Back in the 1970's and 1980's we didn't have the internet to help kids search for toys that we might want for Christmas ...

Working out who invented the car is a long and winding road, and pinpointing a single person responsible is not a simple matter. If you rewind the development of cars past GPS, past antilock ...

The Romans ran with the concept and invented Harpastum, which was even more brutal. The ancients weren’t the only ones who enjoyed soccer with a slice of brutality. In the Middle Ages ...

This cold story is hotly debated, depending on whom you talk to about it. Different companies like Dryer’s, Edy’s, Blue Bell and even Herrell’s say they invented the vanilla and cookie delight. SDSU ...

Obstetrician and gynaecologist Patrick Steptoe helped develop in vitro fertilisation and ran a fertility clinic in Oldham ...

The movie The Matrix gave us the "red pill" and the "blue pill." The red wakes you up to reality; the blue keeps you ...

The networking platform that ships with virtually every modern computer was born at Xerox PARC around 1973. Ethernet was a groundbreaking technology that revolutionized computer networking.

It used to be that when a killer emerged in America, we found out who the man was before we began to enshroud him in myth.

The internet is a global system of interconnected ... Greek scholar Archimedes in the third century B.C., but was probably invented by the Pythagorean philosopher Archytas of Tarentum, according ...