An invention developed by a business or individual inventor may have great value to that business or individual, either through the commercialization of the invention or by licensing the invention to ...

As technology evolves for devices meant to enable construction in space, so must patent law to protect the intellectual ...

Pitching your invention to a big corporation means convincing the right people that you have an idea worth investing in. You might have difficulty seeing high-ranking executives at a large corporation ...

Utilizing prototypes in physical product development is the key part of the product development process. Strategic, quality and methodical prototyping is the primary differentiator between a ...

Children don't need to be taught how to be creative. We’ve known for decades that creativity is innate. When researchers George Land and Beth Jarman tested preschool age children for creativity in the ...

In one of Aesop’s fables, The Crow and the Pitcher, we are introduced to a thirsty bird. As luck would have it, the bird happens to stumble across a pitcher, which has a pool of water at the bottom.

South Dakota Mines senior Roberto Perez Torres won the 2026 Ann and Dave Braun Student Inventor Award for an ethanol-based ...

In our recent national phenomena there is no other fact so significant, so startling, as the prodigious increase of inventions, both in their number and in their influence over business and daily life ...

Take a look at all of these awesome accidental, serious, and at times funny inventions!

Whether a film is a documentary or a fictional drama, all modern cinema is in a sense docu-fictional, because most viewers know that a documentary is carefully crafted to yield a narrative and that ...

Even if the Earth runs out of oil and gas, and a dense veil of smog plunges the world into darkness, we will still have ...