16A lot of engineers, scientists, builders, makers, and hackers got their start as children with LEGO. Putting those bricks together, whether following the instructions or not, really brings out the ...

A paper in Wednesday’s issue of the journal Lab on a Chip, explains how the team at MIT used what they refer to as “interlocking injection-molded blocks” — again, seriously, it’s bricks — to build a ...

The Lego brick might be the most popular toy in the world. It’s hard to imagine that when the Lego Group, founded by Ole Kirk Kristiansen, first started making toys in 1932, there were no plastic ...

As any good hacker (or scientist) knows, sometimes you find the tools you need in unexpected places. For one group of MIT scientists, that place is a box of Lego. Graduate student [Crystal Owens] was ...

Every September, largely unbeknownst to the rest of the company, a group of around 50 Lego employees descends upon Spain’s Mediterranean coast, armed with sunblock, huge bins of Lego bricks, and a ...

Editor’s note: This story is part of ‘Meet a UChicagoan,’ a regular series focusing on the people who make UChicago a distinct intellectual community. Read about the others here. In Dave Kaleta’s home ...

BioTechniques Digital Editor, Tristan Free talks to Cassandra Quave of Emory University (GA, USA) about her research analyzing botanical natural products to determine their pharmacological potential.

ANDREW CAROL’S computers can calculate the solutions to mathematical equations and tell you the exact time and date of a lunar eclipse several hundred years into the future. Yet these machines compute ...