Hundreds of thousands of patents are issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for new inventions every year. Some of these creations, such as the lightbulb, personal computer, and automobile, ...

Looking through the rubble of ancient civilizations, archaeologists have uncovered inventions so sophisticated they challenge everything we think we know about technological progress. While we often ...

Throughout history, humanity has displayed a remarkable talent for getting things spectacularly wrong when it comes to innovation. We’ve dismissed world-changing inventions as “useless toys,” invested ...

Stacker has chronicled social, scientific, and business inventions that changed America over hundreds of years.

Our hatred of social media or of artificial intelligence is not some novel phenomenon, the new book “Techno-Negative” reminds ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Dynasphere, an electronically gas-driven monowheel vehicle, being tested on Brean Sands by its inventor, John Archibald Purves ...