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Discover the remarkable story of Hedy Lamarr, the Hollywood icon whose wartime invention of frequency-hopping technology helped pave the way for modern wireless innovations like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and ...

David Pogue, author of "Apple: The First 50 Years," talks with Apple's co-founder Steve Wozniak, CEO Tim Cook, and others ...

You start to see what history noticed — and what it didn’t. For Women’s History Month, my colleagues and I pored over hundreds of obituaries in The New York Times archives. Our new project, which we ...

Created by Ryan Murphy and Matt Hodgson, FX’s ‘The Beauty’ reimagines the world laid out by Jeremy Haun and Jason A. Hurley in comic form, and brings to life the stories of Cooper Madsen and Jordan ...

The physics preceptor sat down with Fifteen Minutes to discuss New York City, interdisciplinarity, and the origins of math.

Today, we celebrate the revolutionary life and legacy of Alexander Graham Bell, a titan of ingenuity whose groundbreaking invention connected the world ...

The best inventions are often the simplest ones, and in Springfield, Illinois, you can taste an original creation that changed the sandwich game forever. The Maid-Rite didn’t just make a great ...