Historian Chaplin (The First Scientific American) provides an enthralling exploration of Benjamin Franklin’s little-remembered but most commercially successful invention. The Continue reading ...

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What’s more, while DARPA has invented some amazing things, it’s also come up with some horrors: Agent Orange comes to mind. The Framework Programmes, at least until now, have remained resolutely ...

Microchip Technology (NASDAQ: MCHP) stock is rebounding, and the rebound is real. It is real because the business reached the bottom of the cycle, demand improved, and an inflection point was ...

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One notorious example is Alan MacMasters, a man who never existed but who, for almost a decade, was credited on Wikipedia with having invented the electric toaster. The false claim was cited by ...

But really, the stuff can be traced as far back as the 1940s when rock music was simply being invented out of the blues. Born on March 20, 1915, Sister Rosetta Tharpe helped create rock music by ...

He invented a cut of dress known as the “princess” line, where the waist seam is removed to emphasise vertical lines, and which is still used by designers today. And, most significantly of all ...

He was found by a person over the last weekend. The zoo said Cauliflower's identity was confirmed through a microchip scan. "Our team is devastated," the zoo wrote on its Facebook page.