Halloween is right around the corner, and just as there are usually Halloween invites aplenty, there's also a hell of a lot of options when it comes to what you dress up as. In recent years, actual ...

Last night at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery, the old home of the original Patent and Trademark Office, the Intellectual Property Owners Education Foundation (IPOEF) ...

Millions of childhood backyard football memories can be credited to a former NFL kicker who helped create one of the most lasting and beloved toys ever invented. Fred Cox, who kicked 15 years for the ...

Dick Stevenson, the inventor of the “Sourtoe Cocktail” that delighted and disgusted patrons at a hotel bar in the Yukon for decades, has died. He was 89. The tradition dates back to 1973 when ...

SARASOTA, Fla. — The man who invented the classic board game "Operation" and the story of how he sold the patent for the game and never saw any of its future profits is the subject of a new ...

DJ Patil, the first White House chief data scientist under former President Barack Obama. abin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images If you have paid even the slightest attention to the job ...

Mary Anderson, born in 1866 in Greene County, Ala., had an idea to clean windshields of the new “horseless carriages” that were gaining popularity. She followed through by creating a design and having ...

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands — A young Dutch inventor is widening his effort to clean up floating plastic from the Pacific Ocean by moving into rivers, too, using a new floating device to catch garbage ...

It’s no ode to Joy. Miracle Mop maker Joy Mangano — portrayed by Jennifer Lawrence in the hit 2015 Hollywood film about her life, “Joy” — wrongly used a “high end” font for her new logo, according to ...

ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS >> Dutch inventor Boyan Slat is widening his effort to clean up floating plastic from the Pacific Ocean by moving into rivers, too, using a new floating device to catch garbage ...