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Innovation
In the spirit of the 1969 moon landing, we now have a golden opportunity to pursue “nondisruptive” creative solutions.
4mins
Asking the wrong questions can hold you back. Natalie Nixon explains how to ask divergent questions to become a great thinker.
Laser-guided lightning isn't the only manmade way to create lightning.
Data scientists first gained prominence by making us click on ads — now the profession spans a multiverse.
It can write 5-minute songs based on short text prompts.
Without modularization, many epic projects simply would be impossible.
Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works engineering division has devised many jaw-dropping aircraft. Here are some of the best — and one ship.
In 1903, a Vermont doctor bet $50 that he could cross America by car. It took him 63 days, $8,000, and 600 gallons of gas.
Just like with AI, people worried about job security and the spread of disinformation. Machines were destroyed and book merchants were chased out of town.
Finding this missing piece of water’s path through the universe offers clues to how it came to be on Earth.
Humanity can avoid catastrophe — if we look beyond our blinkered present.
Dig a 70-mile tunnel under the Bering Strait, and you get this amazing InterContinental Railway, which will reshape the world.
Steam cars hit the U.S. market in the 1890s but were largely extinct by the 1930s. Will technology bring them back?
8mins
What makes some scientists culturally significant, while others remain in obscurity? Well, there’s a science to it.
It is easy to underestimate how much the world can change within a lifetime.
Whether you're developing or in the market for corporate training videos, these examples from PwC, Chick-fil-A, and others are sure to impress.
From landscaped gardens to road systems, the Persians were among the first to create many things we still enjoy today.
AI helped create films like "Jurassic Park" and "A.I.", so Steven Spielberg and other artists shouldn't worry about losing their jobs.
We bake pies for Pi Day, so why not celebrate other mathematical achievements.
The first "running machine" — later known as the bicycle — symbolizes a key design idea.
"It can truly allow you to see the physical world in ways that were not possible before."
Civil engineer Martin Lebek has a brilliant plan to redress the world’s phosphorus imbalance.
The 1,200-year-old "Book of Ingenious Devices" contains designs for futuristic inventions like gas masks, water fountains, and digging machines.
What if we could harvest energy from human heat, sweat, or vibrations?
3D-printing robots are being used to build a 100-home housing development in the US state of Texas.
The Apple Watch could soon take the pain out of monitoring blood sugar levels.
An innovation's value is found between the technophile’s promises and the Luddite’s doomsday scenarios.
A non-invasive method for looking inside structures is solving mysteries about the ancient pyramid.
Using shaped ultrasound, researchers can 3D print objects in one shot.
Telegrams were the “Twitter of the 1850s and 1860s” — and they elicited the exact same overblown fears as Twitter does today.