Our favorite links this month tell stories of outside-the-box thinkers whose unique outlooks on complex problems led to life-changing solutions. Read More

It turns out it was a visionary woman – Ada Lovelace – who was one of the first trailblazers to challenge previously held conceptions about computers’ limitations. Read More

Visit the Intellectual Ventures Lab and you’ll find one of IV’s favorite inventions, the Babbage Machine. Consisting of 8,000 parts, weighing five tons and measuring 11 feet long, this particular invention is hard to miss. But its size isn’t the reason it has a home in the IV Lab foyer. Read More

Last year, Behind the Breakthrough profiled Manan Shukla, an associate commercialization lead at Global Good. Manan has traveled extensively in some of the most impoverished regions in the world, working with farmers to understand the problems they’re facing and what technologies could help. Read More

This month we’ve celebrated and showcased STEM in our communities, and appreciated outstanding displays of tenacity and teamwork – traits inventors often share – from Olympic athletes in Rio. Read More