When you hear the word “invention,” what comes to mind? The lightbulb? Telephone? Maybe the airplane? These were groundbreaking inventions that fundamentally changed the way we live and communicate ...

In today’s digital world, mobile applications have become the glue that connects people with both information and just about every kind of service. In many ways, they are at the core of business ...

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The Lemelson-MIT Program, which runs a prestigious prize contest for inventors and bankrolls science and technology education initiatives, has hired a new top administrator. Stephanie Couch will take ...

Drag and drop your way to Android programming. MIT App Inventor, re-released as a beta service (as of March 5, 2012) by the MIT Center for Mobile Learning after taking over the project from Google, is ...

You’ve likely heard of the “vomit comet” — an rather graphic nickname for the aircraft used to provide short bursts of near-weightlessness by flying along a parabolic trajectory. They’re used to train ...

URBANA – University of Illinois graduate student Scott Daigle has won the $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Illinois Student Prize, given annually to an outstanding student inventor on campus. Daigle, a graduate ...