Left, a portion of the patent plan designed by Marie Van Brittan Brown and her husband Albert, right. Marie Van Brittan Brown and Albert L. Brown, courtesy U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; New York ...

OpenAI CEO founding member Andrej Karpathy speaks to an audience with his arms open © Michael Macor/The San Francisco Chronicle (Getty Images) It’s been over a ...

When filmmaking first emerged, the films were under one minute and captured the randomness of everyday life: babies eating, cats fighting, people falling. Today, people are still fascinated by the ...

Hydraulic telegraph, a fourth century BC invention of the ancient Greeks (reconstruction based on descriptions by Aeneas Tacticus and Polybius). Thessaloniki Technology Museum. Credit: ...

Every chef has their go-to kitchen tool. For Chris Cosentino, the former San Francisco chef behind Incanto and Cockscomb, it’s a stackable stainless-steel bacon press that he swears by. “I have two ...

You’ve heard the saying “as American as apple pie” a thousand times. Maybe even “as American as a hot dog,” but “as American as a chimichanga” deserves a spot in the lineup too, because that’s a ...

In December 2009, Bradley Burnam woke up to see a horrifying sight in the mirror. “This whole side of my head was black, and my ear was like twice its normal size and hot because it was infected,” he ...

Ultrasound has long been used for helping doctors see inside the body, but focused high frequency sound waves are offering new ways of targeting cancer. If Zhen Xu hadn't annoyed her lab mates, she ...

Julian Brown, a 21-year-old inventor from Atlanta, made headlines after powering a car with a fuel he created from plastic waste. He called it Plastoline. Brown’s goal was simple: to create an ...

Since Carlos Rodón joined the Yankees, Andy Pettitte has guided his fellow left-hander through a sometimes rocky first three seasons. In Game 3, the Yankees could use Rodón channelling Pettitte’s ...