Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

It’s been said, “Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door. Build a better tomato cage, and gardeners will beat a path to your yard.’’ That's the hope of Dave Schemmel, of ...

This article continues our Earth Day 2013 series with a look at the IPO Inventor of the Year Awards. Four times over the past nine years the Intellectual Property Owners (IPO) Education Foundation has ...

The late Dr. James Robert Cade, lead inventor behind Gatorade, was honored with the Great Floridian award Thursday, which would have been his 86th birthday. The Cade Museum in Gainesville, where the ...

Twice as fast as an airplane, cheaper than a bullet train and completely self-powered: that’s the mysterious transportation system that inventor and entrepreneur Elon Musk is promising to reveal ...

When Dyson, the eponymous firm of inventor Sir James Dyson, announced that it would be releasing three new products today, I was intrigued. After all, the company, which first made a name for itself ...

The War at Zabar’s Can three feuding partners ruin the world’s greatest deli?

Forty years ago this month, Motorola engineer Martin Cooper changed the world by making the world's first cell phone call. He stood on a New York City street on April 3, 1973, with a 10-inch-long, 2.5 ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Kodak today announced that renowned author, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil will keynote its Global Directions 2013 conference—an annual technology and ...

WHITPAIN – Steve Bailey is a real stand-up kind of guy. The IT consultant even likes to work in the standing position much of the time, towering over his drafting board. So leave it to this chess ...

In California in the early 1980s, a cracked tooth sent Mike Williams to the dentist's office. When Williams asked to see the tooth, the dentist said he had a mirror but that there was no camera or ...

Not many innovators attain legend status, but Nikola Tesla – who died penniless, yet made all of our electrical appliances possible – is definitely one of them. It's 1894, and a tall, handsome, ...