ATLANTA — Engineer and entrepreneur Dr. Lonnie Johnson created the billion-dollar toy that became a staple of childhood summers—but that success was only the beginning. From growing up in the ...

A group of fourth graders at Brecknock Elementary School have turned a class project into a state title. The students recently won first place at the PA Invention Convention, earning a trip to compete ...

A conversation with Kwame Anthony Appiah about the religious origins of social theory and his recent book Captive Gods. The philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah’s latest book, Captive Gods: Religion and ...

The breakthrough is often credited to Scottish inventor John Logie Baird—but the real history is far more complicated and collaborative. John Logie Baird with his transmitting station on March 19, ...

Civilisations name their ages after materials. In school, we learn about the Stone Age, the Bronze Age – and we are currently in a silicon age characterised by computers and phones. What might define ...

In 2005, physicists David Frame and Myles Allen were on their way to a scientific conference in Exeter, UK, and had been, in Frame’s words, “fiddling about” with a climate model to prepare for their ...

Ah, the yellow light. You know, that signal that is supposed to let you know to slow down as you approach the intersection, but makes you speed up instead? You probably take it for granted, but ...

Unless you worked for Ford’s plastics, paint and vinyls division in the 1980s, you probably don’t know the name Jim Moylan. But you might well know the idea that made this unknown engineer who ...

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 ...

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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.