Maurice Ward was a British hairdresser who invented a material called “Starlite” that he claimed could withstand fire and even nuclear blasts. It drew the attention of Boeing, NASA, and the British ...

A mystery invention, code-named Ginger and said to be as significant as the World Wide Web, has thrown the down-on-its-luck tech community into a tizzy even though few have any solid idea what it is.

Ridgetop Group, Inc., of Tucson, AZ, a fast-growing high-technology firm, has received U.S. Patent 7,239,163, Die-level process monitor and method. Ridgetop’s invention provides a means for ...

Virtually every opera has romance at its heart, but few have a science-fiction element. Recent local productions based on H.G. Wells’s “The War of the Worlds” and the 1986 movie “The Fly” are rare ...