British merchant Peter Durand made a huge stride in food preservation with his 1810 invention of the can. Canned rations provided to soldiers and explorers saved legions from sure starvation. So ...

A popular claim circulating on the internet alleges a forgotten Black inventor named Willie "Tech-Man" Jenkins was largely responsible for the creation of modern drone technology. The post read in ...

Nikola Tesla, one of the most brilliant inventors in history, left behind countless ideas and blueprints that were ahead of his time. Among these was a mysterious invention, often overlooked or ...

From precision tools to mysterious mechanisms, the British Museum holds artifacts that hint at advanced ancient knowledge. You just have to know what to look for.

Sign up for Derek’s newsletter here. What if we invented a technology to save the planet—and the world refused to use it? This haunting hypothetical first popped ...