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While you can find many cars with all-wheel drive available at any given dealership in recent years, the very first AWD car ...

For the wheel, such fatuous lines of discussion run, has already been invented, and with a rounded perfection which requires no amendments or updates.

This Women's History Month, we're celebrating inventions made by women. Nancy Johnson created the first hand-cranked ice-cream maker in 1843. Famous American chef Julia Child developed a shark ...

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This article contains spoilers for The Wheel of Time season 3 episode 4. There’s a foundational principle of narrative writing that is particularly important in television storytelling; that of ...

Synopsis: Every 3rd Wednesday of the month, The Straits Times examines not just vehicle prices but wider transport issues and trends connected to public and private transport. It turned out that ...

Deep observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed an exceptionally large galaxy in the early universe. It's a cosmic giant whose light has travelled over 12 billion years to ...

One moment she was sitting in a pleasure boat travelling at high speed through the darkness of Lake Ontario. And the next, she was thrown into the cool water, the boat was flipped on top of her ...