A few years ago, I discovered the HowStuffWorks.com Web site and soon had printed a binder full of articles that explain how various technologies work. Reading them helped me learn more about search ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, which traces its beginnings to Research Triangle Park, has attracted the interest of a major investor. Major. HowStuffWorks, a web site devoted to providing information about just what ...

Discovery Communications Inc. agreed to buy the website HowStuffWorks .com to add to its cable-television shows about science and consumer information and boost advertising sales. Discovery will pay ...

HowStuffWorks, which already claims the title of world’s largest for-profit podcasting company in terms of streams and downloads, is about to start putting out even more podcasts—about $15 million ...

Blucora continues to expand through acquisitions. The Bellevue company today announced that it’s buying HowStuffWorks from Discovery Communications, paying $45 million for the Internet’s how-to guide ...

HowStuffWorks has changed owners more than once in the past few years. Discovery sold the company to Blucora in 2014, and Blucora, in turn, sold it to digital advertising company System1 last year.

iHeartMedia has agreed to acquire Stuff Media, the company that owns the HowStuffWorks podcasting business. The companies did not disclose the financial terms of the deal, but both the Wall Street ...

The internal combustion gasoline engine -- we have a love/hate relationship with it. It creates a lot of pollution. It is incredibly inefficient. It spews carbon into the atmosphere. It makes us ...