In 2000 TIME’s editors sat down to select three inventions of the year, one each in consumer technology, medical science, and ...

On Oct. 3, 1950, three Bell Labs scientists received a patent for a "three-electrode circuit element" that would usher in the ...

The over 7,000 square foot exhibition is organized around da Vinci's study of nature's four elements: earth with cranes and a ...

New at the California Science Center the exhibition “Leonardo Da Vinci: Inventor. Artist. Dreamer.” The exhibition features 30 of Leonardo da Vinci’s (1452-1519) genius inventions each built by ...

The World Bank estimates that around one billion people worldwide don’t have official proof of identity. Without legal identity verification, opening bank accounts, voting, and even buying a cell ...

Science geeks and computer nerds rock. It’s a message that’s generating a lot of buzz at the University of Virginia. “I want to be the next Steve Jobs,” UVa computer science student Josh Whelan smiled ...

Jeremy Gilmour wants to invent an alternative to an electric car. “I’m thinking a hydrocar, it’s the most challenging thing ever,” Gilmour said during a break from Camp Invention at Aberdeen High ...

Look out for the next generation of science entrepreneurs. Teams from two Oregon high schools — Summit High School in Bend and Philomath High School — showed off at a March science fair. Share this ...

Below is a portion of Inverse’s interview with Ayah Bdeir, the founder and CEO of littleBits. Bdeir is on a mission to use her tiny, colorful blocks — which can be combined to create sophisticated ...

As a boy growing up in the United Kingdom, my learning often began once school was dismissed. On any given day, I could be found disassembling machines—stripping lawn mowers down to parts, then ...