Mark Wolverton

In a top-secret program, talented, young female mathematicians calculated the artillery and bomb trajectories that American GIs and airmen used to win World War II.

Combining car and plane into a single vehicle remains a dream—but new efforts might change that

Many scientists heralded the invention of the laser five decades ago as a "solution in search of a problem"—but today it is used in most parts of our daily lives

Sporting its sophisticated wing sail—more aircraft wing than traditional sail—USA-17 blew the competition out of the water in the recent America's Cup race

Four decades ago, two physicists at Bell Laboratories stumbled upon a means of capturing light and turning it into data with a small piece of silicon, an invention that would revolutionize our daily lives

From a few notes scribbled on a notepad, Ralph Baer invented a new industry