How are things made? In this video I take a look at the different types of manufacturing processes - forming, casting, molding, machining, joining and additive manufacturing - which are used to create ...

When you buy through our links, Business Insider may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more Many steps go into making the modern mattress. Most include a complex combination of foam, metal, and ...

Here’s a brief explainer on how moguls are made with the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics in full tilt this winter. | Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images With the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics underway, you ...

I’m a meteorologist, and I’ve been fascinated by weather since I was 8 years old. I grew up in Minnesota, where the weather changes from wind-whipping blizzards in winter to severe thunderstorms – ...

Millions of the candies are made daily in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Some say an Easter basket isn’t complete without Peeps, while others deride them as being indestructible. Workers monitor Peeps ...

Every year, rows of potato plants stretch across 27,000 acres at Heartland Farms in Hancock, Wisconsin, waiting to be harvested and transported to production plants. The family-owned, fifth-generation ...

Did you ever mix dirt and water when you were playing outside? You made a paint. Did you draw shapes on the ground with your muddy hands? You made a painting. Long ago, artists made their own paints ...

It takes intense pressure and temperatures north of 2,000 degrees for a diamond to form deep within the Earth. But these days, there’s another way to create a diamond: in a lab, where a diamond can go ...

Diamonds are made out of carbon — highly organized carbon, that is. Geologists are still guessing how diamonds formed in the Earth from 1 billion to 3 billion years ago.