They say necessity is the mother of invention, and that’s certainly the case for these common products, created by clever people who saw a problem and solved it — or who, while inventing something ...

Discover a world of innovation in this video as we explore breakthrough technologies transforming everyday life. From capsule endoscopy cameras that revolutionize medical imaging to humanoid robots ...

Many tools, machines and facilities within your home have their origins in research undertaken by NASA over the past 50 years. Technology originally designed to aid space exploration and land a human ...

Human technology isn’t as far removed from science fiction as we might think. Although many of the concepts that science fiction works imagine aren’t real, many modern inventions were inspired by the ...

While it’s unlikely that any of us will be the first person to set foot on Mars, most of us snap photos with our cellphone cameras daily. We have NASA to thank for that, and for a variety of other ...

In 1958, during the height of the Cold War, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed what was known as the National Aeronautics and Space Act into law. The goal of the legislation was to create an agency ...

Compelling Question: How are our lives impacted by inventions? In this inquiry, students will research German inventions of everyday items, such as the hole punch, toothpaste, and the coffee filter, ...

The Background: In response to the Biden administration's "Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence" on October 30, 2023, the U.S. Patent and ...

Seven students from Greater Hartford area placed at the recent state Invention Convention finals and fourth graders were well-represented at the competition, as three of the seven students who placed ...