In Ross Coulthart's latest episode of "Reality Check," Coulhart speaks with physicist and astronomer Dr. Beatriz Villarroel to discuss her discovery of nine "transient" objects in space that seemed to ...

Someone asked “What inventions are worse than 30 years ago ... souls before the words were put on the paper. Words are so cheap and simple in the era of the keyboard and computers.

Jeff Bezos said in an interview that he wants Blue Origin to make space travel so cheap that "two kids in a dorm" can get ...

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Audience editors: Samantha Cooney, Annabel Gutterman, Soo Jin Kim, Kat Moon, and Kimberly Tal Copy editors: Helen Eisenbach, Mark Hokoda, Anny Kim, Silvija Ozols, Sarah Rutledge, and Jennifer ...

CRISPR, the gene-editing technology, has been one of the major breakthroughs in biology in the last two decades. And while ...

While we can’t say for sure that each of these games were the direct inspiration for these inventions, it’s nevertheless incredibly easy to draw some lines of causality and infer that the ...

This story appears in the June 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Thomas Edison liked to say that he never failed. He succeeded every now and again with an invention that would change the ...

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The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, owes his superstar success to self-satisfied competitors who blew obvious opportunities ...

The invention changed the concrete industry for ... Don’t expect to get by cheap if you need good engineering, accounting and lawyers. Coming up with new ideas was easy, getting a patent wasn ...