Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Human technology isn’t as far removed from science fiction as we might think. Although many of the concepts that science fiction ...

Jacobs School associate vice president has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to examine these pioneering ...

Hugo Gernsback was a pioneer in the world of science fiction during the first half of the 20th century—so much so that the Hugo Awards are named after him. But Gernback also edited serious tech ...

In 2024, not one but two Nobel Prizes (in Chemistry and Physics) were awarded to researchers for their work in artificial intelligence ("AI"). Particularly noteworthy for the life science community is ...

On Oct. 3, 1950, three scientists at Bell Labs in New Jersey received a U.S. patent for what would become one of the most important inventions of the 20th century — the transistor. John Bardeen, ...

Eureka! From 6 to 15 March, British Science Week puts inventiveness and innovation under the microscope, paying tribute to the past while firing up future generations. To mark this 10-day STEM ...

In 1945, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke proposed something ridiculous: satellites orbiting Earth at exactly the right altitude to stay fixed above one spot, beaming radio signals across ...

The Virtual Museum of Ancient Inventions is a project that was begun by students in the course Ancient Inventions, first taught by Marjorie Senechal, which was offered at Smith from 1997 through 2004.

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