Technologies that once required suspension of disbelief now sit in our pockets, operate in our hospitals, and dictate entire ...

We have selected for you 10 most important innovations, which, no doubt, will repeatedly prove themselves next year. If you are the author of the materials or the copyright owner of it, but your ...

Have you asked yourself how many usual things we have around us were actually accidental scientific discoveries and inventions made by mistake? There are many certainly, and here we will see some ...

I’ve been a Scientific American subscriber since I was 12 years old, and it helped shape the way I look at the world. SciAm ...

Lungpacer Medical, a Canadian innovation success story, began as a labour of love for both its inventor and its first major business partner.

Examine the detailed history of most any iconic scientific discovery or technological invention—the light bulb, the transistor, DNA, even the Internet—and you’ll find that the famous names ...

2024 UCSF scientists register 171 new scientific inventions in 2024 alone. Nearly 100 UCSF inventions were licensed to biotech firms to begin development in the same year. Image: An early 2012 ...

Looking back at history, how many scientific inventions end up doing more harm than good? In a new book, Paul Offit, MD, tells readers seven stories about when scientists got things very wrong.

Many Ancient Greek inventions, created many centuries ago, still play an incredibly large role in our daily lives today.

Some ancient cultures managed to develop some bafflingly complex and sophisticated inventions using techniques and knowledge that seemed to come out of nowhere, and in some cases weren't ...