Medical device pioneer Dr. Tom Fogarty — mentor and inventor of the balloon catheter and other tools — has died at the age of ...

Here are five bands who quietly (or not so quietly) invented entire subgenres without ever meaning to. When we look back on music history, genres often get framed around big moments and clearly ...

The origins of nuclear power are complicated because it wasn't discovered by a single person. Nuclear power is a product of many scientists and engineers who worked across generations and borders.

When people name the most important inventions in history, light bulbs are usually on the list. They were much safer than earlier light sources, and they made more activities, for both work and play, ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. For many, iRobot’s Roomba robot vacuum was their first experience with a home robot. When I got my Roomba in ...

Kwanzaa is a nonreligious, secular holiday that is mainly celebrated in North America and the Caribbean. What does Kwanzaa mean in Swahili? The word Kwanzaa is derived from the the last word of the ...

Hardly a modern invention, the electric car has a history tracing back all the way to the mid-1800s. Interest in technology has boomeranged over the years based on both consumer trends and economic ...

Burt Meyer, who invented toys like Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots, Lite-Brite and Mouse Trap in the 1960s that delighted generations of children, has died. He was 99. Meyer's creations arrived in the ...

A handful of researchers spread across American universities built the backbone of the internet long before most people even knew what a computer network was. They created packet switching, ...

Until recently the Arcement family wondered how they were going to move thousands of boxes of unsold board games filling their garage. Now they’re just trying to keep up with demand. What changed?

In the summer of 1956, a group of academics—now we’d call them computer scientists but there was no such thing then—met on Dartmouth College campus in New Hampshire to discuss how to make machines ...

The first thing to understand about antifa is that it is not real. Yes, as a journalist, I’m obligated to offer some throat-clearing nuance: There is a thing called antifa that has existed for a long ...