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As a boy growing up in the United Kingdom, my learning often began once school was dismissed. On any given day, I could be found disassembling machines—stripping lawn mowers down to parts, then ...

Your heart runs on electricity! Discover how tiny sparks keep it beating — and how Buffalo inventor Wilson Greatbatch’s “happy accident” led to the pacemaker, a life-saving device that changed ...

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WYNNEWOOD, PA — George Prendergast, PhD, president and chief executive officer of Lankenau Institute for Medical Research, has been elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, a distinction ...

Inventor Julian Brown shocked the world when he introduced what he calls the world’s first solar continuous microwave pyrolysis reactor, a machine that can convert plastic waste into usable fuel using ...