You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Maybe every dormitory room doesn't need 13,000 plastic balls. But David Nichol, a senior at Rice ...

Indestructible objects are useful enrichment for nonhuman primates (Bayne et al. 1993; Bloomsmith et al. 1990; Fritz and Howell 1993; Sanz et al. 1999; Shefferly et al. 1993). They reduce time spent ...

The Guinness widget is a tiny, plastic ball inside beer cans. During canning, pressurized nitrogen is added to the brew, which trickles into a hole in the widget. Once opened, the widget's ...

If you’re an Angeleno, you’re probably used to the black plastic balls floating in local reservoirs. But the rest of us may be wondering why LA’s turning a massive water source into a goth-looking ...

LOS ANGELES — When word got out that Southern California water suppliers were covering some reservoirs with swarms of grapefruit-size plastic balls this summer, millions of people went searching for ...

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Plastic heads, mascara tubes, foot-tall daiquiri glasses and dozens of cylindrical bottles form neat rows on shelves inside Artisan Screen Printing Inc.’s Azusa manufacturing facility. During its 11 ...

(NEWSER) – The Los Angeles Reservoir has now turned black, but not from any kind of pollution. Over several months, city officials have been unleashing 96 million black plastic balls into the city's ...

When Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, standing alongside several workers from the Department of Water and Power (LADWP), was photographed emptying a bag of “shade balls” into the Los Angeles Reservoir ...

Every month, we round up some of the most strange, striking and plain stunning snapshots of the world around us, including everything from psychedelic riverbeds to volcanic lightning. Check them out ...

Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani felt the revenge of manager Dave Roberts after Roberts pranked him back by filling his car with plastic balls, escalating their ongoing prank war. On Friday, the ...