Science pioneer Gitanjali Rao has earned massive accolades and a patent for her early inventions—and she believes her peers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Human technology isn’t as far removed from science fiction as we might think. Although many of the concepts that science fiction ...

Hugo Gernsback was a pioneer in the world of science fiction during the first half of the 20th century—so much so that the Hugo Awards are named after him. But Gernback also edited serious tech ...

The latest NSF X-Labs funding opportunity invites proposals in the technical domain of Artificial Intelligence for Physical Systems. NSF is also previewing two additional NSF X-Labs topics for which ...

Eureka! From 6 to 15 March, British Science Week puts inventiveness and innovation under the microscope, paying tribute to the past while firing up future generations. To mark this 10-day STEM ...

In 1945, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke proposed something ridiculous: satellites orbiting Earth at exactly the right altitude to stay fixed above one spot, beaming radio signals across ...

In 2024, not one but two Nobel Prizes (in Chemistry and Physics) were awarded to researchers for their work in artificial intelligence ("AI"). Particularly noteworthy for the life science community is ...

On Oct. 3, 1950, three scientists at Bell Labs in New Jersey received a U.S. patent for what would become one of the most important inventions of the 20th century — the transistor. John Bardeen, ...

Patents traditionally have been perceived as the domain of industry and basic science the province of academia. Some separation of basic intellectual and commercial interest is desirable, but when ...