Many "modern" inventions actually have precedents dating back more than 1000 years, to ancient Greek and Roman times.

Explore the history of modern home essentials, from ovens and microwaves to TVs and air conditioning, and see how they changed daily life.

Fraunhofer ILT in Aachen has developed a highly complex laser-optical system for a quantum computer currently under construction at the 5th Institute of Physics at the University of Stuttgart. This ...

A research team led by Prof. Junghyup Lee of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at DGIST has become the first in the world to develop a "time-interleaved noise-shaping SAR ...

Mathematician and Michigander Claude Shannon revolutionized how the digital world communicates in the late 1940s. He is now ...

The United States has spent its quarter millennium of existence creating tools that reshaped the modern world. As the country ...

Customers at the downtown Milwaukie fountain — part of a 12,000-square-foot redevelopment project — will be able to sit at ...

From the lightbulb to the airplane, to medical breakthroughs and the internet age, the past 250 years have been defined by ...

Researchers have developed pixels that can not only create images, but also analyse them. In the future, this could lead to ...

Brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies developed independently for 50 years to restore sight and touch are functionally identical, establishing a unified framework that accelerates ...

A new laser-optical system uses 2,000 controllable beams to precisely position atoms, enabling key logic processes in a ...

The “Father of the Internet,” Vinton Cerf, has retired after shaping the digital world and warns that AI must rely on precise ...