Otto Rohwedder gave the world an innovation by which all others are compared. Rohwedder, a native of Davenport, Iowa, invented sliced bread. It’s the greatest thing since … Well, it’s the greatest ...

The Florida Python Challenge brings out a fascinating cast of characters, all captured by the director Xander Robin’s camera.

The film looks at the early life of Faraday, whose discoveries helped shape the modern world, and looks at how religious ...

A recent patent awarded to a team of researchers from National Institute of Technology (NIT)-Rourkela may come out handy in checking food adulteration and measuring the quality for the consumers.

A report in the New York Times claims to have identified the person who goes by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of bitcoin and one of the richest people on earth. However, the crypto ...

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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, ...

Burt Meyer, who invented toys like Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots, Lite-Brite and MouseTrap in the 1960s that delighted generations of children, has died. He was 99. Meyer’s creations arrived in the postwar ...

It isn’t hard to think that Jeff Bezos left his role as Amazon.com’s CEO to enjoy a slower life filled with yachting and celebrity parties. But he would most certainly object to that characterization.