On International Women’s Day, we recognize and celebrate the incredible contributions of women throughout history. Women have ...

The trampoline was invented by gymnast George Nissen of Cedar Rapids. Sixteen-year-old Nissen was inspired to create the ...

long before most of the technologies necessary to build it were even invented. That design was the Dynabook, and its author was computer scientist Alan Kay. Its intended audience was children.

At the beginning of the 20th century, when the transistor had not yet been invented, computers were analogue and made up of large mechanical gears. They were nothing like the electronic equipment ...

Solids. Liquids. Gases. Since grade school, people have been told these classical states of matter define the universe.

Taschen has published a new book called The Computer, which traces the evolution of machines in computer history. Written by German author and graphic designer Jens Müller and edited by Brazilian ...

"I wanted to create a hands-free holder for use with a portable gaming system or tablet computer," said an inventor, from ...