In 2000 TIME’s editors sat down to select three inventions of the year, one each in consumer technology, medical science, and ...

History is full of amazing Black scientists whose lives and accomplishments have routinely been ignored and forgotten because of their race and gender. But being overlooked doesn’t mean they have not ...

She never earned a PhD — but she earned a Nobel Prize. Born shortly after World War I, Gertrude Elion revolutionized modern medicine with the invention of lifesaving drugs, from leukemia treatments to ...

The best idea, trick, and tool for getting inspiration is to go as far away as possible. In the design of user interfaces, which use physical principles to help us access an entirely abstract realm, ...

AFTER THE second world war, Leo Szilard, a pioneering nuclear physicist who had worked on the Manhattan Project, decided to move into biology instead: life; not death. But there was a problem. As a ...

How do you know that someone is “The One?” Gernsback tackled that question in 1924 with an idea for an invention that was supposed to inject some science into the world of romantic attraction. From ...

In the annals of invention, few names echo with such tragic irony as that of Thomas Midgley Jr. Hailed in his lifetime as a chemical wizard who solved the mechanical ailments of a rapidly modernizing ...

SFFILM on Wednesday unveiled the program slate of the Sloan Science in Cinema Initiative at the 67th San Francisco International Film Festival, which runs April 24–28. Presented in a partnership ...

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 ...