The 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics went to William Shockley, Walter Brattain, and John Bardeen for the invention of the transistor. But these talented scientists did not act alone. Their success ...

A new study examines a relatively recent theory that miners in the Carpathian Mountains created the first wheel largely due ...

Since 1912, bald, businesslike Dr. Lucas Petrou Kyrides (rhymes with Wheaties) has been grinding out inventions in a steady ... the nation’s top industrial chemists. But not until last week ...

The one most heard of is the Nobel Peace Prize, which is given to people who help the world through their good deeds. There is also a Nobel Prize in Chemistry! As we think about Nobel and his ...

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Part of the problem, she says, is how we think of scientists and inventors ... a method of extracting clean water from thin air. Their invention, called Stillae — as featured in the documentary ...

Since 1999, the editors of Technology Review have honored the young innovators whose inventions and ... of technologists and scientists, all under the age of 35. Their work--spanning medicine ...