Dr. Thomas J. Fogarty, a longtime Portola Valley resident who became as well-known for his Fogarty Winery as for his ...

Just the other day, I heard one of the earliest popular recorded sambas, Donga’s “Pelo Telefone,” from 1916 and released on an Edison talking record, probably a wax cylinder. A few years later the ...

PITTSBURGH , Dec. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "As a facilities manager, I needed a better way to mount and attach items to a wall, especially when doing maintenance work," said an inventor, from East ...

Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch have broken away from the rest of the Supreme Court over a key tax guideline, with Thomas calling it an "unsupported invention." During the ...

DALLAS -- Keys to the New Jersey lab where Thomas Edison invented the phonograph and some of the lightbulbs that he perfected sold for more than $60,000 at auction on Saturday. The keys sold for ...

This, my friends, is the greatest patent the world has ever known. Brilliant in its simplicity, it’s a headrest for placement above urinals. I mean, haven’t we all been in a state where we would just ...

Daniel Thomas is a finalist in a national science competition for his invention that solves a common HVAC problem. Courtesy A 14-year-old Colleyville student is a finalist in the 2022 3M Young ...

Columns share an author’s personal perspective. You may have read the recent story from early September of the man in France who, while in pursuit of an annoying fly, ignited leaking gas with his ...

A 14-year-old Colleyville student is a finalist in the 2022 3M Young Scientist Challenge. Daniel Thomas, along with nine other finalists from around the nation, will compete Oct. 17-18 at the 3M ...