It isn’t hard to think that Jeff Bezos left his role as Amazon.com’s CEO to enjoy a slower life filled with yachting and celebrity parties. But he would most certainly object to that characterization.

Tim Berners-Lee may have the smallest fame-to-impact ratio of anyone living. Strangers hardly ever recognize his face; on “Jeopardy!,” his name usually goes for at least sixteen hundred dollars.

Scientists deal with the new and surprising on an almost daily basis, and sometimes these discoveries can lead to inventions, such as a new molecule, process or an original device. Improvements, even ...

Donald Trump has had a fascination with words recently. First, it was groceries. On Monday, the president claimed he invented a “new word” while talking about his proposal to lower drug prices by 80%.

The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality. By Hanno Sauer. Translated by Jo Heinrich. Oxford University Press; 416 pages; $29.99. Profile; £25 Trial by boiling water was not as bad ...

While the exact date at which human beings began to run remains shrouded in the mysteries of time, evolutionary biologists believe it to be about 2 to 3 million years ago. Dan Lieberman, a professor ...

Chainsaws were not designed for cutting down trees, pruning wood, or used for anything you’ve seen in horror movies. Believe it or not, the earliest chainsaws were designed for medical reasons. Here’s ...

One of the things that we’re working on right now at MIT is a tool that will help all kinds of people to create more applications based on the new technology that we have. There’s so much coming out ...

Oluwatokiloba, a freelance creative writer and editor living in Lagos, strikes a delicate balance between his academic studies at the University of Lagos and his love for writing. He is a voracious ...

This playful movie uses stop-motion and hand-drawn animation to pay homage to Leonardo as a thinker and tinkerer. By Lisa Kennedy When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through ...

Jim Capobianco and Pierre-Luc Grandjon's playful animated feature concerns the later years of the artist. By Frank Scheck It’s rare that animated films set out to be educational. But that is exactly ...