The Chinese Communist Party has embraced the study of Greek and Latin—as, in some ways, an antidote to the modern West.

Inside Beijing's conference rooms, the final draft of China's 15th Five-Year Plan is being scrutinized. A centerpiece of the top-level roadmap sets out a profound internal gear shift to transform the ...

It's really women innovators who have created the idea of a dishwasher, fridge, coffee filter, juicer, and toaster we use in our kitchens.

In the early 20th century, engineer Thomas Midgley Jr. helped create two innovations that would transform modern life—and later become some of the most damaging environmental mistakes in history. His ...

South Asia Expo in Kunming, southwest China's Yunnan Province, June 22, 2025. (Xinhua/Chen Xinbo) * A centerpiece of the top-level ...

On International Women’s Day, we recognize and celebrate the incredible contributions of women throughout history. Women have ...

Videos show Citroëns, a Mini, even a boat and trailer getting the trebuchet treatment. (A trebuchet is like a catapult, but made differently.) ...

It was, Anthropic declared, “the first documented case of a large-scale cyberattack executed without substantial human intervention.” This assault on U.S. infrastructure was innovative in its use of ...

For Rooney, the history of timekeeping has many pivotal moments - but three he picks out when talking to DCD are the invention of the pendulum and the balance spring in the 1600s, and centuries later, ...

Overall, public R&D has a rate of return of 140-210%, they concluded. Crucially, this is a much higher estimate than the 30-70% rates of return economists calculate for private R&D, said Fieldhouse.

Efficiency is central to economics and often used to justify the push for frictionless markets and just-in-time supply chains ...