The late Leslie Epstein, son and nephew of Julius and Philip respectively, tells Louis Harnett O’Meara about the twins’ hijinks and the challenges involved in the making of an all-time classic. An ...

The Quote of the Day by Albert Einstein, “Man invented the atomic bomb but no mouse in the world would ever build a mousetrap,” reflects on the contradiction of human intelligence. The physicist used ...

I spoke to an AT&T archivist about Alexander Graham Bell's famous transmission. Even though calls have changed, the reasons ...

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Kismai is a savant when it comes to getting clothes clean.

In the 1970s, some basic ideas in supposedly useless number theory were deployed by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman. They developed the RSA algorithm, which enables public key cryptography, ...

Apple CEO Tim Cook today shared a "50 Years of Thinking Different" letter, ahead of the company's 50th anniversary on April 1, 2026. The letter touches on the upcoming 50th anniversary and says that ...

Oscars love their biopics, and the best actor category proves it. Here's the best of the best from the past 25 years, including Will, Denzel and Leo.

Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on March 3, 1847 (he died in Beinn Bhreagh, Canada, on August 2, 1922) ...

Classicist, philosopher, wit, and one of the greatest British computer scientists of all time Obit Professor Charles Anthony Richard Hoare has died at the age of 92. Known to many computer science ...

From rapper-turned-politician to social activist viral on social media, and promoter of education and scientific inventions ...