Scientific advances tend to be slow and meticulous affairs, built from incremental steps that eventually lead to a breakthrough. Such was the case with magnetic resonance imaging, which took decades ...

In a dim German laboratory in 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen’s accidental discovery of X-rays cracked open a new era in medicine, letting humanity see inside itself for the first time. In 1895, inside a ...

X-Rays are the amazing bits of the electro-magnetic spectrum that allow us to see through many objects — including human soft tissue. But when they were first publicly demonstrated on Jan. 23, 1896 — ...

Some of the greatest scientific breakthroughs didn't happen by careful planning. They happened by accident. There's a bunch of everyday tech that was created by accident. From microwave ovens, inkjet ...