The bizarre reason why an eccentric aristocrat installed the first telephone in a North Wales market town in 1881 has finally ...

Germany is a global hub for innovation in technology and engineering, as it has produced energy above water, making a 25-year ...

These developments go to show that while children may not be in decision-making roles or in boardrooms calling the shots, ...

The economic advantages of rotor sails vanished almost overnight, and with it the promising technology. A century later, ...

A York couple who have invented the ingenious water-saving device SealStop have already won a raft of prestigious awards.

The fascinating fraudster of HBO’s The Gilded Age, Maud Beaton, is not an invention of television programming: her persona is ...

In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, Rowan Hooper explores the advances ...

Jamaica Plain’s Kaia Minn won a state title for creating a biodegradable seed pouch designed to reforest areas devastated by wildfire or deforestation. The 12-year-old’s invention earned her the honor ...

ABC News' Danny New profiles a 13-year-old girl in Scotland who was just honored in Time's first-ever "Girls of the Year" edition.

The Stirling engine works on a simple yet brilliant principle: a fixed amount of gas alternately heated and cooled expands and contracts, driving a piston. No explosions, no emissions — just thermal ...