A study published in 2022 showed it could achieve an average plaque retention of 22.4%, which was considered to be ‘good oral hygiene’ equivalent to or better than handheld brushing. The latest ...

Nandan Nilekani built Aadhaar, India’s vast digital biometric identity system. Now he wants to Aadhaarize the world.

Medical device pioneer Dr. Tom Fogarty — mentor and inventor of the balloon catheter and other tools — has died at the age of ...

Peter Thiel's investment firm, Thiel Capital, announced a new office in Miami amid reports the Republican megadonor is ...

Exams were not invented by any one person, but evolved over centuries from ancient civil service tests—especially China’s imperial examinations—to modern written and standardized assessments with ...

In the summer of 1956, a group of academics—now we’d call them computer scientists but there was no such thing then—met on Dartmouth College campus in New Hampshire to discuss how to make machines ...

Personal Chair of Nineteenth-Century Art, History of Art, University of Edinburgh Before we can answer this question, we need to think about another one: “what is art?” Art is something people make to ...

Detroit's battle cry reverberates with the rumble of eight cylinders — Camaros, Mustangs, Challengers, all burbling that unmistakable muscle-car thunder. The American V8 is an icon, and you'd be ...

Everyone knows we have to thank Thomas Edison for inventing the electric lightbulb, one of the most impactful innovations in human history ... or do we? Regarded by many as the greatest inventor of ...

The history of the first Hemi engine from Dodge is pretty straightforward, but it turns out that the tale behind the first engines with hemispherical combustion chambers requires going down a much ...

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), over 50,000 people have been saved by frontal airbags between 1987 and 2017. Today, these airbag systems are much more complex ...