Perhaps not since the invention of the wheel has another innovation — the pairing of two wheels — had such an impact on personal transportation, recreation and fun. Here is a short history of the long ...

The humble bicycle has won a UK national survey of people's favourite inventions. Listeners to BBC Radio 4's You and Yours programme were invited to vote in an online poll looking at the most ...

200 years ago, Mount Tambora exploded and changed the world. The cloud of ash and sulfur dioxide caused the Year Without Summer in 1816, a year so cold that crops failed around the world, causing ...

A bicycle with wings and a Land Rover that turns itself into a hovercraft are just a couple of British inventions that - perhaps not surprisingly - failed to take off. An archive of weird and wacky ...

SFU's Bionic Energy Harvester was ranked No. 33 in Time Magazine's top 50 inventions of 2008. ((CBC)) Montreal's high-tech public bike system and a Canadian-made knee brace that harnesses enough ...