It’s Australia Day and while we’re celebrating what a great country we live in let’s also reflect the technology we invented ...

Cardiac device therapy has significantly evolved since the introduction of the first implantable pacemaker and the subsequent ...

By the end of last year, Time magazine compiled a list of the most promising innovations for 2025, Azernews reports.

Some of the most revolutionary breakthroughs in human history weren’t planned in boardrooms or laboratories. They happened because someone noticed something strange, left a window open, or dropped ...

Unless you worked for Ford’s plastics, paint and vinyls division in the 1980s, you probably don’t know the name Jim Moylan. But you might well know the idea that made this unknown engineer who ...

What does Frankenstein have to do with saving lives? A lot more than you think. Inspired by the classic horror film, Earl Bakken, inventor of the first wearable pacemaker, credited Frankenstein for ...

A new in-wheel motor for electric vehicles (EVs) delivers a massive amount of torque in a lightweight package, its developers say. The motor — which was made by YASA, a subsidiary of Mercedes-Benz ...

Dr. Lamas, a contributing Opinion writer, is a pulmonary and critical care physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. One night a few years ago, I watched a young man die over the course of ...

While generative AI systems cannot be considered inventors under US patent laws, the US Patent and Trademark Office has updated its guidelines on how they can be used in the process of creating ...

When Aurora Ernzen was just 5 days old, doctors performed surgery to insert a pacemaker in her chest. The device was new, permitted through emergency use guidelines from the U.S. Food and Drug ...

Monica Jones was named CEO of the National Inventors Hall of Fame in September after joining the organization in 2011. The National Inventors Hall of Fame aims to honor inventors and inspire future ...

Your heart runs on electricity! Discover how tiny sparks keep it beating — and how Buffalo inventor Wilson Greatbatch’s “happy accident” led to the pacemaker, a life-saving device that changed ...