We tend to believe that powerful, world-changing innovations require complex engineering and a lot of…
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The history of timekeeping goes as far back as ancient civilizations like Sumer and Egypt.…
The Golden Age of Islam refers to a nearly six-centuries-long period of renaissance in the…
Launched in late 2020, the AI Incident Database (AIID) collects news reports of “intelligent systems”…
Science and warfare are intrinsically linked. Throughout history, many scientific innovations and discoveries have changed…
For the last 20 years or more the internet has rolled out “this is how…
For a long time, the pursuit of bigness consumed a lot of the world. It…
Helicopters are incredible flying machines that test the limits of design and mechanics by their…
While robots haven’t yet taken over our daily lives like classic science fiction writers imagined,…
Science fiction has a curious way of being prophetic. We can only hope that stories…
Everyone knows what you mean when you refer to a weapon of mass destruction these…
Mankind has been fascinated by the idea of building something in our own image for…
According to the Doomsday Clock, it’s 100 seconds to midnight. Created in 1947, the clock…
Francis Bacon, an English philosopher responsible for creating the Scientific Method, wrote in 1620 that…
About a hundred years ago, the technology of the world was decidedly different than it…
Once nuclear power’s potential was clear, ideas were generated in all areas for how it…
We live in an age in which France is lining up flying taxis to help…
Fossil fuel is a dying industry in the throes of its zombie phase, simply refusing…
Fossil fuel is a dying industry in the throes of its zombie phase, simply refusing…
They say necessity is the mother of invention, but sometimes technology just doesn’t line up…
They say necessity is the mother of invention, but sometimes technology just doesn’t line up…
In the past few decades, quite a few new technologies and products have transformed our…
Technology is ever moving forward, but its acceptance is a fickle thing. We are almost…
Back in 1910, Eugene Burton Ely became the first pilot to successfully take off in…