A country's central bank can create money by purchasing government bonds — this is called quantitative easing.

A fuel cell converts chemical energy directly into electricity with higher efficiency than combustion engines.

Carbon fiber is 5 times stronger than steel but 5 times lighter, making it revolutionary in aerospace and automotive design.

The modern emoji originated in Japan in 1999, designed by Shigetaka Kurita for a mobile internet platform.

The GIF format is older than the World Wide Web — it was invented in 1987.

The '@' symbol was chosen for email addresses because it was the least-used character on keyboards at the time.

Your phone contains enough computing power to guide Apollo-era spacecraft.

Pianos have over 12,000 individual parts and are considered both string instruments and percussion instruments.

The world's first website, created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991, is still live at info.cern.ch.