Many of the gameplay features we take for granted today had to start somewhere! Here are 9 games that invented famous ...

Jon por Birgisson of Sigur Ros performs at the Coachella Festival in 2010. Photo by Karl Walter/Getty Images Many musicians sound like they’re singing in an otherworldly tongue; relatively few ...

On a trip to New York City in 1902, Mary Anderson realized what a nuisance the falling snow was for her streetcar driver. Anderson couldn’t drive, but back home in Birmingham, she sketched up her ...

Who invented metalcore? Or who were the first metalcore bands that coined the genre? Tracking down the origins of "metallic hardcore," as the unabbreviated term initially was known, is a microcosm of ...

We often take for granted all the technological advances that we use on a daily basis, from the moment we get up in the morning and throughout the day. Without gadgets like the alarm clock to make ...

A lot of “American foods” — hamburgers, hot dogs, apple pie — weren’t actually invented in the States. Rather, they were imported from other countries. Americans still have plenty of cuisine to call ...

It is certainly tough to select the countries that have invented the most things in all human history because “things” is a very vague word and “all human history” is a long time span to cover. These ...

On May 5, 1809, Mary Kies became the first woman to receive a patent in the United States. (It was for her technique of weaving straw with silk.) Of course, women inventors existed before this time, ...

One time, I invented socks. True story! I was getting ready to leave the house and I was about to put on these killer (but deeply painful) shoes. As I prematurely mourned the foot-skin I was about to ...

Despite sending humans to Earth's orbit and the moon, the idea of humans surviving in outer space must seem like science fiction. Creating an environment that can sustain human life in the almost ...

Though people have always understood the concept of nothing or having nothing, the concept of zero is relatively new; it fully developed in India around the fifth century A.D., perhaps a couple of ...

Michael Butter receives funding from the German Research Council, the Cooperation of Science and Technology in Europe (COST) and the European Research Council. Conspiracy theories have a long history, ...