Early traffic lights had only red and green, which unsurprisingly made intersections rather chaotic. Who invented the yellow ...

When Alexander Graham Bell died in 1922, he went down in history as the ‘inventor’ of a telecommunications system that forever changed the way we interact. When Matti Makkonen – AKA ‘the Father of SMS ...

In July 2025, a rumor spread online that a young inventor with 1.7 million social media followers had disappeared. Julian Brown, 21, of Georgia has purported to have created a low-cost, solar ...

Women earn approximately half the PhD awarded in this country, but they account for only about 12 percent of patented inventions. Some are working to change that. Even though about half of all Ph.D.s ...

Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and Nikola Tesla often dominate the conversation about history's most important inventors. However, there are so many others who helped shape our world, making it ...

A Singapore inventor of a space-saving door system wins a High Court lawsuit against rivals for passing off similar doors as his design. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

I bet most of our regular readers have, at some point, blown the mind of one of their non-gearhead friends by pointing out the little arrow in almost every modern fuel gauge that shows what side the ...

The The Inventor tells the story of the spectacular rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos. The startup duped people into investing in a blood testing technology which never completely worked.

Inventor James Dyson has talked about the importance of embracing "failure" in work and life. "I've always said mine is a life of failure," the British billionaire told The Wall Street Journal in an ...

Scientists deal with the new and surprising on an almost daily basis, and sometimes these discoveries can lead to inventions, such as a new molecule, process or an original device. Improvements, even ...

The UK Supreme Court unanimously ruled Wednesday that an “inventor” under the Patents Act 1977 must be a “natural person” and not artificial intelligence (AI). The Supreme Court heard the landmark ...

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