Imagine what life would be like without your phone, the internet, or even something as simple as electricity. It’s hard to ...

From the 'Titan' submersible to the 'Titanic' ocean liner, these innovations backfired with catastrophic consequences Zoey Lyttle is a Society & Culture Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She covers ...

The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has named seven Case Western Reserve University researchers to its 2024 class of senior members, an honor that recognizes their “remarkable innovation-producing ...

(Note: Data compiled and cross-verified from multiple historical and academic sources, including the Smithsonian Institution archives, Encyclopedia Britannica, and World History Encyclopedia for ...

On a moving train in the 1870s, the toilet bowl in the restroom was open to the tracks below, letting in gusts of air as well as dust and cinders from the road bed. “The annoyance,” wrote African ...

Three Purdue University faculty members, including two from the College of Engineering and one from the College of Veterinary Medicine, have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 2.8 million Americans contractantibiotic-resistant bacterial infections each year, and approximately 35,000 of those infections ...

There was a TV show called "Where Are They Now?" that focused on the current lives of former celebrities. We take the opposite approach by revealing the jobs that five inventors had before they became ...

The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has released the 2024 Top 100 Worldwide Universities Granted U.S. Utility Patents List. Released annually by the Academy since 2013, the Top 100 Worldwide ...

Two Purdue University engineering faculty members, one with a joint appointment in the College of Veterinary Medicine, have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), the ...

The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has named seven Case Western Reserve University researchers to its 2024 class of senior members, an honor that recognizes their “remarkable innovation-producing ...