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 ...

What does it take to come up with an invention or a new idea nobody has ... is working on what will be the UK’s - and one of the world’s - most powerful supercomputers, with the potential ...

the fascinating concept of cultural and natural world heritage was ‘invented’. Why the term ‘invention’? For the antique orator, invention was the discovery and striking presentation of something new; ...

You may think that this invention is a relic of the past. Yes, it dragged Britain into the Industrial era and made us an economic world leader, but surely the world has moved on since? In fact ...