ON SEPTEMBER 28, 1916, five years after the U.S. Supreme Court famously ordered the breakup of Standard Oil, founder John D. Rockefeller Sr. became the world’s first billionaire. The Sherman Antitrust ...

“USA250: The Story of the World’s Greatest Economy” is a yearlong WSJ series examining America’s first 250 years. Read more about it from Editor in Chief Emma Tucker. The votes are in. For the past ...

The course of American history has been changed by countless inventions, from the tiny things that made everyday life different to huge landmark projects that made history. To compile a list of 100 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. - Wikimedia Commons // Alf van Beem The Roaring Twenties didn't just roar with jazz, flappers, and speakeasies—it hummed with the ...

Gerald C. Imazue, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, has received a U.S. patent for a system designed to deliver personalized speech therapy outside ...

This Women’s History Month, we want to celebrate all the Black women who have helped to shape lives for the better with their innovative minds and tenacity in their respective fields. From the ...

In today’s rapidly changing world, proficiency in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) matters more than ever. Yet, as important as STEM may be, business decision-makers, government ...

The invention of the modern self. How did the idea of the individual come into being? In that classic of Western cinema, Monty Python’s Life of Brian, the title character addresses a crowd in ...

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In 1945, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke proposed something ridiculous: satellites orbiting Earth at exactly the right altitude to stay fixed above one spot, beaming radio signals across ...