Modern humans have existed for around 300,000 years, and in all the time we've been here, we've made a lot of things. In the early days, homo sapiens fashioned tools from flint and other materials, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many of the daily items we use today are the result of decades of research, perseverance and ...

Looking through the rubble of ancient civilizations, archaeologists have uncovered inventions so sophisticated they challenge everything we think we know about technological progress. While we often ...

How do inventions happen? NPR's Planet Money's team brings us the history of one underappreciated invention that has enabled countless other inventions, from the Phillips screwdriver to Bluetooth. You ...

An invention at the heart of our modern world helped create radios, cars and smartphones. The team from Planet Money traces the origins back to a fight over who invented the sewing machine. How do ...