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

As the country celebrates its 250th birthday, here are five tools invented within its borders that completely transformed how ...

New archaeology has uncovered everything from musket balls to wig curlers at the site of the Battle of Bunker Hill, the first ...

Together, they form Helios, a new quantum computer built by the British-American company Quantinuum. Quantum computers use ...

Generations of children have learned how pioneers traveled the Oregon Trail, not in textbooks but on a video game with ...

A blue plaque has been unveiled marking the creation of a computer in 1949 which set the standards for how today's computers are still used. The Electronic Delay Storage Automatic ...

The personal computers of today are slick and savvy, performing countless operations seemingly at ease. Given the way in which technology has progressed, it seems unfathomable that early computers ...

Douglas Engelbart invented the computer mouse in 1964 at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), which is now called SRI International. His one of the colleague Bill English, who was the chief engineer ...

You don't often hear about famous people who work in entertainment also excelling in something like medicine. The late Paul Winchell – a master ventriloquist, comedian, and actor who flourished mostly ...

Smart phones have been regarded as one of the most significant innovations of our time and they have changed the way we communicate, do our jobs, and access information. Before the advent of ...

The country wants to become a global leader in brain implants. Strong government support is expected to help accelerate that process. One day last October, sitting in the courtyard of his house in ...

Here’s what we found suggesting that Adam Back invented Bitcoin. By John Carreyrou With Dylan Freedman It has been 17 years since a nine-page white paper appeared in an obscure corner of the internet ...