Look around your home right now. That roll of duct tape in your junk drawer, the microwave humming in your kitchen, even the GPS guiding your daily commute — they all share a surprising common origin.

In the seclusion of the kitchen, the driver’s seat, or the workshop, women have consistently transformed their frustration into ingenuity. While these inventions may not have been groundbreaking or ...

Beulah Louise Henry was just nine years old when she came up with her first invention in 1896, a device that allowed a man to tip his hat without ever putting down his newspaper. By her death in 1973, ...

History has a strange habit of forgetting its own brilliance. Civilizations rose, fell, and took entire libraries of ...

Rochester, once known as 'Flour City,' has a rich history of iconic food and beverage brands that shaped American kitchens.

The first billionaire in America was John D. Rockefeller — arguably America’s greatest business mind. As the owner of Standard Oil in the early 20th century, he brought access to cheap energy to the ...

Explore 40 years of PCR history, from Kary Mullis’s invention story to the rise of digital PCR and how it revolutionized ...

Thanks to the genius of people like Musk, in a few years, each of us will have our own robot who will do our bidding.

The bacteriologist Alexander Fleming is recalled as one of the brightest minds in the history of science. TIME once called him “a short (5 ft. 7 in.), gentle, retiring Scot with somewhat dreamy blue ...

Exploring the impact and controversy of billionaires and the rise of trillionaires like Elon Musk.

The history of warfare stretches back thousands of years. One of the earliest recorded conflicts took place around 2700 B.C., ...

Bell Labs also developed some of the rocket technology that launched the satellite, a byproduct of an antiballistic missile ...