Around the turn of the century, several financial analyst types came up with a way to analyze the pricing of financial services to account for all the costs of selling the service. The basic invention ...

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Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of ...

The brain does not need its sophisticated cortex to interpret the visual world. A new study published in PLOS Biology ...

About 30 years ago, a 20-something scientist was hard at work on an obscure bit of chemistry. It wasn’t clear that the chemistry would ever have any real-world application, but researchers thought ...

What is the purpose of patenting an invention? Is it a legal formality akin to paperwork? A box to check? No. Intellectual property is a tool to transform a new idea into a product or a service by ...

The humble inventions that power our modern world wouldn’t have been possible without decades of support for early-stage research. In December 1947, three physicists at Bell Telephone ...

The patent-pnding invention provides a new way to operate a cell phone device in an old school manner. In doing so, it only ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Curiosity and innovation are the two most prominent characteristics of inventors and change-makers. A craving to understand the mechanics ...