From the moment fire was discovered, to the invention of the wheel, and much later the printing press, the industrial engine, and now artificial intelligence (AI), every technological advancement has ...

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From a classic snack to a life-saving medicine, here are some of the serendipitous inventions that have changed the world we ...

Eltville am Rhein invites visitors to slow down and stroll through history along the banks of the Rhine River.

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A group of Johns Hopkins University students put their invention skills to work and delivered by building a printer that can ...

A group of engineering students at Johns Hopkins University put their invention skills to work and delivered by building a ...

That is, unless you're the 1863 inventor of a new kind of printing press, William Buckley. By the middle of the 19th century, the printing press had been around for 400 years, and countless people ...

The founder of the screen-less health band company on his morning routine, parenting, and why you should be in competition ...

The official story is that Dr. James Naismith invented basketball in Springfield, Mass., in 1891. But what about the teenager tossing cabbages in upstate New York a year earlier?

It should probably come as no surprise to anyone that the images which we look at every day – whether printed or on a display – are simply illusions. That cat picture isn’t ...

Art and literature hint at past people’s psyches. Now computers can identify patterns in those cognitive fossils, but human expertise remains crucial.