Education technology has a history of failure. It will take years — and a lot of humility, experimentation and assessment — ...

On Oct. 3, 1950, three Bell Labs scientists received a patent for a "three-electrode circuit element" that would usher in the transistor age and the era of modern computing.

Australia has a long history of innovators, with some of the world’s most impactful inventions being created Down Under.

We use countless everyday items without giving much thought to how they came to be. Most of us assume these products were ...

Beneath the mosaic floors of Roman villas, an ingenious system of underfloor heating transformed warmth into a mark of power ...

Good news for dads everywhere! The History Channel is reviving one of its longest running and most popular shows, Modern ...

English poet Musical sounds exist in time and the time is always now. It doesn’t matter whether the music is spontaneously ...

Surekha Davies is a British historian of science and the author of Humans: A Monstrous History (University of California ...

Nowadays, you can find entire aisles of beauty products in any drugstore, including lotions that promise youth in a bottle, ...

They were used to scare away evil spirits, large animals. See how fireworks were born, and why we might want to replace them ...

While the Song dynasty saw huge advancements in culture, commerce and technology, it also gave rise to the horrific practice ...