Every country has that one invention locals swear by – brilliant, bizarre, or both – that somehow never crossed the border.

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 ...

Even if the Earth runs out of oil and gas, and a dense veil of smog plunges the world into darkness, we will still have electricity to charge smartphones and film the beginning of the end! There is at ...

Modern humans have existed for around 300,000 years, and in all the time we've been here, we've made a lot of things. In the early days, homo sapiens fashioned tools from flint and other materials, ...