Many "modern" inventions actually have precedents dating back more than 1000 years, to ancient Greek and Roman times.

It’s easy to take these mainstays for granted.

A retinal implant invented by a Stanford scientist is restoring limited vision to people with advanced macular degeneration, helping some read and recognize faces again.

IBM's NanoStack architecture has led to transistors that deliver 50% better performance and 70% less energy versus today's ...

The United States has spent its quarter millennium of existence creating tools that reshaped the modern world. As the country ...

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

Photos and videos of Americans who put up with record heat and rain to celebrate the nation's 250th birthday with massive ...

Every morning, millions of Americans engage in a quiet, collective ritual. We wake up, often pull a smartphone from our ...

A team of researchers put out information about a fake disease, and A.I.-powered chatbots fell for it. Image by freepik Many people turn to the internet for health advice. And now, with artificial ...

Inventions That Have Been Lost to Time Throughout history, humanity has created countless inventions that have shaped the ...

The Simulmatics Corporation opened for business on February 18, 1959, in an office rented by Edward L. Greenfield, the company’s thirty-one-year-old president, on an upper floor of a building at the ...

Trump griped about his failure to win a Nobel Peace Prize during a Freedom 250 speech — obviously not counting the prize he ...