A new study suggests that a period of intense fires and landscape upheaval in the ancient southern Levant may have helped ...

In the past, various methods for generating invention ideas have been developed and attracted attention.　In Japan, during the bubble economy, methods like the KJ method and brainstorming were widely ...

The “natural kiln hypothesis” argues that intense wildfires taught prehistoric humans that fire hardened clay—and that this ...

Becoming an inventor isn’t about being a genius, having a degree, or owning a high-tech lab — it’s about curiosity and creativity. Inventors are problem-solvers who see everyday frustrations and ask, ...

While celebrated as a Hollywood icon, Hedy Lamarr also left a lasting mark on technology. Discover the history of her 1942 patent for a frequency-hopping communication system and its eventual impact ...

We take windshield wipers for granted as a truly excellent invention. It is a standard piece of equipment on almost all cars, except for open-wheel race cars. It is so ingenious and universal that ...

Children don't need to be taught how to be creative. We’ve known for decades that creativity is innate. When researchers George Land and Beth Jarman tested preschool age children for creativity in the ...

Whether a film is a documentary or a fictional drama, all modern cinema is in a sense docu-fictional, because most viewers know that a documentary is carefully crafted to yield a narrative and that ...

Horace Dediu is trying to convince us all to accept a new word of his creation, innoveracy, to aid in explaining new products like Apple's iPhone. Truly ground breaking new products, ones that are ...

On a trip to New York City in 1902, Mary Anderson realized what a nuisance the falling snow was for her streetcar driver. Anderson couldn’t drive, but back home in Birmingham, she sketched up her ...