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Xiulin Ruan, a Purdue University professor of mechanical engineering, holds up his lab’s sample of the whitest paint on record. (Purdue Univ...

Microwaves cook and heat food, boil water and pop popcorn and aren't harder on food than the stove. Credit: GE Live Science : Who ...

Max Valier in a rocket car, circa April 1930. Public Domain / Wikipedia The Independent : Sixteen inventors who were killed by their ow...

The 50 Greatest Breakthroughs Since The Wheel -- The Atlantic Why did it take so long to invent the wheelbarrow? Have we hit peak inno...

MIT’s Freaky Non-Stick Coating Keeps Ketchup Flowing -- Fast Co-Exist Watch never-before-seen videos of an amazing new condiment lubricant t...

Google Honors Gideon Sundback: Father Of The Zipper -- Christian Science Monitor Gideon Sundback is certainly the inventor of the modern ...

Terrafugia's Transition -- a flying car -- takes flight. (Terrafugia / April 3, 2012) Flying Car Is Unveiled, But Really, How Practical ...

A Brief History Of The Parachute -- Popular Mechanics One hundred years ago, an Army daredevil completed the first parachute jump from a pla...

Shut up! Japanese scientists say the 'Speech Jammer' can silence someone almost instantly A Mute Button For People? 'Speech Jamm...

101. Duct Tape NASA astronauts have used it to make repairs on the moon and in space. The MythBusters built a boat and held a car together w...

From Gizmodo: "Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits," Thomas Edison once said. But is hustling all it takes? Is prog...

Winner: With 9581 votes, the medical X-ray radiograph was deemed the most important invention in the Science Museum. From New Scientist: To...

From Live Science: With the recession seemingly on the wane, it is time to tap into that spirit of innovation that has always succeeded in m...

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Language Is The Number #1 Invention From Top Tenz: This list can’t help but be relative and therefore controversial. As always be kind and a...