boats and WWII U-boat rotor kites flew without engines, and how some ...

Veteran Bay Area biomedical CEO Paul Hastings had to lay off five dozen employees at his company earlier this year, thanks, he said, to what he described as the Trump administration’s attacks on ...