Across cultures, early spring is a time to let loose and play pranks—but historians can’t agree on who invented the custom of ...

Hassabis acknowledges the setbacks, and yet he keeps racing forward. His faith in governance mechanisms now shattered, he has ...

In sports, the instant replay was invented and first used by Tony Verna on the Dec. 7, 1963, broadcast of the Army-Navy ...

A man has been found guilty of the manslaughter of a woman whose body was dumped in a woodland grave, but has been cleared of ...

Aidan Grainger, who holds the UK national record for solving the 3x3x3 Rubik cube in the quickest time, was challenged to ...

The thermometer doesn't always tell us how cold it feels outside. An Erie man came up with a formula that does. Wind chill, or how cold it actually feels based on the combined intensity of cold and ...

Ah, the yellow light. You know, that signal that is supposed to let you know to slow down as you approach the intersection, but makes you speed up instead? You probably take it for granted, but ...

James Moylan, who thought up the little arrow on your gas gauge that tells you what side of the car your fuel filler sits, has passed away. Moylan was a Ford interior trim designer who came up with ...

The origins of nuclear power are complicated because it wasn't discovered by a single person. Nuclear power is a product of many scientists and engineers who worked across generations and borders.

When people name the most important inventions in history, light bulbs are usually on the list. They were much safer than earlier light sources, and they made more activities, for both work and play, ...

Burt Meyer, who invented toys like Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots, Lite-Brite and Mouse Trap in the 1960s that delighted generations of children, has died. He was 99. Meyer's creations arrived in the ...

In the summer of 1956, a group of academics—now we’d call them computer scientists but there was no such thing then—met on Dartmouth College campus in New Hampshire to discuss how to make machines ...