Sometimes, you stumble upon an invention that makes you wonder, "How did they even think of this back then?" Some ideas were way ahead of their time, only to be forgotten or overshadowed by newer ...

By studying the natural world, scientists find blueprints for innovations that can improve human lives—in the genes of a ...

When you're inventing the next big thing, it's good to ask yourself if your invention will cause more harm than good. Plenty of inventors have created things that they thought would be a net positive ...

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Through their amazing discoveries and contributions, many great minds have changed the world and the way we look at our reality.

Two of NASA's giants of cosmic discovery, including a rover that launched from Florida, have been named among Time's best inventions since 2000.

NASA's Webb space telescope (Hubble's successor) and Mars rover Curiosity have been included in Time magazine's list of the best inventions since 2000.

For decades, invention promotion companies have occupied an uneasy space between entrepreneurial aspiration and consumer ...

Tech companies are claiming machines more intelligent than us and capable of having their own agendas are just around the ...

Sometimes we take things we have around for granted. Basically, we assume that this one useful thing we always have available will be like this whenever we travel around the world. And then we learn ...

The Greenland shark can live up to 500 years. The kind of longevity that probably has something to do with its home: cold, ...

I spent more than a decade leading the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH’s) technology transfer office, which negotiated agreements with private-sector firms to turn NIH scientists’ lab ...