Hard-wearing inventions of the 19th century, Lincrusta and Anaglypta could be made to resemble leather, plaster, and other ...

Driving the (old) news: On Nov. 4, 1862, Richard Gatling received his first patent for the Gatling Gun, a hand-cranked, ...

From yellow pencils to three-ring binders, American students have their own school supply culture. This video explains how ...

WaterSense, a Polish invention that uses low‑cost paper sensors and artificial intelligence (AI) to track river health in ...

Researchers uncovered a 2.75–2.44 million-year-old site in Kenya showing that early humans maintained stone tool traditions for nearly 300,000 years despite extreme climate swings. The tools, ...

A recently published study suggests humans' creative inclinations go back much further than previously thought ...

Pennsylvania played a pivotal role in shaping America's news culture, setting the pace for daily journalism that continues ...

I n another blow to the image of Neanderthal as brutish troglodyte, we’ve identified the tools the ancient hominin used to ...

The 49-year-old Winkler resident is the inventor of a new kind of concave, the part on a combine that separates grain from ...

If you passed through New York’s iconic Times Square this past June and looked up from your smartphone, you would have seen ...

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