Human technology isn’t as far removed from science fiction as we might think. Although many of the concepts that science fiction works imagine aren’t real, many modern inventions were inspired by the ...

History is rich with examples of scientific discoveries that have contributed to the wider development of breakthrough inventions in the health, energy, transport, and telecommunications industries, ...

Paul A. Offit, MD, one of Medscape's Infectious Disease advisors and an accomplished author, just wrote a new book, Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong. In a recent phone call with Dr ...

How do you know that someone is “The One?” Gernsback tackled that question in 1924 with an idea for an invention that was supposed to inject some science into the world of romantic attraction. From ...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — Four Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists are now considered distinguished inventors. To be considered a distinguished inventor, they need to successfully get at least 14 ...

A new study published in the journal Science reveals that researchers who both publish papers and file patents—dubbed “Pasteur’s quadrant researchers”—produce work that is more novel and more ...