Scientists at United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) have designed and patented an invention that uses science to predict the future. The invention aims to predict when a machine might break down, ...

About 30 years ago, a 20-something scientist was hard at work on an obscure bit of chemistry. It wasn’t clear that the chemistry would ever have any real-world application, but researchers thought ...

A fter more than fifty years of uninterrupted fertility in invention, during which he has not only begotten but continuously fathered the electrical era, Thomas Alva Edison believes that we have only ...

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