"I wanted to create a new tip for a cane that would enhance traction and provide added fun and style," said an inventor, from Tooele, Utah, "so I invented THE CUTE BOOT. My design could feel like a ...

“USA250: The Story of the World’s Greatest Economy” is a yearlong WSJ series examining America’s first 250 years. Read more about it from Editor in Chief Emma Tucker. Technology and entertainment in ...

The history of human progress is usually defined by brilliant minds solving the world’s most pressing issues, but sometimes, that creative spark lands on something entirely unnecessary. We live in a ...

Long before Europe saw its first book or compass, China had already invented paper, movable type printing, gunpowder, and directional tools. Known as the Four Great Inventions, these breakthroughs ...

While working as an engineer at Tesla, Niccolo Cymbalist never planned to start a business. But he’d been considering an idea for new technology—an autonomous, wind-powered cargo ship. Then, while on ...

The mid-20th century was a wild frontier of innovation where inventors weren’t just trying to solve problems, they were trying, somehow, to reinvent the way we lived. Some of these inventions came up ...

In 2005, physicists David Frame and Myles Allen were on their way to a scientific conference in Exeter, UK, and had been, in Frame’s words, “fiddling about” with a climate model to prepare for their ...

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 ...

A new device cuts down the time it takes to harvest water from the atmosphere from days to minutes, MIT researchers say. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

On Nov. 28, 2025, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued new examination guidance clarifying inventorship standards for artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted inventions. This ...

Joseph Drayton, Alan Teran Ph.D. The Federal government is accelerating AI‑enabled innovation by launching the Genesis Mission, a sweeping national initiative to accelerate scientific discovery using ...

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