During my last quest for Lego-based teaching inspiration, I came across these amazing teaching kits and booklets from the School of Physics and Astronomy at the Queen Mary University of London. In ...

Chilled out: Researchers measured the thermal conductivity of Lego bricks near absolute zero, with a Lego “cryonaut” along for the ride. Credit: Credit: Josh Chawner Here at Newscripts, we’ve always ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LONDON (Reuters) - A particle physics student has used his downtime to build a Lego model of the world's most powerful particle ...

I am admittedly not the smartest guy, and as such, I really don’t like puzzles. If there’s a puzzle in a game, I’ll probably just look up how to solve it. They’re not my thing, and I gravitate more ...

What happens when your kids won’t give you a turn on the Wii? Simple. You take their LEGO bricks and their slinky and do some physics. I will keep this simple. Basically, I created a slinky holder out ...

An unlimited world of structures built from precision-engineered unit parts – it is easy to see why LEGO appeals to many physicists. But in addition to the pure enjoyment, this plastic construction ...

A model of ATLAS in Lego has just passed the magic 10,000 votes needed for the company to consider marketing it A while ago I was left speechless in awe at Sascha Mehlhase's creation of ATLAS in Lego.

Different strokes: what are the characteristics of the ideal oar? (Courtesy: Joebrunton/ CC BY-SA 3.0) What is the ideal length of an oar used in a rowing race? You might think that the answer is ...

A particle physics student has used his downtime to build a Lego model of the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Nathan Readioff's design uses existing Lego ...

I played three video games in college: Halo 3 with my friends, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter with my roommate and her dad, and Trials HD by myself. I have since opened my horizons to ...