Imagine waking up one morning, turning on your phone, and finding it has no Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. After you eat breakfast, you ...

Around the world and across history, innovative women have imagined, developed, tested and perfected their creations. Yet ...

On May 5, 1809, Mary Kies became the first woman to receive a patent in the United States. (It was for her technique of weaving straw with silk.) Of course, women inventors existed before this time, ...

Thanks to Mary Engle Pennington (1872 - 1952) we don’t all have to be farmers to eat fresh food. Her scientific work in ensuring the safe transport of perishable foods (like eggs!) focused on ...

While innovation is core to American identity, women inventors were named on only 13% of 2019 U.S. patents. In part, that's because women's patents are less likely to make it through the examination ...

If you've used Wi-Fi, windshield wipers or a dishwasher -- and who hasn't? -- you have a woman to thank. Male inventors such as Henry Ford, Nikola Tesla and Alexander Graham Bell get all the press.

Yes, you do. You need one of those things that you don’t know where to get. A thingamabob that doesn’t exist. A whatchamacallit that hasn’t yet been created, but you can see it in your mind’s eye.