Spare a thought for the burglars of America - they’re going out of business! Since 1993, property crime in the US has fallen ...

In this video, we'll explain the story of the infamous, cotton gin - an 18th century invention used by African-American ...

Exciting new details have been revealed by Walt Disney World for The Magic of Disney Animation at Disney's Hollywood Studios, including that an Audio-Animatronics figure of Frozen's Olaf will lead a ...

The 1960s were a turning point for American food culture. Convenience foods exploded, fast food chains expanded nationwide, and snack companies became household names. It was a decade of ...

On January 26, 1926, entrepreneur and inventor John Logie Baird invited guests to what is today London’s Bar Italia (on Frith Street in Soho) as his latest project exited stealth. That first public ...

In 2005, physicists David Frame and Myles Allen were on their way to a scientific conference in Exeter, UK, and had been, in Frame’s words, “fiddling about” with a climate model to prepare for their ...

Unless you worked for Ford’s plastics, paint and vinyls division in the 1980s, you probably don’t know the name Jim Moylan. But you might well know the idea that made this unknown engineer who ...

James Moylan, who thought up the little arrow on your gas gauge that tells you what side of the car your fuel filler sits, has passed away. Moylan was a Ford interior trim designer who came up with ...

The origins of nuclear power are complicated because it wasn't discovered by a single person. Nuclear power is a product of many scientists and engineers who worked across generations and borders.

When people name the most important inventions in history, light bulbs are usually on the list. They were much safer than earlier light sources, and they made more activities, for both work and play, ...

His widow Kelly Roberts said he passed away peacefully in his sleep on Saturday while surrounded by family. “I feel so blessed to have shared 35 wonderful years of marriage with Duane,” she wrote on ...