Tag: Invention
AI scores in the top percentile of creative thinking
Erik Guzik, University of Montana
Of all the forms of human intellect that one might expect artificial intelligence to...
How Cup Noodles became one of the biggest transpacific business success...
Alisa Freedman, University of Oregon
See a container of Cup Noodles at a convenience store and you might think...
Curved origami offers a creative route to making robots and other...
Hanqing Jiang, Arizona State University and Zirui Zhai, Arizona State University
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big idea
Building robotic...
Smart concrete could pave the way for high-tech, cost-effective roads
Luna Lu, Purdue University and Vishal Saravade, Purdue University
Every day, Americans travel on roads, bridges and highways without considering the safety or reliability of...
Blue dye from red beets – chemists devise a new pigment...
Erick Leite Bastos, Universidade de São Paulo
What’s your favorite color? If you answered blue, you’re in good company. Blue outranks all other color preferences...
Vaccines without needles – new shelf-stable film could revolutionize how medicines...
Maria Croyle, University of Texas at Austin
The race is on to identify an effective vaccine for the COVID-19 virus. Once discovered, the next challenge...
Why some counties are powerhouses for innovation
Christopher Boone, Arizona State University
By the time the application window closed, Amazon had received 238 proposals from cities and regions throughout North America looking...
From slag to swag: The story of Earl Tupper’s fantastic plastics
Marsha Bryant, University of Florida
When “American Horror Story,” the Museum of Modern Art and “Napoleon Dynamite” pay homage to an invention, you know it’s...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
