Reading without seeing the text, extracting water from air, bringing sunlight to a basement, or communicating with a humanoid ...

INVENTION forms the natural link between physics, chemistry, and engineering, and every advance in one or-other of these produces a reflex action on the other. For example, a discovery in physics ...

I’ve been a Scientific American subscriber since I was 12 years old, and it helped shape the way I look at the world. SciAm always educates and delights me, and inspires a sense of awe for our vast, ...

INVENTION and discovery are so closely allied that they are often confused. In our common speech the two terms awfrequently used as synonymous, and if one seeks an exact line of dmarcation between ...

Lungpacer Medical, a Canadian innovation success story, began as a labour of love for both its inventor and its first major business partner. Simon Fraser University (SFU) biomedical physiology and ...

Thanks to not only technology, but also science fiction, we have these everyday inventions. Here's the sci-fi concepts that inspired them. Human technology isn’t as far removed from science ...

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The exhibition will feature more than 60 detailed full-scale invention recreations and over 20 fine art studies.

Looking back at history, how many scientific inventions end up doing more harm than good? In a new book, Paul Offit, MD, tells readers seven stories about when scientists got things very wrong.