There is a little-known U.S. law that allows the government to secretly block inventions it considers a threat. Under the Invention Secrecy Act, over 6,000 patents have been buried without public ...

Long before modern regulations and digital technology, inventors pushed radical ideas into the real world. This video revisits a series of experimental machines and concepts that once promised to ...

Purdue researchers developed HARVEST, a wireless passive sensor system that monitors subsoil conditions to help farmers use ...

Lightsabers curling plasma, jetpacks for casual flights: My 15 top absurd picks from Star Wars to The Rocketeer show how movies invent what physics laughs off.

A local high school student is gaining national attention for his innovative work in health technology. Akshath Motkuri, has ...

At an event for the Trump administration’s new “Action for Progress” initiative last week, Dr. Mehmet Oz insisted that “the ...

The task force focused on fighting car thefts in Colorado just got some new technology that captures DNA evidence without ...

NASA technology developed originally for use in space is employed in many everyday situations on Earth, including in your mattress foam.

Officially known as P1-Sun, the weapon resembles a large thermos, and has four rotors and about 500 grams of C-4 at its base.

Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, who would go down in history as Hedy Lamarr, was born on 9 November 1914 in Vienna, then the ...

This program really works, and to shut it down over policy disputes when it's been successful for 43 years is a shame. It really is tragic," Jere Glover said.