When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. 'The Dying Tecumseh,' a marble sculpture at the Smithsonian, depicts the Shawnee leader in a ...

The human capacity for invention and discovery is a remarkable phenomenon that has shaped the course of history. It is as if humans are driven by an innate desire to improve their lives and the world ...

Human survival over the past two centuries is not the story of a single miracle but of stacked inventions that together pushed down mortality: clean water and sewage systems, chemical fertilisers that ...

Readers of this space are by now intimately familiar with the Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience (DABUS), the machine created by computer scientist and prolific inventor ...

The human capacity for invention is unparalleled. We have developed technologies that have allowed us to survive and thrive far beyond the ecological niches that constrained our ancestors. While our ...

Along with some 80 items in ‘Measuring Difference’ is a reminder that measurement, in all its forms, is a human invention CAMBRIDGE — Measurement is at the heart of what science does, and difference ...

The magazine you are holding is, in many ways, a disruptive technology. From the introduction of the printing press to the launch of the internet, human inventions have always altered how humans live, ...

The most common high-engagement replies pointed not to medicine, but to sanitation. Plumbing, sewage treatment and water purification repeatedly topped the list. Long before vaccines existed, clean ...