Toilet paper holders have had roughly the same design since they were patented in the 1890s, but this device puts a more ...

Joseph Weizenbaum realized that programs like his Eliza chatbot could "induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal ...

France's main Braille publisher is in financial crisis after a bold decision to sell its embossed books for the same price as standard ones. Its future raises the broader question of whether printed ...

A team of New York University scientists has created a gear mechanism that relies on fluids to generate rotation. The ...

Traditional RFID tags can’t be recycled. And those small tags add up: more than 40 billion RFID tags are made for single-use, ...

Artist, inventor and anatomist Leonardo da Vinci was the definition of a Renaissance man — and scientists are aiming to ...

JOHN WALKER’S claim to fame as the man who invented the match has all but been extinguished over the passing of the centuries, but this ...

One hundred and fifty years ago this week, the St Helens Newspaper published an article hailing a new invention, writes Stephen Wainwright.

A novel biochemical analysis of a Renaissance medical text has successfully recovered centuries-old proteins that might be ...

Our district and circuit courts are still operating as if “Al Gore” never invented “the internets." Even though ...

In different passage, Aulus tells us about some bookstalls he came across when he arrived by ship at the port of Brundisium ...

Artist, inventor and anatomist Leonardo da Vinci was the definition of a Renaissance man — and scientists are aiming to ...