invention

Commentary There are so many useless consumer products and services out there that it is impossible to keep up. For some reason, people keep buying them. Think of the gym ...

Wet your finger and run it around the rim of a wine glass. You get a note! A ...

If you’ve ever carried your groceries home in a paper bag, you can thank Margaret E. Knight. It ...

When the 1893 Columbian Exposition opened on the shores of Lake Michigan, visitors to the fair were treated ...

A research team led by the University of Adelaide has helped develop a groundbreaking new device that significantly ...

Researchers from the University of Queensland (UQ) are developing a new skin microbiopsy device that takes smaller skin ...

The U.S. patent law system once rewarded inventors for the telephone, the lightbulb, and the airplane. But some ...

Pause in your reading for just a moment and look around you. I’ll do the same. I’m sitting ...

Twelve-year-old Lydia Denton is advanced beyond her age when it comes to making an impact in the world. ...

A Portuguese entrepreneur claims that Chinese tech giant Huawei stole his 360-degree smartphone-attachable camera invention after he pitched ...

Have you ever thought about becoming a creative inventor? We've all seen those videos on Instagram and Facebook, ...

Mehrin Maisha is a 14-year-old new immigrant to the United States. An aspiring businesswoman, she invented a lamp ...

When a dream is more than just a dream ...

Did Edison's genius extend beyond the grave?

These 19th century inventions will blow you away.

Rare Chinese and Japanese bronze mirrors have the strange property of seeming both opaque and transparent at the ...

Russia's economy is highly dependent on the price of oil, as are a few other countries, such as ...

In June 2012, the New England Federal Credit Union in Williston, Vermont, received a vaguely worded letter from ...

Imagine you’re in an ancient temple, dimly lit by rays of sunlight peaking in. A worshipper lights a ...

In 350 B.C., mathematician and founding father of mechanics Archytas of Tarentum invented a wooden mechanical dove. "Archytas' ...

The first vending machine, invented in the 1st century A.D. by Heron (a.k.a. Hero of Alexandria), worked sort ...

The wheel (specifically as a means of transportation) was actually invented at a relatively late point of human ...

Although Charles "Chuck" Hull, the inventor of 3-D printing, would not call himself a futurist. His invention started ...

African wildlife photography at its most playful, the pint-sized meerkats treat the photographer like a big, strange-looking brother.

These ideas changed the world. Join us as we count down our picks for the top 10 inventions ...

Alex Chipana's drone was built on the cheap - a lot of it is made from recycled materials. ...

What's it like to lead a NASA project that could revolutionize our understanding of the universe? John Mather ...