On Oct. 3, 1950, three scientists at Bell Labs in New Jersey received a U.S. patent for what would become one of the most important inventions of the 20th century — the transistor. John Bardeen, ...

Flashes of light seen in the sky in old astronomical photographs may reveal the presence of reflective, satellite-like ...

When military planners built the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE), a computer-based command and control system to thwart potential bombing attacks by the former Soviet Union, they had no idea ...

Coming after World War II, the 1950s finally allowed people to take a sigh of relief as they began recovering from years of economic decline, conflicts, and battles. It was a period characterized by ...