The greatest tools in history do more than solve common problems. They redefine and reshape humanity. The wheel provided us with motion, the printing press with freedom of thought, and the microchip ...

Who was Lise Meitner? Who was Muhammad al-Idrisi? The first was a pioneering female chemist from Austria who was denied her share of a Nobel Prize. The latter, a 12th-century geographer, created one ...

A pair of adorably inept playwrights perform a backer’s audition for their new, hilariously ill-advised production. It’s a big splashy musical about printing press inventor Johan Gutenberg, with a lot ...