Today is the 170th anniversary of the birth of one the world's most famous inventors, Thomas Edison. Edison came up with lots of great inventions and here he stumbles upon an important development ...

Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, on February 11, 1847. Edison’s father, Samuel, was a shingle maker and land speculator, while his mother, Nancy, kept house and taught young Edison at home.

All alone, they encounter a fourteen-year-old runaway, Tom the Truant, who lives in a centennial oak tree. Tom strikes a deal with them: he will bring them back to their parents, safe and sound ...

Around the same time across the Atlantic, Thomas Edison was busy working on incandescent light bulbs. Incandescent light bulbs work by running current through a material, called the filament ...

It’s a great Tom Cruise movie ... “Sing Street” is the definition of a feel-good movie. The 2016 film takes place in 1985 Dublin and follows a young boy yearning for more who decides ...

Tom Young is an actor, producer and director, known for The Protector (1998), The Dancer (2011), A Tangled Web (2015), Human Wreckage (2014) and Crazy Cat Lady (2021) ...

Throughout Jason Reitman’s new movie “Saturday Night,” a young ... “Did anyone ask Thomas Edison what the lightbulb was before he harnessed electricity?” he says in another, to dubious ...

A version of this article originally appeared on Most’s blog in 2015. Edison plays an important role in “The Race Underground.” He’s a brief mentor to a key character, Frank Julian ...

Mati Diop examines the fate of 26 treasures — sometimes from their point of view — looted from Benin in 1892. By Alissa Wilkinson This film, based on Robert Harris’s 2016 thriller of the ...

The North East STEM Foundation (NESF) has raised more than £40,000 at its annual fundraising dinner to support young people across the region in accessing education in science, technology, engineering ...

On Oct. 21, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI canonized Kateri Tekakwitha as the first Native American to become a saint.