Magnetic materials are used to make MRI machines, hard drives, wireless chargers, and phone speakers. It takes a lot of expensive research and development to create new materials. “And there’s no ...

Imagine needing to solve a problem from the present but in the setting of an ancient civilization. Or space. In an eight-minute skit. With props made by children. Doing just that, students on a team ...

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Further south, the Cape Town’s Maker Faire had its debuted this year. Its founder Omar-Pierre Soubra, a Frenchman living in the US. Maker Faire Africa is independent of Maker Faire US and seeks to ...

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Four New Jersey high school juniors formed a nonprofit organization to address real-world problems through STEM education. The group has sent experiments to Senegal to teach students about basic ...

Amazon fund MIT Solve to find world-changing startups. The founders they back have a 96% survival rate. Here's how the model ...

Silicon Valley has created the impression of the archetypal technology company as founded by smart, young guns in a garage who tinker around to find a product that can make them, and their investors, ...