Let's go back to the Middle Ages to look at some dishes people still enjoy today. Find out if one of your favorite meals is ...

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The medieval period often gets painted as a thousand years of darkness, filth, and ignorance. Popular culture loves to show us dirty peasants wallowing in mud, superstitious fools who thought the ...

The medieval period saw the rise of many new inventions all around the world. Emerging out of the so-called Dark Ages, many prominent scholars and learned minds came up with new inventions to make the ...

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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. That is, economic growth was pretty flat for millennia, and then, around ...

TIME has revealed its 25th annual list of the Best Inventions featuring 300 innovations and 100 special mentions. TIME’s editors: “Across a quarter century, the pace of innovation has only accelerated ...

I respect your opinion but i still think they are lowering the bar almost to the ground. At the very least, they are being pretentious by not simply calling this a list of "best products." saying ...

A remarkable discovery of coins was made by a private individual digging for worms near their summer house in Sweden. The find includes up to 20,000 coins from the Early Middle Ages, along with other ...

A new study by ESMT Berlin and Yale School of Management finds that patents in fuzzy, overlapping categories are significantly more likely to trigger breakthrough innovations and create lasting ...

TL;DR: NVIDIA's DGX Spark, named TIME's Best Invention of 2025, is a compact desktop AI supercomputer delivering 1 petaFLOP performance with the GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip. Designed for AI ...

TIME’s annual round-up of show-stopping inventions reads like a vision from the future. Advanced AI models join household robots alongside a moon lander and a desalination plant on the 300-invention ...