The big thinkers at Aperture highlight weird inventions that have changed humanity forever.

From penicillin and anesthesia to saccharin and silly putty, chance played a major role in some of the world's great ...

“Necessity is the mother of invention,” and in the kitchen, that’s especially true. From ancient tools to modern gadgets, simple innovations have profoundly shaped our food culture. These aren’t your ...

From spaghetti forks to massage helmets, Stacker compiled are some of the strangest inventions of the last couple hundred ...

Professor of History, Department of History & Welsh History, Aberystwyth University “Mr Watson, come here. I want to see you.” Hardly momentous words, but their implications were enormous. Spoken by ...

Many of the daily items we use today are the result of decades of research, perseverance and good 'ole trial and error. For ages, inventors have sought to improve our ...

Alexander Graham Bell was not the only person trying to invent the telephone. But 150 years ago, he won the race – just – and the rest is history.

Beulah Louise Henry was just nine years old when she came up with her first invention in 1896, a device that allowed a man to ...

Listen to leading voices in Silicon Valley, and you might come to believe that “solving intelligence” is sufficient to “solve ...

Matthew Lynn is a financial columnist and author. He writes for the Daily Telegraph and the Spectator in London. Over the last two decades, China has pumped huge amounts of money into owning the world ...

The showdown between the Pentagon and Anthropic is a window into how unprepared we are for the questions we are facing.

The patent for the telephone turns 150 today, the first call was made three days later on March 10, 1876. Before the phone: One of the earliest ways to communicate outside of mail was the telegraph, ...