History is full of military inventions that seem completely absurd—like bat bombs, exploding rats, or pigeon-guided missiles.

Certain inventions have dramatically transformed the way we live, communicate, and understand the world. Some groundbreaking ...

Illinois Gov. William Stratton, center, walks through a barrier on the new Northwest Expressway (later renamed the Kennedy ...

Marie Van Brittan Brown and her husband, Albert, filed for the patent in 1966 and received approval three years later.

Australia has a long history of innovators, with some of the world’s most impactful inventions being created Down Under.

English poet Musical sounds exist in time and the time is always now. It doesn’t matter whether the music is spontaneously ...

Education technology has a history of failure. It will take years — and a lot of humility, experimentation and assessment — ...

Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and California innovations and innovators will be featured on $1 coins the Mint will issue in 2026 ...

Surekha Davies is a British historian of science and the author of Humans: A Monstrous History (University of California ...

While the Song dynasty saw huge advancements in culture, commerce and technology, it also gave rise to the horrific practice ...

From the Greeks and the Romans to the Ottoman empire, the history of Sardis, Turkey, is one of persistent turnover. But its ...

On Oct. 9, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made a telephone call to his assistant a few miles away — the first demonstration of what would ultimately become a global telephone network.