If you graph the history of economic growth, it looks a lot like a hockey stick laid on the ground with its blade sticking up ...

Adelheid Voskuhl of the University of Pennsylvania will explore how engineers have shaped both machines and society in an upcoming Honors Mic lecture.

On Oct. 3, 1950, three Bell Labs scientists received a patent for a "three-electrode circuit element" that would usher in the transistor age and the era of modern computing.

Section 1. Purpose. The American story is one of boundless creativity and bold ambition, driven by an indomitable pioneering spirit that propels exploration and discovery. It is this spirit that ...

Scientific progress and technological innovation were the twin engines that powered the American century. The Manhattan Project fueled the atomic era. The Apollo Program won us the space race. The ...