Science geeks and computer nerds rock. It’s a message that’s generating a lot of buzz at the University of Virginia. “I want to be the next Steve Jobs,” UVa computer science student Josh Whelan smiled ...

Inventor Julian Brown shocked the world when he introduced what he calls the world’s first solar continuous microwave pyrolysis reactor, a machine that can convert plastic waste into usable fuel using ...

New at the California Science Center the exhibition “Leonardo Da Vinci: Inventor. Artist. Dreamer.” The exhibition features 30 of Leonardo da Vinci’s (1452-1519) genius inventions each built by ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Born in 1915, Charles Townes grew up and attended school in Greenville. At the age of 19, Townes graduated from Furman University. It was in the spring of 1951 that Townes had a true ...

Your heart runs on electricity! Discover how tiny sparks keep it beating — and how Buffalo inventor Wilson Greatbatch’s “happy accident” led to the pacemaker, a life-saving device that changed ...

As a boy growing up in the United Kingdom, my learning often began once school was dismissed. On any given day, I could be found disassembling machines—stripping lawn mowers down to parts, then ...

Technical gurus inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame for 2010 include Magnavox game system designer and inventor of precursor to GPS. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Russell Kirsch, a computer scientist credited with inventing the pixel and scanning the world’s first digital photograph, died Aug. 11 at his home in Portland, Oregon, The ...

Inventors who are on the faculty and staff of UB will be honored during a reception to be held at 4 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 17, in the Center for Tomorrow on the North Campus. UB faculty and staff ...

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