SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- Electrical engineer Tom Zimmerman holds a long list of patents. His latest invention, developed in his lab at IBM's Almaden Research Center in south San Jose, could become a ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A 23-year-old Olympia man who studied mechanical engineering at the University of Washington is finding a market for his invention — lenses that turn your cellphone into a ...

The 'Art of Invention' is the name of an exhibit which opened last week at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Museum in Alexandria, Virginia. This exhibit, which will last one year, is featuring 70 works ...

Manu Prakash is the co-inventor of the Foldscope, a low-cost microscope aimed at making scientific tools available for everyone. We chat with him about why he wants to change how we think about ...

PHOENIX — An innovative and affordable way to detect blood disease could be on the horizon thanks to a Valley inventor who’s still in high school. Ella Wang took a trip to India a few years ago having ...

Ring camera captures the moment a small plane crashes into a home ...

From the atomic force microscope to light-emitting diodes, UC Santa Barbara has cemented its place as a world leader in scientific advancements and inventions. Now, thanks to UCSB's growing research ...

"This invention relates to devices for preventing shoes from losing their shape and becoming creased and more particularly to that class of devices which are applied to the shoe externally for the ...

The human pursuit to unravel what cannot be seen has been the driving force behind almost every great invention that improves our lives today. This inclination to be curious also led to the invention ...

The invention that first enabled researchers to see clear images of living cells was the phase-contrast microscope, which won its inventor, Frits Zernike, a Nobel Prize in 1932. Prior to Zernike's ...