Switching gears now. When you think of inventors, you probably think of Thomas Edison, Ben Franklin, Nikola Tesla. But of course there are many people, especially people of color, who've created ...

New at the California Science Center the exhibition “Leonardo Da Vinci: Inventor. Artist. Dreamer.” The exhibition features 30 of Leonardo da Vinci’s (1452-1519) genius inventions each built by ...

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No problem is too big for Dean Kamen's imagination to tackle. Five years after its ballyhooed launch, his Segway gets more use from tourists and digerati like Steve Wozniak than from urban commuters.

When inventor and scientist Josh Miele was 4 years old, a neighbor poured sulfuric acid on his head, burning and permanently blinding him. In his new book Connecting Dots: A Blind Life, Miele ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Little inventors learned the some of the science behind creating new innovations June 24-28 at Lincoln Elementary School. From ...

Last week in Manhattan, they laid the cornerstone of a new cinema-film exchange, a place where the commercial envoys of millions of people will go to buy or rent for them the latest articles in ...

Patents traditionally have been perceived as the domain of industry and basic science the province of academia. Some separation of basic intellectual and commercial interest is desirable, but when ...

As a boy growing up in the United Kingdom, my learning often began once school was dismissed. On any given day, I could be found disassembling machines—stripping lawn mowers down to parts, then ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New at the California Science Center the exhibition “Leonardo Da Vinci: Inventor. Artist. Dreamer.” The exhibition features 30 of ...