Dr. Lonnie Johnson, best known as the inventor of the Super Soaker, has applied his engineering expertise to tackle one of the energy sector’s most persistent challenges: converting waste heat into ...

PITTSBURGH, June 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to provide manufacturers of motor vehicles, ships and aircraft with an improved means of propulsion," said an inventor, from Owens Cross Roads, Ala.

The late 1800s were an exciting time for industry across the globe. Steam power had given rise to rail transport and allowed factories to flourish, plus Carl Benz had come along and introduced the ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

The breakthrough is often credited to Scottish inventor John Logie Baird—but the real history is far more complicated and collaborative. John Logie Baird with his transmitting station on March 19, ...

It isn’t hard to think that Jeff Bezos left his role as Amazon.com’s CEO to enjoy a slower life filled with yachting and celebrity parties. But he would most certainly object to that characterization.

In the summer of 1956, a group of academics—now we’d call them computer scientists but there was no such thing then—met on Dartmouth College campus in New Hampshire to discuss how to make machines ...

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to provide manufacturers of motor vehicles, equipment, and machinery with an unconventional engine design with a number of positive attributes," ...