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You’re eating dinner and your child excitedly describes how his teacher took a bucket of water and swung it around without spilling a drop. Your child is talking about centrifugal force! Your child is talking to you!...

By: Lisa Bronart

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By: Bertil Hjert

The Science behind Wind Chimes

Wind chimes have come a long way since their banging, clanging days of old. Today’s precision-tuned wind chimes produce a melody as inviting, sweet, and clear as the song sung by pristine waters cascading down a moun...

By: Stephen Betzen

The VeraSun plant in Central City. It also had plants in Ord and Albion. WORLD-HERALD NEWS SERVICE VeraSun to farmers: Pay us back Nebraska farmers who sold corn to the former VeraSun Energy Corp.

U.S. Agriculture Department employees worked full-time at two Iowa egg farms at the center of a salmonella outbreak and massive recall, but two former workers said they ignored complaints about con...

Dairy farmer Anthony Marco was compressing a long row of chopped hay beneath his tractor two weeks ago, preparing it as winter feed for his cows, when the 4-ton machine suddenly toppled over as he ...

The earthquake occurred at 9:35 a.m. and had a depth of 4 miles. The quake was centered about 1 kilometer north-northwest of central San Pablo and 2 miles north of Richmond, according to the USGS.