Every morning, we wake up surrounded by inventions that make life easier. We switch on lights, use mobile phones, brush our teeth, write with pens and travel using machines that were created through ...

The strangest thing about modern inventions is how quickly they stop feeling new. One day they seem unnecessary or even ridiculous, and a few years later people can't imagine functioning without them.

In 1958, during the height of the Cold War, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed what was known as the National Aeronautics and Space Act into law. The goal of the legislation was to create an agency ...