Few people embody that spirit of innovation more completely than Dennis Clay Parker. Close Up Radio is proud to welcome back Dennis Parker, an accomplished geologist, mineralogist, inventor, ...

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For decades, the world credited two men with inventing the computer. But after a bitter battle in federal court, the real ...

A retinal implant invented by a Stanford scientist is restoring limited vision to people with advanced macular degeneration, helping some read and recognize faces again.

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

It started in 1973, when he and Robert Kahn began working on a protocol that would let devices connect and exchange data. It ...

The Ferris wheel is just one of the many inventions that debuted when the World's Fair in Chicago opened on May 1, 1893.

It's one thing to design a pharmaceutical drug. It's another to know if and why it actually works; not on paper or in a computer model, but inside the chaotic world of living systems, where proteins ...