Maurice Ward was a British hairdresser who invented a material called “Starlite” that he claimed could withstand fire and even nuclear blasts. It drew the attention of Boeing, NASA, and the British ...

Ridgetop Group, Inc., of Tucson, AZ, a fast-growing high-technology firm, has received U.S. Patent 7,239,163, Die-level process monitor and method. Ridgetop’s invention provides a means for ...

A mystery invention, code-named Ginger and said to be as significant as the World Wide Web, has thrown the down-on-its-luck tech community into a tizzy even though few have any solid idea what it is.

It's a lesson in local history with a mysterious twist, just in time for Halloween. The Steuben County Conference and Visitors Bureau, Corning's Gaffer District and Urban Corning will sponsor The Days ...

Virtually every opera has romance at its heart, but few have a science-fiction element. Recent local productions based on H.G. Wells’s “The War of the Worlds” and the 1986 movie “The Fly” are rare ...

Most people tend to overlook tree bark as rather uninteresting, at best. It’s too bad, because bark is a fascinating and often attractive plant “invention,” and is actually rather complex in its ...

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