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 ...

Radleys “Build a Lego Lab” competition is back and aims this year to more outlandish, clever and crazy Lego lab creations than ever before. Build a Lego lab, challenges Lego lovers and aspiring ...

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 ...

Sourcing human tissue samples for biological investigations isn’t always easy. While they are ethically obtained through organ donation or from tissue that’s removed during surgical procedures, ...

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 ...

Got some time to kill? Why not fill it by building your own Breaking Bad-style toy meth lab. The Superlab Playset by collectable toy manufacturer Citizen Brick enables you to construct an industrial ...

Keeping budgets low, timelines short, “daring to fail” and aiming to learn are just some of the key tactics of Lego Future Lab, the “rebels of the company” who aim to disrupt the brand before any ...

The toy building blocks were used to create a potentially edible structure for future cultured steaks. For their study, recently published in the journal Food Hydrocolloids, food scientists from Penn ...

The Danish company behind the ubiquitous brightly coloured building block toys released their latest product, the rebuildable Lego board games, in July. They were invented by Cephas Howard, a British ...

Just a decade ago, Lego was on the brink of bankruptcy. The company was facing mounting competition from internet and video games, Jonathan Ringen writes at Fast Company. Lego was able to turn around ...