We love it when smart people invent smart things to make everyone’s lives better. If you think about it, it only takes one ...

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This story appears in the June 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Thomas Edison liked to say that he never failed. He succeeded every now and again with an invention that would change the ...

Usually with video games, all the fun happens on the players’ screens. Not so with Nintendo Labo ($60 and up), a set of kits allowing DIY-inclined gamers to construct their own cardboard ...

Germans have invented many things we couldn’t live without anymore. We’ve limited a very long list to our personal “TOP 40 Inventions, Discoveries and Breakthroughs”. We hope not to have missed the ...

The pedal “swells, sags, smooths, pans, and filters”, promising to bring your clean tone to life like never before ...

For example, ‘a wheelbarrow’ and ‘a brush’ may be picked, so the invention could be ‘a wheelbarrow which brushes leaves as you push it’. Challenge students to think of their own ...

Whether it’s annoying or not, that music that pours through our earbuds or speakers on our phones while we’re on hold is ...

Do Try This at Home! Try your hand at these fun activities from the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation Explore, Discover, Learn: Back to School with the Smithsonian Our ...

In Cue the Sun!, Emily Nussbaum pulls nuggets of truth from the history of the notorious genre to illuminate what keeps ...