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 ...

Huge reserves of energy from the world's largest battery, unique vertical aerial farms and concrete capable of absorbing ...

Realizing that it will only get worse, many countries in the world have begun their transition into a green economy. They ...

This realization led to the pacemaker in 1951. What he was trying to make: During World War II, the US government needed rubber for airplane tires, boots for soldiers, and the like. Wright was ...

The personal computer, or PC, revolutionised the world in the 1980s ... It’s hard to believe how much our lives have changed in the last 10 years or so since the first iPhone was released.

One of the biggest revolutions in the world of inventions has been in television ... Cloth is now being used in medicine, industry and sport to change our lives for the better.

In this article, we explore ten such inventions that, despite their potential, didn't change the world as anticipated. When the Segway was unveiled in 2001, it was touted as a revolutionary mode ...

He changed the way we see ... of no man's land” this is what our Dublin boy came up with. The World Wars might have been very different without his invention. Though modern tanks might look ...

But other fields, like engineering and computer science — which tend to be more lucrative, and have more opportunity for invention ... “And our expectations for girls is not that they ...

From life-saving devices to modern conveniences, this eight-part series reveals a raft of great Australian inventors who turned game-changing ideas into a reality and forever changed how we live.

Necessity isn't always the mother of invention. Lots of the things we rely on to cure our diseases, cook our meals, and sweeten our days weren't deliberately designed. Instead, they were a happy ...