If a plastic litter box is a standard car, then a stainless steel one might as well be a Cybertruck: ultramodern, scratch resistant, possibly gratuitous. So how do you know whether you should upgrade ...

Before you could order food from across town and get it delivered right to your school's front door, kids were clanging to and from school with their flashy metal lunch boxes. In the 1960s and 1970s, ...

This big ‘black box’ will soon record everything we say or do about climate change - and help future generations understand more about how we got into this crisis. The practically indestructible ...

Did you know a trucking entrepreneur invented the modern shipping container? A dockworker from the 1950s would not recognize a modern cargo port, where huge gantries move steel boxes full of cargo ...

If you're of a certain age, you probably remember your first clunky metal lunch box. Emblazoned with everything from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Barbie, these tin containers were a required ...

The boarded-up home has become a stark symbol of the economic crisis in Atlanta. In some neighborhoods, house after house is secured with plywood planks, evoking the ominous atmosphere of a beach town ...

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: Driving Interstate 40 at the Tennessee line where reconstruction is underway, there are several dozen huge steel ...

Considering its position as the world’s largest producer of metal containers, American Can Co. remains understandably red-faced over its abortive 1929 attempt to set up shop in Britain. That year the ...