The icy Fischli/Weiss art installation on top of the Art Institute survived the swelter of the Windy City and will go on display next in San Francisco
Émile Baudot, born a year after the first long-distance telegraph message was sent, helped advance the technology
After 25 years and millions of dollars, the coast-to-coast hiking, biking and paddling trail has an official route
She was the first female telephone operator. Before her, telephone operators were teenaged boys. That didn't go so well
The term 'magic bullet' once just meant a targeted drug
The original vacuum cleaner required a number of improvements before becoming the household staple it is today
Impatient readers can quench their thirst with the awkward, yet fascinating, prose of a neural network trained on George R.R. Martin
The first 'can opener' was a hammer and chisel
From humble origins, this ancient punctuation mark has gained new life as a symbol to connect us all on social media
A Kent State archaeologist is testing the innovative engineering of the Clovis people, one of the earliest communities to inhabit North America
William Seward Burroughs (no, not that one) was the first man to invent a commercially practical calculator
You could say the first Mayo Clinic was a dance hall that had been converted into a makeshift field hospital
"The Sands," currently on view at Essex Flowers, projects elaborate creations in a physically empty space
It took multiple attempts—and two broken printers—to get the recreations right
The global collaboration features five of the six surviving canvases
Made from powdered organs, the flexible paper could be used as a sophisticated bandage during surgery
The upcoming retrospective couples works by the famed modernist with the museum's first VR experience
'Vasa' sunk in front of horrified onlookers on this day in 1628, claiming 30 lives
It's 2000 B.C. and you have a headache. Grab the willow bark
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