From the lightbulb to the airplane, to medical breakthroughs and the internet age, the past 250 years have been defined by ...

Explore landmark American inventions from Eli Whitney’s cotton gin to the Wright brothers’ airplane and Jonas Salk’s polio ...

Thomas Edison conducted tens of thousands of experiments in his lab in West Orange, New Jersey. See what a day's work looked ...

What makes something alive? We simply don't know, but synthetic biologists are a step closer to providing an answer thanks to ...

From chemical building blocks, scientists have created synthetic cells that have most of the hallmarks of life.

The human-made cells show many hallmarks of life, but they can't make all their necessary internal structures or divide for ...

We're honoring America's 250th anniversary by rounding up the most life-changing medical inventions from right here in the USA. In our modern lives, it’s hard to imagine surgery without anesthesia, ...