From the lightbulb to the airplane, to medical breakthroughs and the internet age, the past 250 years have been defined by ...

The breakthrough is often credited to Scottish inventor John Logie Baird—but the real history is far more complicated and collaborative. John Logie Baird with his transmitting station on March 19, ...

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Unless you worked for Ford’s plastics, paint and vinyls division in the 1980s, you probably don’t know the name Jim Moylan. But you might well know the idea that made this unknown engineer who ...

Honour Social Innovators Too: Sudha Murty Cites QR Code Inventor's Example Sudha Murty highlighted how innovations like the idli grinder have transformed lives, particularly those of women, yet their ...

It isn’t hard to think that Jeff Bezos left his role as Amazon.com’s CEO to enjoy a slower life filled with yachting and celebrity parties. But he would most certainly object to that characterization.

A novel scientific discovery can catapult a researcher from the bench to being an entrepreneur. Here, Greta Faccio shares considerations for next steps in commercialising an invention Scientists deal ...

Roberto "Loli" Linguanotto, the creator of one of the most cherished Italian desserts of all time, has died at the age of 81. Renowned restaurant Le Beccherie, located in northeastern Italy, confirmed ...

In addition to being one of the most fun words to say—and hardest to spell—in English, “onomatopoeia” probably calls to mind a whole bunch of silly, fun words. Onomatopoeia is the process of creating ...

One of the things that we’re working on right now at MIT is a tool that will help all kinds of people to create more applications based on the new technology that we have. There’s so much coming out ...

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