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Mark Twain sent the following note to the London correspondent of the New York Journal, “The report of my death is greatly exaggerated.” The famous author’s statement informing the newspaper of their ...

Officials are warning people to avoid a rural portion of Wilson Road, where a tractor-trailer carrying ‘blasting agents’ tipped over.

From Edvard Munch's "Scream" and Gustav Vigeland's sculptures to the Nobel Peace Center, Oslo is a treasure trove of sites.

Read on to discover why the inventors of these 19 creations wish they'd left these ideas firmly on the scrap heap. Orville ...

She never earned a PhD — but she earned a Nobel Prize. Born shortly after World War I, Gertrude Elion revolutionized modern medicine with the invention of lifesaving drugs, from leukemia treatments to ...

RELATED: A LOOK AT THE 13 MOST INFLUENTIAL INVENTIONS FROM THE EARLY 1900s From the microwave over to the atomic bomb, the innovation that was birthed out of this decade was equally amazing and ...

Just last year, Kiowa Kavovit, then 6, became the youngest to pitch her invention—a liquid bandage called Boo Boo Goo—on ABC’s "Shark Tank." In the United States, there is no age requirement ...

The first true mechanical copier was manufactured in 1780, when James Watt, who is better known as the inventor of the modern ... he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1921 for having done so.

Emil Adolf von Behring, a German physiologist born on March 15, 1854, holds the historic title of being the very first person to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He received this ...