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

The #LegoBuildAmazing campaign asked children to build something that can fly out of Lego bricks, the result being a flying rainbow cloud that dropped candy. Lego then took the concept to the students ...

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 ...

Imagine: Capturing the UPC code of a food and receiving a text back if the food product is safe to eat based on your personal food allergies. A new service aims to provide a database to do just that.

In 1958, Leonard Read penned the famous economic essay I, Pencil. It chronicles, from the perspective of the yellow writing tool, the boggling complexity of supply chains and market forces that allows ...

When somebody thinks of genius engineering and cars, they probably think of something like a Tesla Cybertruck. (At least when it comes to anything but its windows.) But anybody can build an incredible ...

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 ...

Here is a hacker showing off their engineering chops. This video shows successive design iterations for a LEGO vehicle which can cross increasingly large gaps. At the time of writing this video from ...