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 ...

The periodic table of elements (often known simply as the periodic table) has been helping scientists with their work for a little over 150 years. The handy visual reference guide organizes known ...

The low-carbon transition needs batteries. And those need lithium. Fortunately, the metal is abundant, and science is getting ...

Upon Vitullo’s death in 2006, Kennedy writes, “an obituary in a local paper celebrated him as the ‘man who invented the rape kit.’” Every one of these backstories carries its own ...

1. Periodic Table as Arranged by Mendelejeff attention to the fact that “the eighth element, starting from a given one, is a kind of repetition of the first, like the eighth note of an octave in ...

He would go on to receive various patents for his inventions. Bailey also invented the rapid mail-stamping machine, a device to shunt trains to different tracks, and a hernia truss that was ...

(Walter Kohn, who co-invented this theory 60 years ago ... "Our ambition, ultimately, is to cover the whole periodic table with CCSD(T)-level accuracy, but at lower computational cost than ...

If you’ve ever nuked a Hot Pocket or used your microwave to warm up some leftovers, you have a comedy of errors to thank for the convenience. The invention of the all-too-common microwave came ...

PUP are paying tribute to "the unsung heroes who run the merch table" on tour with a wonderfully inventive video for Paranoid, their first single in two years. The video was made by the Toronto punk ...