About 30 years ago, a 20-something scientist was hard at work on an obscure bit of chemistry. It wasn’t clear that the chemistry would ever have any real-world application, but researchers thought ...

Trying to imagine life in the distant future means accepting one simple truth: the world will demand solutions to problems that don’t even exist yet. As technology pushes further into uncharted ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Steve Anderson In a world ...

From the Wright brothers' first flight to the speedy development of COVID-19 vaccines, collaboration has been key to innovation. Paradoxically, even competitors can benefit from collaboration—when ...

You know that feeling when you try to do a good thing and then accidentally scorch the entire planet? Yeah, the future can be terrifying. Lasers. Artificial intelligence. Nanotechnology. Soon, science ...

The University of South Florida hosted the second annual Invention Convention Florida at the University of South Florida on April 11, bringing together 180 K–12 student inventors from across the state ...

Robert Susa is the President of InventHelp, where he has long focused on supporting inventors in the invention process. He is ...