A new study examines a relatively recent theory that miners in the Carpathian Mountains created the first wheel largely due to the limitations of their environment ... For an invention so world ...

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The 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics went to William Shockley, Walter Brattain, and John Bardeen for the invention of the transistor. But these talented scientists did not act alone. Their success ...

A team led by Cornell University has created a new technology that could help solve two major global problems at the same ...

The prototype of the 'lunar regolith processing' system created by inventor Lolan Naicker was built using a barbecue wood pellet feeder, a domestic microwave oven, and an auger from B&Q ...

Their usage is well-known to scientists — but this is by far the oldest example, predating the invention of the wheeled vehicle in Mesopotamia by some 17,000 years, according to researchers.