Paul A. Offit, MD, one of Medscape's Infectious Disease advisors and an accomplished author, just wrote a new book, Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong. In a recent phone call with Dr ...

Technological innovations can seem relentless. In computing, some have proclaimed that "a year in machine learning is a ...

History is rich with examples of scientific discoveries that have contributed to the wider development of breakthrough inventions in the health, energy, transport, and telecommunications industries, ...

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 ...

In 2024, not one but two Nobel Prizes (in Chemistry and Physics) were awarded to researchers for their work in artificial intelligence ("AI"). Particularly noteworthy for the life science community is ...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — Four Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists are now considered distinguished inventors. To be considered a distinguished inventor, they need to successfully get at least 14 ...

CHAMPAIGN - Fifth graders at Dr. Howard Elementary in Champaign practiced their problem solving skills Friday. Students presented scientific inventions at "Invent-o-rama." The goal was to mix gifted ...

Human technology isn’t as far removed from science fiction as we might think. Although many of the concepts that science fiction works imagine aren’t real, many modern inventions were inspired by the ...

How do you know that someone is “The One?” Gernsback tackled that question in 1924 with an idea for an invention that was supposed to inject some science into the world of romantic attraction. From ...

OpenAI, the artificial-intelligence company behind ChatGPT, made a big splash during the Super Bowl by airing its first ad since launching in 2015. Its big-game commercial featured hundreds of black ...