Video by Sarah Joseph and Jon Betz, Smithsonian Digital Studio; Text by Megan Gambino Benjamin Franklin invented swim flippers when he was 12 years old. Frank Epperson, age 11, conceived of the ...

Evan Williams is an automotive journalist and mechanical engineering technologist with more than a decade of experience in the industry. He has written for the Toronto Star and AutoTrader Canada and ...

It isn’t hard to think that Jeff Bezos left his role as Amazon.com’s CEO to enjoy a slower life filled with yachting and celebrity parties. But he would most certainly object to that characterization.

A novel scientific discovery can catapult a researcher from the bench to being an entrepreneur. Here, Greta Faccio shares considerations for next steps in commercialising an invention Scientists deal ...

Holy moly. If the all-new 2026 Lexus ES is a good indicator of what’s to come from the luxury brand, you might need to forget all you know about Lexus. This marks the most significant stylistic ...

The next-generation Lexus ES arrives as an EV and a hybrid. The U.S.-market EV targets 300 miles of EPA-rated range. Like Toyota's other new electric cars, it also will come from the factory with a ...

The 2026 Lexus ES made its formal debut at this year’s Shanghai International Automobile Industry Exhibition. The luxury sedan will offer a 2.5-liter hybrid powertrain or two battery-electric ...

Whenever we’ve had a Lexus ES in our test vehicle fleet, it’s usually signed out by employees who plan to drive long distances. That’s not surprising, because the ES has historically been one of the ...

The 2026 Lexus ES wears sharp bodywork and comes as a hybrid and a fully electric sedan. The ES350h hybrid makes 244 horsepower and comes with either front-wheel drive or all-wheel drive. There are ...

Franco has been an automotive creator since 2016 (Galimoto Media, NamWheels, Media24) and has been writing for CarBuzz since April 2025. He completed his MPhil in Urban Planning in 2015 and his Post ...

In debuting alongside the Lexus LS in 1989, the ES became one of the first cars to be graced with a Lexus badge and so far, has evolved through seven generations to become a constant fixture in the ...

For the seventh-generation ES luxury midsize sedan’s possibly final model year, Lexus adds a new top V-6 gas-only grade called the Black Line Special Edition. If the trim sounds familiar, it might be ...