LEGO can be an essential tool in mechanical engineering as it is a form of what the field calls low-fidelity prototyping.

MIT engineers have just introduced an element of fun into microfluidics. The field of microfluidics involves minute devices that precisely manipulate fluids at submillimeter scales. Such devices ...

Contreras, who was born in Mexico and lived in Houston for a few years, and Blandino, who is a Dominicana originally from the Bronx, met on Instagram where they both admired each other’s work as LEGO ...

Amie Dansby, a tech trailblazer who has gained a following on TV and social media and advocates for girls in STEM education, has an interactive Lego wall inside her home. Juan Figueroa / Staff ...

Chaotic, but a whole lot of fun, were the words Courtney Santor used to describe the first day of the summer Lego challenge at the Rutland Free Library. More than two dozen children packed into the ...

For Yuksel Temiz, photographing extremely tiny subjects is just part of his job as a microelectronics engineer at IBM’s Zurich Research Laboratory. Temiz works on minuscule devices that use ...

As a child, I believed that every LEGO set I completed brought me one step closer to being an engineer. And as it turns out, that’s not totally outlandish, as Renault proved during the development of ...

It’s amazing what people can do with a lot of creativity and, presumably, an equally ample amount of time. Engineer Becky Mueller of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (you know, the ...

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