A new podcast from Lost Women of Science tells the story of Katharine Burr Blodgett, who invented nonreflective glass while working at General Electric, but who is often forgotten.

As a franchise, Star Trek has always faced an interesting creative paradox: it must balance the human storytelling of the ...

On November 21, 1916, pilot and inventor Lawrence Sperry was flying over Long Island’s Great South Bay with his student ...

The contributions of many Black women inventors have often been overlooked or underrepresented in historical narratives.

The debate over who truly invented the airplane centers on two names: the Wright brothers and Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont. In 1906, Santos-Dumont publicly flew his 14-bis aircraft in Paris ...

If you’ve ever flipped a light switch or used your favorite cordless gadget, odds are you owe Nikola Tesla a great debt of ...

It’s hard to imagine now, but people managed disagreements long before search engines existed. If two friends argued about who starred in a movie, what year an event happened, or whether carrots ...

On March 10, 1876 Alexander Graham Bell revolutionized the way we communicate when the first discernible human voice traveled over wire from one person to another.

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

In this op-ed, Global CX leader Katja Forbes explores how AI agents are quietly becoming the new decision-makers in the purchasing funnel – and why traditional marketing tactics built for human ...

Frances Arnold's game-changing technique of "directed evolution" creates enzymes with unusual capabilities. Her own evolution made it possible.