A discarded golf-cart wheel and a piece of scrap box tubing have earned a New York highway department national recognition.

The “natural kiln hypothesis” argues that intense wildfires taught prehistoric humans that fire hardened clay—and that this ...

What is the purpose of patenting an invention? Is it a legal formality akin to paperwork? A box to check? No. Intellectual property is a tool to transform a new idea into a product or a service by ...

A young engineer’s fix for a humidity problem at a 1902 Brooklyn printing plant led to an invention that reshaped where ...

Whether a film is a documentary or a fictional drama, all modern cinema is in a sense docu-fictional, because most viewers know that a documentary is carefully crafted to yield a narrative and that ...

Director and co-writer/star draw from autobiography for a captivating, lo-fi, meta dramedy. This is thankfully not the case with “Invention,” a compact, compelling and warm fiction and documentary ...

The invention of the airplane by Wilbur and Orville Wright is one of the great stories in American history. The Wright brothers’ invention not only solved a long-studied technical problem, but also ...

IP, the developer of appia-engine, I have decided to share how to use each feature by trying them out myself. I will create a ...

Unlike technologies such as the phonograph or the safety pin, the internet has no single “inventor.” Instead, it has evolved over time. The internet got its start in the United States in the late ...