He built the Great Mosque at Timbuktu, and Timbuktu became a very important commercial city, having caravan connections with Egypt and other important trader centers in North Africa. All of this made ...

My brothers and I established Stab Cat, Inc. in 1993,” said Sam Glass of Oak Island. The youngest of the three Glass brothers ...

For thousands of years, our clothing has primarily been used for protective and aesthetic uses. University of Delaware ...

Faraday started his scientific journey as a chemist, quickly earning recognition for his exceptional technical abilities. He identified several organic compounds, most notably benzene, and succeeded ...

Joy Akinkunmi saw a problem and built something to fix it: the Pill Smart, an automatic medication dispenser for people with ...

Anthony Pratt came up with the concept while holed up in the kitchen of his Birmingham home during World War II blackouts, ...

The idea came to Moylan on a rainy day in April 1986 when he hopped in one of Ford's employee fleet cars to drive to a ...

Kairos Kollar, a device made for assisted dying, is the latest invention by Dr Philip Nitschke, founder of pro-euthanasia group Exit International. The man is known for making the controversial Sarco ...

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create an improved work surface for florists that would be used when making a casket spray," said an inventor, from Altadena, Calif., "so I ...

Tim Berners-Lee may have the smallest fame-to-impact ratio of anyone living. Strangers hardly ever recognize his face; on “Jeopardy!,” his name usually goes for at least sixteen hundred dollars.

Artificial intelligence systems have a notorious problem: they make things up. These fabrications, known as hallucinations, occur when AI generates false information or misattributes sources. While ...