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 ...

This summer at "The Beach" in Washington, D.C., there was no saltwater or sand. "The Beach" was an art installation at the National Building Museum featuring an ocean of 750,000 translucent, plastic ...

When you play a game of billiards, you’re usually hoping to hear the satisfying clack of the balls. You’re probably not hoping to hear a sound like gunfire as your cue ball connects with the eight ...

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 ...

The city of Los Angeles has dumped millions of small black balls into the city’s reservoirs in an effort to protect the city’s water supply. The “shade balls” are intended to maintain good water ...

Three years ago, the drought-stricken city of Los Angeles covered the surface of the LA Basin with 96 million shade-providing floating balls, in order to keep the water beneath from evaporating. Now, ...

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 ...

The long Labor Day weekend is a time for backyard barbecues, catching up with friends and family, and for some, a game of Wiffle Ball. Over the years, the Wiffle Ball has wound its way into the fabric ...

Our daughter started playing softball this spring, so I've been spending a fair amount of time thinking about the mechanics of hitting a baseball. Of course, being in an older suburban development, we ...

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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft’s original mission was to fly to the asteroid Bennu, where it was mean to briefly land on the body’s presumably rocky surface, collect a small sample, and head back home.