14-year-old Sioux Falls TV star got her invention patented

Allie Weber, 14, owns a patent for her “Frost Stopper” gloves she designed as a fifth-grader for the Spark Lab Global Invent-It Challenge. Weber’s gloves are temperature sensing and have a built in …
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Businessman carrying invention forward after Virginia Tech researcher’s death

BLACKSBURG — The final inventions of a Virginia Tech researcher who died in 2012 are about to come to life for the first time in one of the university’s labs. Arthur Squires, a distinguished professor …
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Central Kalimantan high schoolers win invention olympic gold medal in South Korea for cancer medication

Three high-school students from SMA 2 state high school in Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, have won a gold medal at the World Invention Creativity Olympic (WICO) in Seoul for a herbal tea they …
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How the Invention of Spreadsheet Software Unleashed Wall Street on the World

In 2010, a pair of researchers published a controversial economics paper. It was cited by UK politicians to justify austerity measures that sparked economic and employment crises, and anti …
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Can Anyone Be an Inventor? Why MIT’s Invention Education Officer Says Yes

When you hear the word “invention,” what comes to mind? The lightbulb? Telephone? Maybe the airplane? These were groundbreaking inventions that fundamentally changed the way we live and communicate …
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The Guardian view on Boris Johnson’s prison policy: a fantasy built on an invention

‘Prison spending is not just about buildings. It is about training and employing people to work in them.’ Photograph: Andrew Aitchison/Corbis via Getty Images When politicians make summer law and …
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