Millions of students nationwide use text-supplemented audiobooks, learning tools that are thought to help those who struggle ...

A cutting-edge educational tool called Tinkerbot is revolutionizing the way young students learn to code in a world where screens are taking over. Tinkerbot is a screenless coding bot that was created ...

Scratch 3.0 is the next-generation visual programming language designed to make coding accessible, creative, and collaborative. Developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab, ...

Bioinformatics demands professionals skilled in both computing and the biological sciences, yet introducing these interdisciplinary concepts at earlier educational stages remains challenging. Here, we ...

MIT researchers have built a 3D-printing platform that can fabricate fully functional electric machines in a single process, potentially allowing factories to produce replacement motors on-site within ...

Guitar building is often considered the pinnacle of woodworking — it’s an impressive feat. But the lessons these high school students learn in this unique class reach far beyond the woodshop. Tucked ...

When a .sb3 file is opened using standard macOS mechanisms (e.g. Finder double-click, drag & drop, or open from Terminal), Scratch Desktop should open and load the specified project, in the same way ...

Managing risk as we reach for the stars. I was not at the launch site with my former NASA colleagues on January 28, 1986, when the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after takeoff. Less than ...

Two young creators built a project with nothing but sketches, curiosity and purpose. Their journey revealed core lessons every founder can apply today. I watched two young entrepreneurs turn their ...

Amelia F. Barnum ’28, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a Social Studies concentrator in Winthrop House. Isabel C. Hogben ’29, a Crimson Editorial comper, lives in Greenough Hall. When it comes to Women ...

This is an abridged transcript of an interview from Rapid Response, hosted by former Fast Company editor-in-chief Robert Safian and recorded live at the 2025 Masters of Scale Summit in San Francisco.