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ESSENTIAL QUESTION: Why is access to clean, safe drinking water important? Four years ago, the city of Flint, Michigan, switched water sources for its 100,000 residents in an effort to [...]

ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What steps do people follow to design a new invention? Major League pitchers can hurl a fastball at more than 160 kilometers (100 miles) per hour. But baseball [...]

The question is as old as it is bold: How can energy be extracted from the wind? For centuries clever inventors have devised clever contraptions to do just that. First [...]

Around the world, about 250,000 kids between the ages of 9 and 16 spend their free time working with robots! They're participants in a program called FIRST LEGO League (FLL). [...]

How do you find water in the driest deserts? Or explore the ocean's depths? Questions like these have stumped the world's smartest engineers. But they're no match for Mother Nature. [...]

FOR A MOMENT, William Kisaalita is distracted. In a spacious, sunlit office at the University of Georgia, Kisaalita should be focused on the book he just published, or the pile [...]

Trevor Baylis is a maverick, an eccentric, some would say even a crank but he is possessed of the enthusiasm and sheer bloody-mindedness necessary to conceive a delightfully elegant idea [...]

Getting medicines to some parts of the world can be challenging. For example, vaccines, which protect the body from diseases, must be kept cool to stay effective. Usually vaccines are [...]

Byline: Megan Lindow Kumasi, Ghana -- Inside a workshop at the edge of this city's scrappy industrial district, groups of university students, engineers, and others are showcasing a panoply of [...]

Not All Australian Inventions embraced throughout the world have been headline-grabbers. In 1902 Launceston stationer J.A. Birchall literally put one and one together to do away with the disorder of [...]

The technology industry seems to be coming round to the idea that less is more AUSTERITY is a word much found on the lips of politicians and economists at the [...]

Dozing at the wheel is dangerous, as trucker Aaron Mason discovered - one such close shave prompting his invention of a clever antidote Numerous high-profile accidents in recent years have [...]

Tarentum bar owner thinks his Kegtainer has what it takes Jim Carter had a gut feeling. Make that a beer-gut feeling. After starts and stops at various careers -- he [...]

Driving along the beach in the SkyCar, you spot a pod of whales breaching in the distance. You want a closer look, so like a scene out of a futuristic [...]

A sick person can leave behind bacteria or viruses when touching a doorknob, handrail, shopping cart handle or countertop. Anyone else who touches that surface may pick up the microbes. [...]

HERE'S A HANDMADE GUN THAT WOULDN'T HURT ANYBODY. Just feed in sheets of paper, and the gun automatically folds and launches paper airplanes! The inventor, Dieter Michael Krone, is from [...]

Seventeen inventions to change life in the future, which were dreamt up by teenagers, are described. The ideas, which include a female president and makeup machine, represent the teenagers vision of life in 2020.

This bunk bed has an elevator, two TVs, slides, ladders, and radios. And on the bottom bunk there is a trampoline and a hot tub. It's just perfect for hanging [...]

A Princeton graduate student has designed a mini magic carpet of sorts, a la Aladdin. Noah Jafferis has already conducted successful lab tests on the four-inch device, a piece of [...]

Standing on the deck of the Proteus, you can glimpse a group of migrating whales, a breaching dolphin, or even a troubled boat in the distance. You're suspended 20 feet [...]

From fast food to computers, it seems faster is better. But a Wellsville, Kan., man is intent on taking things at a more relaxed pace with an invention he hopes [...]

Issues concerning the process of gaining a patent for a new energy saving vacuum panel for buildings are discussed. The product, developed by Visionary Architects, UK, and the need for speedy prototypes and trials, are explored.