ATLANTA — Engineer and entrepreneur Dr. Lonnie Johnson created the billion-dollar toy that became a staple of childhood summers—but that success was only the beginning. From growing up in the ...

We’re interrupting your regularly scheduled programming on gentrification to bring you this Black History Month profile on Lewis H. Latimer, the African-American renaissance man who in the late 19th ...

Minecraft remains one of the best games of all time over a decade on from its release, but spending such a long time in one game could lead to you running out of ideas. We've been there: you've ...

Dedicated at the MIT Museum on August 13, 2015, and installed at the former Polaroid Corporation Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Edwin H. Land (1909–1991) was the innovative inventor ...

Abstract: This study presents an advanced control scheme capable of significantly increasing power production from wave energy conversion (WEC) systems. This control scheme uses a reactive power ...

Abstract: We apply nonsmooth multibody dynamics to describe the motion of a microrobot which is driven by the wireless resonant magnetic microactuator. We first analyze the robot using a simplified ...

In the Big Data era, data is not only becoming bigger and bigger; it is also becoming more and more complex. This translates into a spectacular increase of the dimensionality of the data. For example, ...

Born on February 19, 1866, in Greene County, Alabama, Mary Elizabeth Anderson grew up during the era of Reconstruction. She eventually gained prominence not only as an inventor but also as a real ...

Dr. Patricia Bath hit several milestones in her medical career. The ophthalmologist was the first Black female physician to receive a medical patent and was the first Black woman to finish a residency ...