The printing press, light bulb, internal combustion engine and computer moved the world into a mostly better future.

Sometimes the most groundbreaking innovations emerge from spilled chemicals, forgotten lab samples, or misplaced ingredients. Scientists aiming for one thing stumble upon something completely ...

What do you think of when you hear the name IBM? Maybe the first things you think about are home computers or business laptops. Maybe you think of IBM as a company that runs data centers. It's not ...

There's a reason the United States has no minimum age to file a patent. A good idea can come from anyone, no matter how young. (Just ask Robert Patch, a Marylander whose toy truck design was patented ...

Sometimes inventions save countless lives. Sometimes they end just as many. Sometimes, they do both. The United States dropped the killing tens of thousands of people, sickening many more and ...