Money is one of humanity’s greatest inventions. But crises of credit have been with us since ancient times.

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Every country has that one invention locals swear by – brilliant, bizarre, or both – that somehow never crossed the border. From niche gadgets to surprisingly efficient fixes, these creations exist in ...

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The cellphone is one of the most influential inventions of the modern era. It reshaped communication, transformed global ...

Today, it is hard to imagine a world without recorded audio, and for the most part that started with Edison’s invention of ...

Radiocarbon dating of ancient scripts suggests a groundbreaking origin story.

Robots have long been seen as a bad bet for Silicon Valley investors — too complicated, capital-intensive and “boring, ...

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Composer Simon Franglen ended up inventing instruments for tall, blue, four-fingered humanoids.

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The author of The Power looks to the past for lessons in surviving an era of seismic technological change ...