Understand how patents work, including how they protect inventions, along with the different types available, and their implications for inventors and businesses.

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The digital storefront is undergoing its most radical transformation since the invention of the shopping cart, but this time, ...

Close to 100,000 years ago, ancient humans embarked on what became one of humanity’s most daunting challenges: survival against the frigid temperatures of the last Ice Age as they expanded into new, ...

Far from the perception of the exhibition space as a sterile and untouchable, almost sacred place, the contemporary technology museum has emerged as a performative participant in the systems it seeks ...

The discovery of insulin came about by chance when Canadian scientists Frederick Banting and Charles Best were investigating pancreatic extracts. What was meant to be a study on digestion unexpectedly ...

The International Space Station "is the crown jewel of human spaceflight for all humanity,” says a leading space scholar, a timeless treasure of stellar engineering that absolutely must be protected ...

Elephants use their trunks much like a human uses their hands: to pick up food and manipulate objects. A new study finds that tiny, specialized whiskers on elephant trunks help them do it. Many human ...

Many human inventions are based on things found in nature. Velcro was inspired by the burrs a Swiss engineer found on himself and his dog, airplane wings by birds in flight. A new study of elephant ...