John Logie Baird took his 'Televisor' out of stealth on January 26, 1926. But the demonstration faced some serious skepticism.

The former glamour model, who has previously been married to Peter Andre, Alex Reid, and Kieran Hayler, has now said ‘I do’ ...

She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

Jeffrey Snover the inventor of PowerShell, has retired from Google after transforming Windows administration and cloud ...

Treponema pallidum, a microorganism that can cause a deadly sexually transmitted disease in humans, may have a far more ancient lineage than scientists once thought ...

Copying human expressions is super-difficult, but scientists used hours of YouTube videos to teach a robot how humans move ...

James Moylan, who thought up the little arrow on your gas gauge that tells you what side of the car your fuel filler sits, has passed away. Moylan was a Ford interior trim designer who came up with ...

Erwin Perzy I, a surgical instruments mechanic in Vienna, was experimenting with a water-filled glass globe around 1900 to amplify light when added particles drifted down like snow. The "snowfall" ...

Finding evidence of ancient mathematics isn’t easy outside of written records, but a new study suggests that floral pottery from the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia shows evidence of geometry ...

A new campaign dubbed 'GhostPoster' is hiding JavaScript code in the image logo of malicious Firefox extensions with more than 50,000 downloads, to monitor browser activity and plant a backdoor. The ...

The world’s first lock and key system was invented in ancient Egypt around 4000 BCE. Made of wood, it used simple pins and bolts to secure doors, a design that still influences modern locks today.