Palaces for the People by social scientist Eric Klinenberg was a stand-out book for me. In the context of rapid urbanisation across Africa with significant investment in hard infrastructure like water ...

How did we forget about Alexander von Humboldt? Learn all about the polymath who helped shape our understanding of the natural world. This August, the SciFri Book Club is reading The Invention of ...

Following a crane failure at E.P. Allis' Reliance Works in Walker's Point, Alton J. Shaw conceived a new design. He pitched this idea to E.P. Allis: a crane with three electric motor drives that would ...

DALLAS (October 1, 2021) — If Not You, Then Who?, the popular book series for early and grade school children, has launched an educational curriculum for teachers designed to introduce the vast world ...

There’s a strong case to be made for allowing machines to invent other machines. We recently examined the logic and legality behind the notion of artificial intelligence (AI) gaining the ability to ...

Henry Wurtz Papers, 1861-1885, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. "The Book of Inventions, Made by Henry Wurtz from about 1850, Compilation and Arrangement, from Scattered Notes, ...

A number of countries have now issued decisions on whether a patent can be granted to Dr. Stephen Thaler for an invention made by a machine named DABUS. In response to a request by the United Kingdom ...