The podcast hosts of How Stuff Works speak in friendly, conversational tones, but their voices carry surprisingly far in their efforts to educate and entertain. Over the past decade, the audio shows ...

Editor’s Note: The Triangle-based entrepreneur and futurist Marshall Brain, the creator of “How Stuff Works” and the author of the new book, “The Doomsday Book: The Science Behind Humanity’s Greatest ...

Marshall Brain, educator and founder of the popular edutainment company HowStuffWorks, died last week at the age of 63. Born in California, Brain moved to Raleigh in the 1980s to complete a master’s ...

HowStuffWorks is about the stuff that makes the world go 'round. It's truly incredible to see the ingenious lengths people go to in order to extract rubber and iron, corn and wheat, and water and salt ...

Let’s get right to the point: Corn is much more than a backyard barbecue side dish. In fact, there are more than 3,500 different uses for corn products: Chewing gum, peanut butter, vitamins, paint, ...