How do inventions happen? NPR's Planet Money's team brings us the history of one underappreciated invention that has enabled countless other inventions, from the Phillips screwdriver to Bluetooth. You ...

"I wanted to create a new type of vending machine that would allow women to purchase pads, tampons, panty liners, and other ...

There have been days recently when I would have liked to have been taken out of the present. Anywhere would have done. Greece 2012. The moon 2034. The entrails of a whale, to chat with Jonah, the ...

Matter Industries founder Adam Root has developed a filter to trap microfibres at home and on an industrial scale. But is it just a drop in the ocean?

Finding himself "bored" one day, Joan Manuel Hidalgo devised a hands-free, but margarinally complex machine that toasts and butters bread. Jam Press/@thehacklifeyt Finding himself “bored” one day, ...

A number of countries have now issued decisions on whether a patent can be granted to Dr. Stephen Thaler for an invention made by a machine named DABUS. In response to a request by the United Kingdom ...

Early efforts -- Elements of a successful machine -- The "Sewing-Machine Combination" -- Less expensive machines -- Appendixes: Notes on the development and commercial use of the sewing machine -- ...

Can a machine be an inventor? After the courts said no, a computer scientist is once more trying to have an artificial intelligence considered an inventor in the eyes of the law. In August, the U.S.