She won a top prize — getting to present her device to protect hearing devices worn by winter sports participants. Next event: Securing a patent.

"It was the accent, the flair, just how flamboyant he was, and that blond, floating hair." Swiss-born British hairdresser Pierre Alexandre started his career in a small salon in Manchester and went ...

The breakthrough is often credited to Scottish inventor John Logie Baird—but the real history is far more complicated and collaborative. John Logie Baird with his transmitting station on March 19, ...

Erie's Paul Siple was a polar explorer and geographer who accompanied Richard Byrd to the Antarctic. Wind chill was first ...

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Students, parents and school principals all instinctively know that some teachers are better than others. Education researchers have spent decades trying — with mixed success — to calculate exactly ...

Ah, the yellow light. You know, that signal that is supposed to let you know to slow down as you approach the intersection, but makes you speed up instead? You probably take it for granted, but ...

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 ...

In 2025, the edges of mathematics came a little more sharply into view when members of the online Busy Beaver Challenge community closed in on a huge number that threatens to defy the logical ...

When people name the most important inventions in history, light bulbs are usually on the list. They were much safer than earlier light sources, and they made more activities, for both work and play, ...

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