This year, the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded one half to Joel Mokyr for identifying the societal prerequisites ...

Remember when the first player piano hit the saloons in the 1800s? Folks were unsettled, even spooked. Some swore it was the ...

Back in the late 1700s, doctors created a hand-operated medical instrument for cutting through bone. They discovered they ...

A historical marker was installed at the YWCA on King Drive to honor the former site of a Chinese laundry and the importance ...

If you graph the history of economic growth, it looks a lot like a hockey stick laid on the ground with its blade sticking up ...

America is a melting pot of other global cuisines, but lots of dishes were created here, too. Here are 12 foods invented in ...

Space power is central to communication, navigation, and surveillance. China’s “Space Silk Road” envisions orbital highways of satellites as critical to global influence, much as maritime routes once ...

Chocolate chips were invented after chocolate chip cookies. The chocolate chip cookie is the most popular kind of cookie in ...

Some candies our parents and grandparents enjoyed were quite different to what's popular now. Here are a few old favorites, ...

In the mountains of Tennessee, not far from Chattanooga, there is the Raccoon Mountain picturesque hydroelectric power plant. This is a water reservoir that is located on more than 500 hectares. The ...

Today’s instability stems from physical limits on affordable energy, which undermine debt-driven complexity and push ...

Traveling just about anywhere in America today is trivial for most people. No matter where you want to go, there’s going to ...