The history of science and technology is marked by major breakthroughs—the theory of evolution, the splitting of the atom, ...

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Patents traditionally have been perceived as the domain of industry and basic science the province of academia. Some separation of basic intellectual and commercial interest is desirable, but when ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Human technology isn’t as far removed from science fiction as we might think. Although many of the concepts that science fiction ...

Hugo Gernsback was a pioneer in the world of science fiction during the first half of the 20th century—so much so that the Hugo Awards are named after him. But Gernback also edited serious tech ...

On Oct. 3, 1950, three Bell Labs scientists received a patent for a "three-electrode circuit element" that would usher in the transistor age and the era of modern computing. When you purchase through ...

> For some years Dr. Irving Langmuir of General Electric Co. has investigated the properties of monomolecular layers— that is, oil films, one molecule thick. He finds that in such layers molecules all ...