Louis E. Brus, a chemist and Nobel laureate who discovered quantum dots, tiny crystals that emit various colors of light ...

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Dilbert creator Scott Adams, who stirred controversy in 2023, has died. Here's what to know about Scott Adams, his cancer ...

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James Moylan, who thought up the little arrow on your gas gauge that tells you what side of the car your fuel filler sits, has passed away. Moylan was a Ford interior trim designer who came up with ...

Here are five bands who quietly (or not so quietly) invented entire subgenres without ever meaning to. When we look back on music history, genres often get framed around big moments and clearly ...

The origins of nuclear power are complicated because it wasn't discovered by a single person. Nuclear power is a product of many scientists and engineers who worked across generations and borders.

When people name the most important inventions in history, light bulbs are usually on the list. They were much safer than earlier light sources, and they made more activities, for both work and play, ...

Angela Richardson-Mook never intended to make a career out of surrogacy. In fact, her model of what pregnancy should look like was pretty black and white growing up: man and woman, marriage, then baby ...

On Tuesday, Prince William got a sweet surprise while visiting the new offices of Centrepoint, a charitable organization working to end youth homelessness, in honor of his 20th anniversary as its ...

A handful of researchers spread across American universities built the backbone of the internet long before most people even knew what a computer network was. They created packet switching, ...

ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS, N.J.—Erich Arcement was standing outside his New Jersey home one morning last October when a truck driver called to ask what time his store opened for deliveries. Arcement later ...