On a chill winter night in 1920, according to an account in the October 1933 issue of Modern Mechanix magazine, with the wind whistling through the darkness outside of his Menlo Park, New Jersey, ...

Did Thomas Edison pave the way for today's EduTubers? Danielle tracks the path from Edison's Christmas light demonstrations in the late 19th century all the way to the science explainer videos of ...

Karoline Tyrrell loves popcorn, but she didn't love the disappointing unpopped kernels at the bottom of the bag. So Tyrrell, a seventh-grader at Summit Christian School, decided to devise an ...

On Thursday night, some of Southwest Florida's brightest middle and high school students scored a little cash to make a dent in their future college costs.The Thomas Alva Edison Kiwanis Science and ...

The earliest known lamps are some 40,000 years old. Cave dwellers in Western Europe made them by hollowing out stones, and burning animal fat through a wick made of moss. Light is an essential part of ...

Millions of people around the globe swear by the effectiveness of the so-called power nap. Just 10 to 20 minutes of shut-eye during the day is claimed by many to rejuvenate the body and bolster the ...