These ingeniously designed, 500-year-old "banks" offer a glimpse into ... It was a Frenchman who invented sound recording in 1857. 700 years after his death, Marco Polo's travellogue is full ...
Human ingenuity, he wrote, “will never devise any inventions more beautiful ... After dissecting the body of a 100-year-old man, Leonardo presented the first description of atherosclerosis ...
When did humans start “putting pen to paper” and expressing their thoughts through a series of complex symbols? An important ...
Scientists have started to decode mysterious symbols found on 5,000-year-old cylinder seals to trace the invention of writing ...
The 10,000 steps spin was new, as was promoting step-counting for fitness, but pedometers themselves are at least as old as ...
New research uncovers the origin of the wheel, revealing how ancient copper miners transformed simple rollers into advanced ...
Aunt Maya: Using rails is a very old invention from all over the world ... Some of the earliest rail transport in Europe was used around 500 years ago. But they were very different from modern ...
A San Jose, California, student placed first at the nation’s premier middle school STEM competition, taking down the $25,000 ...
One of them was Herman Bekele, last year’s winner, who invented a $.50 bar of soap to treat skin cancer. “He's 15 years old, ...
How was Halloween invented? – Tillman ... The Celts lived in what’s now Ireland as far back as 500 B.C. They celebrated New Year’s Day on Nov. 1, which they called Samhain.