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

For generations, scientists believed that the West Coast’s two great earthquake engines — the Cascadia subduction zone and the San Andreas fault — operated on separate geologic stages. One dives, one ...

All of us experienced the most unexpected events. Empty streets in large cities, social distancing, and the dawn of digital ...

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

So, while exploring GITEX Global, and Expand North Star – one of the world’s largest technology and artificial intelligence (AI) expos and its sister start-up conference in Dubai – we went hunting for ...

But this is not always the case! Sometimes the history of inventions goes back far further than we would ever guess. Take a ...

On Oct. 3, 1950, three scientists at Bell Labs in New Jersey received a U.S. patent for what would become one of the most important inventions of the 20th century — the transistor. John Bardeen, ...

Digital mapping services have changed how people navigate the physical world, steering traffic to the “best route” according to intricate algorithms. In 2007, Google added something new: photos of ...