All inventions cause the world to react in one way or another. In many cases, discoveries push the boundaries of human output ...

Every year, TIME selects the best inventions that are making the world better, smarter and—in some cases—a little more fun. In the past, we’ve featured everything from the real-life hoverboard to the ...

Revolutionary inventions from the 1920s, including medical breakthroughs like insulin and everyday innovations like Band-Aids, sliced bread, and the polygraph.

A portable device that can assess heart disease more accurately than a conventional electrocardiogram, a method that may lead scientists to a better understanding of Earth’s origins and help locate ...