“Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door,” so goes the saying, but VHS beat Betamax and the world hasn’t been the same since. In any case, you might not get rich building ...

Laura, a girlfriend, felt disheartened about the catch a mouse in one of those glue traps. She heard the small squeaks of her trapped prey then had to watch him struggle in the adhesive. Felt so ...

When most silk-spinning spiders hunt, they build a web and wait for prey to blunder into it. But a newly discovered species from Australia instead uses its silk to craft a spring-loaded, cone-shaped ...

“Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door” is a phrase attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson. Problem? Nobody’s really improved the spring-loaded mousetrap first patented by ...