The Innovators Support Fund has launched ‘Protect’ to fund patents, offer legal guidance and provide full IP support for ...

If you hold a sheet of paper up to the light, it looks almost weightless — thin, soft, and easy to tear. Yet this simple ...

From the ninth to the first centuries BC, in the period before the Roman empire, Etruscan culture flourished in present-day ...

16th Century – The distinction of “upper crust” comes from the 1600s. When the bread was made in stone ovens, the bottoms would become dirty from ash and soot. If you were wealthy, you cut the bottom ...

We’ve been using matches for 200 years–but, as Rob Crossan discovers, the story of how they came to be is far more colourful ...

Explore the 8 rarest historical artifacts that changed history. Learn how ancient relics like the Rosetta Stone and Dead Sea ...

It is a story that spans thousands of years of invention, defiance and allure. What should you look for in a lipstick today? There’s a bit on that too.

He used gasoline to set the monster on fire then dumped it in the Nile. "Trying is more noble than success," Bendary-made poster read at the cremation ceremony.

From the deserts of Iran came innovations millennia ahead of their time, wind catchers, ice houses, and the world’s first windmills. These passive cooling systems provided natural air conditioning and ...

Egyptian blue, known in the scientific community as calcium copper silicate, has come to be recognized as a pioneering feat of human creativity. With origins speculated to precede 3000 BC, Egyptian ...