American inventors have transformed the world with innovations like the light bulb, the transistor and the pacemaker. But they also dreamed up the dog umbrella, Silly Putty and the Pet Rock.

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In the summer of 1944, American tanks were being destroyed in Normandy despite overwhelming Allied strength. This story follows Sergeant Curtis Culin and a field-built invention that changed how U.S.

Rinard Ford filed a patent for a new head-up display to be implemented through a car's sun visor. The new design aims to solve issues with traditional displays, such as difficulty reading in strong ...

Unless you worked for Ford’s plastics, paint and vinyls division in the 1980s, you probably don’t know the name Jim Moylan. But you might well know the idea that made this unknown engineer who ...

Golden apple snails have eyes that are similar to humans’—and they can regenerate an amputated eye in just a month. Scientists uncovered a gene related to that process, laying the groundwork for more ...

Trump Media & Technology Group, the social media and crypto company part owned by President Trump, said it would help develop a “utility-scale fusion power plant.” By Matthew Goldstein Jonathan Wolfe ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For every groundbreaking creation humanity has ever cooked up, there’s at least one fever dream-y invention that leaves you ...

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