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From renowned designer Vera Wang to Emmy-nominated actress Laverne Cox, these success stories prove you don't have to be in your 20s make a difference.

Here in the 21st century, we like to pride ourselves on our innovation. Yet authors writing a century ago had many of the same problems we have today, and

Will a new law lead to local folks arming themselves for self-defense?

The shocking ways wild animals use electricity From the electric eel to the echidna, many animals rely on electric currents to communicate, find prey, and defend themselves. Electric eels (which are not true eels) can generate more than 800 volts to stun prey.Photograph by George Grall / NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION ByLavanya Sunkara Email An invisible force of nature, electricity is all around us. Humans generate weak electrical fields whenever we move our muscles, for instance. But some impressive animals have taken this power a step further, evolving the ability to communicate, defend themselv...

11:50am EDT| Rick and Tom Smith introduced the world to the Taser in the 1990s. Now the siblings compete in a $7 billion market for non-lethal weapons, at a time of intense scrutiny of police violence. In December, police in Fruitland, Maryland, responded to a report of a man in distress. They’d had to deal with him before: His seizures caused him to become violent with his family. Rather than reaching for a Taser or using physical force, they turned to a device called Bola Wrap. When the officer fired, a Kevlar rope exploded from his hand like a web from Spider-Man's wrist and wrapped itse...