The long and pricey road to invention

To be granted a patent on an invention is perhaps one of the top achievements for any inventor or researcher, at least on a financial level. The patent holder can license his invention to others, receive royalties or even sell it outright. The prospect of …
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From a Fount of Grief, Endless Invention

As America’s oldest modern dance troupe, the Martha Graham Dance Company devotes much effort to maintaining traditions. A project called “Lamentation Variations” was not supposed to be one of them. The opening night of the company’s 2007 New York …
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These Priests’ Invention Could Help Us Drill Into Icy Alien Worlds Someday

Jarl-Joset Station 9,000 feet up on the Greenland Ice Sheet, where Karl Philberth tested his probe – a forerunner of modern cryobots. The stations’ buildings, already being overtaken by snow as shown here, were gradually buried and crushed in the years …
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Guest post: Adoption, not invention, is key to technology success

Around the world, governments are jostling to be at the forefront of new technologies. Policies range from tax breaks, research grants, and science parks to subsidising innovative start-ups and favouring domestic firms when buying technology. Some of this …
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Man’s basic invention levels Destiny character while he sleeps

Skill, in Destiny? This guy levels in his sleep. That’s because he’s built a little mechanism that presses the shoulder button on his Xbox One pad over and over again. He punches, enemies run at him, he punches one or two dead, then he dies. Then he spawns …
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How to Recreate a Sloppy Ancient Greek Drinking Game

NEW ORLEANS — More than 2,000 years before the invention of beer pong, the ancient Greeks had a game called kottabos to pass the time at their drinking parties. At Greek symposia, elite men, young and old, reclined on cushioned couches that lined the …
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