“Who is that?” asked my 8-year-old son, Charlie, in front of a large statue of Johannes Gutenberg in Strasbourg, France, while on our recent family vacation. “He’s the reason books spread around the ...

According to a report by CNet, the so-called "Tesla valve", a device that the Croatian designed to pass fluid from one place to another without moving parts. It is a kind of conduit in which a main ...

You know that feeling when you're using something and think, "This is fine, but it could be so much better if it just did this one little thing differently?" It’s a universal experience. Some ...

There are quite a few things (inventions, places, books, people and events) that are turning 100 in 2022. The blender, the first radio commercial, the Lincoln Memorial — to name a few. Here are four ...