Today, we celebrate the towering life and legacy of Benjamin Franklin—printer and philosopher, inventor and diplomat, public servant and patriot, and one ...

Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a ...

Engineers reinvent the 5,000-year-old gear using fluids instead of solid teeth.

Humans have been scouring the sky for alien life for centuries, and we’ve had, let’s face it, little success. Proposed ...

Professional mathematicians have been stunned by the progress amateurs have made in solving long-standing problems with the assistance of AI tools, and say it could lead to a new way of doing mathemat ...

A team of New York University scientists has created a gear mechanism that relies on fluids to generate rotation. The ...

Subscribe or Fortnite Kid will crank 90s on you! Hey there! I'm Hew Moran, a content creator who combines my passion for gaming, YouTube, and comedy into skits you’ll find hilariously relatable. On my ...

Today, when NCERT textbooks assert that Brahmagupta and Bhaskaracharya developed algebra independently and before Arab ...

At first glance, there was nothing out of the ordinary about Saturday’s wind forecast for Camas Prairie, Idaho. “Hold onto ...

James Moylan, who thought up the little arrow on your gas gauge that tells you what side of the car your fuel filler sits, has passed away. Moylan was a Ford interior trim designer who came up with ...

The origins of nuclear power are complicated because it wasn't discovered by a single person. Nuclear power is a product of many scientists and engineers who worked across generations and borders.

When people name the most important inventions in history, light bulbs are usually on the list. They were much safer than earlier light sources, and they made more activities, for both work and play, ...