John Bos, a tulip farmer in California, told the Daily Mail that customers had destroyed blooms by tugging them from the ground to pose for photos and then discarding them.

In dozens of books, he rejected postmodern cynicism about truth and reason, arguing that rational communication was the best ...

Not long ago, a cellphone was a cell phone. A teenager was a teen-ager. Goodbye was good-bye. A website was a Web site. Legroom was leg room. Words and compounds evolve all the time. But in this ...

A Car Pro Show listener wrote recently and asked a question that a lot of drivers have probably wondered about while squinting at oncoming traffic at night: "Why are headlights on newer cars ...

Leigh argues three forces underpin most innovation: tinkering, teamwork and trade. New ideas alone aren’t enough.

Lewis Latimer was one of the greatest inventors you may have never heard of, a man whose genius helped light up the modern ...

Lewis Howard Latimer (1848–1928) was an African American inventor, engineer, and patent draftsman who made vital contributions to electrical engineering and telecommunications. His work in improving ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A graduate student discovered a new way to generate a highly sought-after variety of carbon, graphene, by studying a century-old Thomas Edison patent ...

Thomas Edison often gets credit for the invention of the light bulb, but a good argument can be made that they were around centuries earlier in the form of barometric light. Hosted by: Reid Reimers ...

The name of Alessandro Cruto rarely comes up when we talk about the electric light bulb: that story is usually told through Thomas Edison alone. And yet, in the early years of electric lighting, Cruto ...