Valerie O'Shea Murray Ph.D., Tom Murray Ph.D. An invention disclosure form is a document used to capture detailed information about a new invention or discovery. The first step in the patent ...

A Georgia second-grade teacher created a designated "fart corner" stocked with Febreze, but the classroom flatulence policy ...

Was Google Glass an invention or an innovation? What about the iPhone or Post-it Notes? I would argue that Google Glass was an invention while the rest of the the things are innovations. Innovation is ...

Got a great idea for an invention but not sure what to do with it? Follow these steps to turn your idea into a marketable product. The light bulb above your head is glowing so bright that it’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

The invention of the airplane by Wilbur and Orville Wright is one of the great stories in American history. The Wright brothers’ invention not only solved a long-studied technical problem, but also ...

Damping vibrations is crucial for precision experiments, for example in astronomy. A new invention uses a special kind of magnets to achieve this -- electropermanent magnets. They consist of a ...

An invention at the heart of our modern world helped create radios, cars and smartphones. The team from Planet Money traces the origins back to a fight over who invented the sewing machine. How do ...

There are a handful of artifacts in the Smithsonian Institution that I call “signature Smithsonian objects.” One-of-a-kind objects, intimately associated with the Smithsonian, that visitors feel they ...