Aug. 22—Kids headed back into the classroom this week, many carrying carefully chosen and must-have supplies ready for the new year ahead. Many of those items have their roots in the inventions of a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's been a little more than 45 years since I did an article about Joseph R. Winters, who I've always considered to be a unique ...

Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) usually makes an appearance in histories of science as the person who isolated and described eight “airs” (gasses), including oxygen. Trivia buffs may know him as the guy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 22—Kids headed back into the classroom this week, many carrying carefully chosen and must-have supplies ready for the new ...