Traffic lights today are controlled by computers and other purpose-built systems, but what did people do before computers ...

I’ve always found patents fascinating. Not just because they protect ideas but because they often reveal the odd, innovative, ...

Roberts, who came up with the idea for the frozen burrito not long after graduating from high school, went on to do quite ...

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

Composer Simon Franglen revealed that he invented some instruments that were used in his score for James Cameron's Avatar: ...

Kevin Tang is an eighth-grader in California who won $25,000 and the title of “America’s Top Young Scientist” for his science ...

Persy Arcement invented Drizzle to stave off boredom during Covid. Now the 14-year-old is on the cusp of moguldom.

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) may change how we invent: many envision a collaborative approach between human inventors and AI systems that develop novel solutions to problems together. Such ...

The very first humans millions of years ago may have been inventors, according to a discovery in northwest Kenya. Researchers ...

Increasingly, scientific authors have been including disclaimers in publications relating to the use of Large Language Models ...