The Middle Ages often lives in our imagination as a foggy era filled with armored knights, unwashed peasants, gloomy castles, and cruel torture devices. Popular media paints it as a time when people ...

Nov 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued new guidelines on Wednesday outlining when inventions created with the help of artificial intelligence can be patented. USPTO Director ...

In medieval times, warfare saw the emergence of remarkable yet often overlooked superweapons. Greek fire, a Byzantine invention, was a mysterious and devastating flammable liquid. Its composition, a ...

In the 13th century, Dominican friar Richard Fishacre boldly challenged established scientific doctrines by proposing that celestial bodies were composed of the same earthly elements, a claim that ...

The medieval period saw the rise of many new inventions all around the world. Emerging out of the so-called Dark Ages, many prominent scholars and learned minds came up with new inventions to make the ...

Read TIME's exclusive feature on the Figure 03 here. The Figure 03 is a humanoid robot with a lofty goal. The company that makes it, Figure AI, wants to build a machine in the form of a human being, ...

The pipes of a medieval organ, buried for centuries and discovered near the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, are once more filling a Jerusalem monastery with ancient ...

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "We wanted to create a medieval theme board game to enjoy with family and friends," said one of two inventors, from Benton Harbor, Mich., "so we invented the ...

The Middle Ages were far stranger - and more fascinating - than most people realize. In this video, we uncover five surprising facts about medieval life, from bizarre hygiene habits to unexpected ...

An etching of Guido d’Arezzo, from an early 20th century book (Photo: Volodymyr Polotovskyi/Dreamstime) Guido’s work quickly spread through monasteries and ...