Ever experience a subway delay at DeKalb Avenue near the foot of the Manhattan bridge? Thank Great Depression era-tech.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has dismissed all charges held against 34 Greenpeace activists who blockaded the London headquarters of Unilever last September. The activists staged the action ...

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Chinese researchers have advanced hydrovoltaic cell science by creating a device that generates electricity with less water ...

The past year was a marvellous one for those who read serious nonfiction. As has been my tradition, I present in random order ...

Children familiar with the Tom Swift series where Swift uses a stun gun. A NASA physicist invented the taser which stands for ...

She styled a scruffy group of guys that became the Grateful Dead and lent Jerry Garcia the money for his first amp ... out her concept on a piece of paper and showed it to him — a straight ...

A Swiss darts fan who banked Paddy Power's £60,000 bonus has revealed he'll spend his cash on beer - and some new windows for his house! Mauro, a 37-year-old teacher from Switzerland, found ...

Who invented the first successful airplane depends ... as editor," the university said. "This paper, published in March 1889 through May of 1890, featured news from the west side of Dayton." ...

Down through the ages, Money been the object of humanity’s desires and the engine of our genius. For some, it is civilisation’s greatest invention, and whether we like it or not, our world ...

Even then, some considered passports to be an “anachronism in the modern world.” But the use of paper passports—which were first digitized as “e-Passports” with NFC chips in 2006—is ...