The history of human writing is being rewritten after archaeologists found the origins of words engraved on 6,000-year-old ...

If you’re curious about what was invented the year you were born, RS Components compiled a fascinating list, which we’re ...

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Do Try This at Home! Try your hand at these fun activities from the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation Explore, Discover, Learn: Back to School with the Smithsonian Our ...

Innoskate research and public festivals spark the imaginations of young people through skate demonstrations, discussions with skaters and inventors, films, hands-on invention educational activities, ...

Invention services include product researching, patentability assessments, and marketing and patent guidance. FSBI operates an online marketplace for inventors to sell and market products to ...

Two researchers who independently developed the neodymium magnet — used in everything from hard disk drives to automobiles — have been awarded the 44th Honda Prize. In 1982, two researchers ...

Hundreds of commenters would debate the merits of whatever you’d created or published, pick fights with you and each other about it, and make you feel like the internet’s main character. At least for ...

A 134-year-old talking doll invented by Thomas Edison managed to spook social media users — who called it “horrifying” and “the stuff of nightmares.” Before Halloween, the National Park ...

Many theories have tried to explain when and where the wheel and axle were first invented. A new study examines a relatively recent theory that miners in the Carpathian Mountains created the first ...

Except for the parts that are completely made up." So begins every episode of Netflix's long-awaited new series Inventing Anna, about fraudster Anna Delvey, aka Anna Sorokin. Twenty-something Anna ...

"We were able to invent a new technology that can quickly and accurately establish if someone is having a heart attack." The proof-of-concept work, which can be modified to detect infectious ...