THE school summer holidays are upon us, with six weeks to fill to entertain the kids. If you’re looking for fun for the whole ...

Beatbot makes AI-powered robotic pool cleaners that handle the maintenance for you, so you can focus on actually enjoying ...

Physicists have debated which way a submerged sprinkler sucking in water would spin. Careful experiments provide an answer.

Swimming pools are fun. Cleaning swimming pools is not fun. I learned this simple logic as a kid growing up in and around pools—it’s the only way to survive summer in Houston. Four years ago, I became ...

Pools are hard. This is not news to anyone who owns one, but the uninitiated may not know about the inordinate amount of daily labor and chores that lie behind a pool’s clear, sparkling, perfectly ...

Wickham Road, Melbourne, at 7 p.m. on July 11. The program opens with Beethoven'sString Quartet in F Major, Op. 59 No. 1, and continues with Brahms' String Quartet No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 51 No. 1. A ...

Nebraska family spots make messy fun the point, giving kids room to dig, splash, explore, and burn off energy without ...

Algal blooms in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C., have long been a visible public nuisance. When the pool turned green again on June 15, less than two weeks after President ...

I’ve been spending the past few months digging into home robotics, and one thing is incredibly obvious: Robot vacuums, lawn mowers, and pool cleaners are becoming more accessible. Homeowners can ...

The newly painted Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. was supposed to be “American Flag blue.” Instead, on June 16, the water turned an un-American shade of sickly green as an algal ...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said that the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has become a “swamp” because the GOP doesn’t understand science. Ocasio-Cortez made the comments in response to ...

Not one for an easy life, Michael Pollan has taken on tricky subjects before in the shape of psychedelics, plants and food. This time, it’s that ultra-slippery beat, consciousness. It’s taken five ...