The path to breakthrough innovation is paved with missteps, argues Linus OKORIEIn many organizations, mistakes and failures are treated as something to be avoided at all costs. Employees fear the ...

NASA have got big plans when it comes to long-duration human space travel but they also have a big problem needing solved. If ...

The U.S. patent system feels to me an awful lot like the Titanic right now. The Trump Administration is withdrawing employment offers to patent examiners and firing examiners still within their ...

Do you know who Walter Hunt was? I am guessing you probably do not recognize the name, but he made a significant contribution that we all have used. In 1849 he invented the safety pin. He received his ...

A new, interdisciplinary course at the Carlsen Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship has students teaming up to solve problems in their communities with their own ingenuity and inventions.

For a long time, the toaster has been attributed to a Brit named Alan MacMasters. But recent evidence contradicts that claim.

There were 569 films released theatrically in the U.S. and Canada in 2024; at this Sunday’s Oscars ceremony, a mere thirteen ...

Courtesy Lynn Sures and Michelle Samour Artists have used colored paper since the late 15th Century and continue to use it ...

Since he launched the first cryptocurrency in 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto has proved as enigmatic as the tech world in which he ...

Technology and textiles have always been joined at the hip, from the invention of the loom around 5000 BC to IBM’s first ...

If your arm doesn’t hurt after pounding nails, thank Kurt Schroder ’90. And while you’re at it, thank him for the low-cost ...

A new TV show for wannabe inventors – hosted by former Dragon’s Den star Sara Davies – is following ordinary people with ...