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.

Explore the history of modern home essentials, from ovens and microwaves to TVs and air conditioning, and see how they ...

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

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

Happy AMERICA 250!!! In honor of this great holiday I will be ranking the top 25 tech inventions the United States has produced! While doing research for this article I realized the United States had ...

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

Alan Turing was one of the most influential British figures of the 20th century. In 1936, Turing invented the computer as part of his attempt to solve a fiendish puzzle known as 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 ...

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 ...

Every decade in modern history has had that one invention that defines the era. So much so, in fact, it can be pretty surprising to learn that an iconic piece of tech actually pre-dates the time ...

The Minoan moulds of Palaikastro may have been used to create the First Portable Eclipse Calculator. Credit: Olaf Tausch / CC BY 3.0 Though its original name has vanished from historical records, the ...