The modern-day ironing board was invented by Sarah Boone, who took the original clunky design and transformed it into a sleek ...

Other female inventors followed Anderson, including Charlotte Bridgewood, the purported inventor of the first ...

Anita Chandran reviews The Body Digital: a Brief History of Humans and Machines from Cuckoo Clocks to ChatGPT by Vanessa ...

Today, we celebrate the revolutionary life and legacy of Alexander Graham Bell, a titan of ingenuity whose groundbreaking invention connected the world ...

Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the ...

Women have changed the way we travel, create and develop new inventions. Gender biases of the past prevented them from ...

Can we build the structures of trust and reliability early enough to allow innovation to accelerate to new heights, without ...

Throughout the 20th century, each decade had its own unique set of inventions that left their mark on history. Curious about ...

From the fire extinguisher to caller IDs, many inventions people use daily trace back to African American innovators. That was the message delivered on Wednesday, Feb. 25, during a Black History Month ...

Two centuries ago, New York City was a tangled collection of streets on the narrowing southern end of Manhattan island. Expansion pointed only one way, and in 1807 a three-person team proposed it be ...

How did the United States overtake Europe to become the world's technological leader within just a few decades? A new study by researcher Frank Neffke from the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) and ...

Tech leaders are beginning to worry about the public’s underwhelming enthusiasm for their plans to remake the world with artificial intelligence. Will that burst the bubble?