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

Lungpacer Medical, a Canadian innovation success story, began as a labour of love for both its inventor and its first major business partner. Simon Fraser University (SFU) biomedical physiology and ...

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 ...

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.

Another team of students won second place for their device that prevents pump needles from breaking or getting lost.

Sounding. Into Manhattan steamed the French liner Paris, bearing storm scars, notables, a squad of German engineers and a new German device for deep-sea sounding with which the engineers had ...