China’s long had a reputation for having some unusual patent rules. There’s the aversion to business method patents, for one. There’s the unexamined utility design patents, for another Lesser-known ...

Once hailed as a genius, Thomas Midgley Jr is now seen as history's most accidentally dangerous man, whose inventions - from leaded petrol to CFCs - killed millions ...

There are many websites out there that list “the world’s most dangerous inventions”, but one in particular has caught my eye. So, what creation does it reward with this ominous title? Nuclear weapons ...