Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Human technology isn’t as far removed from science fiction as we might think. Although many of the concepts that science fiction ...

Reading without seeing the text, extracting water from air, bringing sunlight to a basement, or communicating with a humanoid robot... These are not excerpts from a science fiction novel. All of this ...

For each of the past 25 years, TIME editors have highlighted the most impactful new products and ideas in TIME’s Best Inventions issue. The first, published under a cover featuring the protracted Bush ...