Photographs by Jo Whaley for TIME; Inventions from left: On Cloudboom Strike LightSpray, Medical Microinstruments Symani Surgical System, Agility Robotics Digit holding Light Bio Firefly Petunias ...

In our recent national phenomena there is no other fact so significant, so startling, as the prodigious increase of inventions, both in their number and in their influence over business and daily ...

Innoskate research and public festivals spark the imaginations of young people through skate demonstrations, discussions with skaters and inventors, films, hands-on invention educational activities, ...

Investopedia / Kobus Louw Inventions like the spinning jenny and the water wheel transformed the way that goods were produced and energy was harnessed during the Industrial Revolution in Great ...

Every year for over two decades, TIME editors have highlighted the most impactful new products and ideas in TIME’s Best Inventions issue. To compile this year's list, we solicited nominations ...

44, Issue. 2, p. 287. Under French colonial rule, the region of the Maghreb emerged as distinct from two other geographical entities that, too, are colonial inventions: the Middle East and Africa. In ...

Germans have invented many things we couldn’t live without anymore. We’ve limited a very long list to our personal “TOP 40 Inventions, Discoveries and Breakthroughs”. We hope not to have missed the ...

The heart of the invention is a tiny chip with a groundbreaking nanostructured surface on which blood is tested. The chip's "metasurface" enhances electric and magnetic signals during Raman ...

Bloomberg / Getty Images World-changing inventions like the printing press, the radio, and the internet opened new ways for people to communicate and share knowledge. In many cases, blockchain ...

It's like giving your vehicle a superpower! Unfortunately, there's a catch to this incredible invention: while they're ...

A British scientist known as the “Godfather of AI” has won the Nobel Prize for physics – but has regrets about his invention.