Time magazine's annual list of the world's best inventions spotlighted smartphone brands Huawei and Honor, writes ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK.

Forgotten to history, Thomas Edison once sought to build a "spirit phone" to allow the living to communicate with the dead.

Plain common sense teaches any man that it is foolishness itself to prefer an invention merely because it is new, and deride another merely because it is old. We are also advocates of all that is ...

Photographs by Jo Whaley for TIME; Inventions from left: On Cloudboom Strike LightSpray, Medical Microinstruments Symani Surgical System, Agility Robotics Digit holding Light Bio Firefly Petunias ...

Every year for over two decades, TIME editors have highlighted the most impactful new products and ideas in TIME’s Best Inventions issue. To compile this year's list, we solicited nominations ...

Tom Grainger, senior director of business development and investor relations, demonstrates the magnetism of iron nitride powder, on a tour at Niron Magnetics in Minneapolis earlier this month ...

There was a lack of clear criteria in China’s patent practice for determining whether an AI invention constitutes a technical solution, given the abstract, complex, and unobservable nature of AI ...

The invention comes from researchers at Australia's RMIT University and was developed in collaboration with Latvia's Riga Technical University. The main innovation is in fabricating patches made ...

This new process is being pushed by a California-based startup, Equatic, with support from ARPA-E, and the group plans to sell the hydrogen created by its invention to help offset the cost of the ...