The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) today released the list of newly inducted fellows, and two Duke researchers have been ...

It isn’t hard to think that Jeff Bezos left his role as Amazon.com’s CEO to enjoy a slower life filled with yachting and celebrity parties. But he would most certainly object to that characterization.

Every week my column gets printed on paper. Sometimes I use paper to dry my paws. Or clean up after I use the litterbox. I asked my friend Xiuyu Wang who invented paper – and why. He ’s at Washington ...

Handy Famm named one of TIME’s Best Inventions of 2025 as it launches nationwide in Sam’s Club, empowering kids to build, create, and learn safely. Each year, TIME’s editors evaluate thousands of ...

Reddit user u/forgeris recently asked, "What's an invention that quietly changed the world but doesn't get enough credit?" Thousands of people shared their thoughts, and I'm honestly so fascinated by ...

TIME has revealed its 25th annual list of the Best Inventions featuring 300 innovations and 100 special mentions. TIME’s editors: “Across a quarter century, the pace of innovation has only accelerated ...

Read TIME's exclusive feature on the Figure 03 here. The Figure 03 is a humanoid robot with a lofty goal. The company that makes it, Figure AI, wants to build a machine in the form of a human being, ...

On Oct. 3, 1950, three scientists at Bell Labs in New Jersey received a U.S. patent for what would become one of the most important inventions of the 20th century — the transistor. John Bardeen, ...

There are a lot of fictional inventions in movies and TV shows, mostly in the sci-fi genre, that have since become real things. Often, it's not exactly what we saw in the movie or television show, but ...

Albert Einstein’s name has become shorthand for genius in theoretical physics. We tend to picture him scribbling equations about space and time, not tinkering in a workshop. Yet tucked alongside his ...