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 ...

About 30 years ago, a 20-something scientist was hard at work on an obscure bit of chemistry. It wasn’t clear that the chemistry would ever have any real-world application, but researchers thought ...

Forty interactive machines based on Leonardo da Vinci's 500-year-old designs will arrive at the Michigan Science Center on Saturday. "Leonardo da Vinci: Machines in Motion," running through January ...

The Curiosity rover has been exploring Mars for over a decade, searching for signs of past life. The James Webb Space Telescope allows scientists to see deeper into the universe than ever before.

History loves a clean, easy-to-digest story. You know the one: a lone genius has a "Eureka!" moment, a lightbulb goes off ...

In 2000 TIME’s editors sat down to select three inventions of the year, one each in consumer technology, medical science, and basic industry. They found so many interesting ones along the way that ...