American inventors have transformed the world with innovations like the light bulb, the transistor and the pacemaker. But they also dreamed up the dog umbrella, Silly Putty and the Pet Rock.

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Students at Berlin High School are working on limiting the effects of white-nose syndrome, a deadly disease in bat ...

Born in La Crosse in September 1886, Reuben Trane will be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame as part of the ...

Robots, artificial intelligence and the good old-fashioned light bulb were some of the inventions explored by students of ...

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Ah, the yellow light. You know, that signal that is supposed to let you know to slow down as you approach the intersection, but makes you speed up instead? You probably take it for granted, but ...