According to new research from Rice University, while Edison’s goal was simply to create a longer-lasting electric lamp, the ...

Inventor Thomas Edison is known for being ahead of his time, and a new study could add another notch to his overachieving ...

More than a century before graphene was isolated in a modern lab, Thomas Edison may have been unknowingly making the wonder ...

To reproduce what Thomas Edison did, with the tools and knowledge we have now, is very exciting,” said co-author James Tour, ...

What do Thomas Edison and 2010 Nobel Prize in physics winners Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim have in common? According ...

A team of scientists has replicated one of Thomas Edison's early experiments from his quest to make the lightbulb, but with ...

What if the real test of innovation isn’t how futuristic it sounds, but how quickly it improves life for real people? That’s ...