Have you ever watched a commercial for a successful product and thought to yourself: "I should have thought of that!" Some of history's most successful ideas and inventions are simple, practical ...

You know that feeling when you try to do a good thing and then accidentally scorch the entire planet? Yeah, the future can be terrifying. Lasers. Artificial intelligence. Nanotechnology. Soon, science ...

The world would be in shambles without us. Karl Nesser may have invented the long-term perm in 1905, but it was Marjorie Joyner, one of Walker’s mentees and the first black woman to graduate from a ...

The 1980s are forever immortalized in popular culture as an era of primitive digitization, with technological revolutions spanning everything from the artificial heart to the Space Shuttle. The ...

The word “invention” ignites thoughts of Leo da Vinci pouring over a flying machine sketch, Edison pacing the floor of his New Jersey workshop, and maybe that one Simpsons episode. But probably not ...

The people from this great African nation are also known to excel when exposed to the right environment and have made great impact in the world through art and music. Born in Nigeria, Philip Emeagwali ...

(via SciShow) When you imagine the energy of the future, solar power is probably in the picture – but in recent years, less than 2% of the world’s electricity has come from solar power. Here are 5 new ...