Clay County Archivist Petra Gunderson-Leith mined patent records for local inventions and discovered some priceless gems. In ...

The 1980s are forever immortalized in popular culture as an era of primitive digitization, with technological revolutions spanning everything from the artificial heart to the Space Shuttle. The ...

The Curiosity rover was recognized for its decade-plus of exploration on Mars, searching for signs of past life. The James Webb Space Telescope was honored for being a technological marvel that allows ...

The Curiosity rover has been exploring Mars for over a decade, searching for signs of past life. The James Webb Space Telescope allows scientists to see deeper into the universe than ever before.

This episode of Between Two Wars takes us to the turbulent spring of 1920, when the world is desperate to move on from the Great War yet still haunted by fear and resentment. Indy Neidell explores a ...

Joseph Drayton, Alan Teran Ph.D. The Federal government is accelerating AI‑enabled innovation by launching the Genesis Mission, a sweeping national initiative to accelerate scientific discovery using ...

This year’s Invented at Duke event earlier this month brought nine inventor teams under one roof, each showcasing early-stage technologies that blend scientific expertise with practical problem ...

In 1958, during the height of the Cold War, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed what was known as the National Aeronautics and Space Act into law. The goal of the legislation was to create an agency ...

Necessity might be the mother of invention, but sometimes dumb luck plays an even bigger role. World-changing tech often begins as total accidents, proving that stumbling around in the dark ...

The invention of the modern self. How did the idea of the individual come into being? In that classic of Western cinema, Monty Python’s Life of Brian, the title character addresses a crowd in ...