secrecy orders imposed under the Invention Secrecy Act of 1951

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A post about a young woman named Dasia Taylor and her purported invention of infection-detecting sutures went viral in February 2022.

By Cynthia Garcia A Brazilian artist who confounded the art world with his revolutionary energy is finally getting his due at the Art Institute of Chicago, which currently hosts the artist's first American retrospective. Born in Rio, Hélio Oiticica's anarchic socio-political ideals refused all stripes of repression and criticized the staid influence of Western art

Prisons have been controversial since their beginnings in the late 1700s — why do they keep failing to live up to expectations?

And how the U.S. Army hijacked the videogame

In the 1960s and 1970s Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson invented Unix, arguably the world's most important computer operating system. The legacy cannot be overstated, as Unix, its descendants and look-alikes, and its architecture can be found on most computers in existence today. Ritchie, Thompson, and later collaborators cooperated to foster the development and growth of Unix throughout the academic and commercial…

The view from nowhere came from somewhere.

Thousands of Americans die preventable deaths each year. Why do we consider them mishaps?

His vision of a tech-optimized future inspired a generation. But his true talent was for burnishing his own image.

The Hellenic inspiration for the 26.2-mile races which draw over a million runners yearly worldwide had nothing to do with sport—but everything to do with war.

An overview of the history of the invention of the jigsaw puzzle.

Elise Stefanik had had enough. In the wake of the 2018 midterms, the young congresswoman was sick of commuting to

AWS puts its patents behind the open-source and Linux patent guard OIN.

No, that's not a typo in the title. Caloric was a kind of infinitesimally subtle fluid substance, believed by many prominent scientists in the late eighteenth century to be the source of heat when it flowed. This may sound like just another example of a now-debunked belief that many clever and educated people had in the distant past, to be put up there alongside the longstanding

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Riffing on Derek Thompson's feature in The Atlantic

The remarkable possibilities of the Victorian-style Guarantee Fund

Camp Invention, a nationally recognized nonprofit summer enrichment program, is coming to Gateway School District the week of July 11-14. The program challenges children in kindergarten to sixth grade through hands-on activities while promoting STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) learning; building confidence, leadership, perseverance and resourcefulness; and encouraging entrepreneurship,

Dennis Duncan discusses "Index, a History of the," and Brendan Slocumb talks about "The Violin Conspiracy."