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.

Kevin Tang is an eighth-grader in California who won $25,000 and the title of “America’s Top Young Scientist” for his science ...

New at the California Science Center the exhibition “Leonardo Da Vinci: Inventor. Artist. Dreamer.” The exhibition features 30 of Leonardo da Vinci’s (1452-1519) genius inventions each built by ...

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

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

Jeremy Gilmour wants to invent an alternative to an electric car. “I’m thinking a hydrocar, it’s the most challenging thing ever,” Gilmour said during a break from Camp Invention at Aberdeen High ...

Last week in Manhattan, they laid the cornerstone of a new cinema-film exchange, a place where the commercial envoys of millions of people will go to buy or rent for them the latest articles in ...

Below is a portion of Inverse’s interview with Ayah Bdeir, the founder and CEO of littleBits. Bdeir is on a mission to use her tiny, colorful blocks — which can be combined to create sophisticated ...