As anyone who has stepped on one will attest, the durability and hardiness of a LEGO brick is well-known. The plastic building blocks are made to resist all kinds of stress; it’s rare for a piece to ...

Cover image showing the LEGO beam, a simulation illustrating a localized mode (vibrations localized at the left boundary), and the measured "Butterfly" spectrum. Researchers at CU Boulder are using ...

In the summer of 2009, more than 4,000 volunteers flocked to Dorking, England, to help former Top Gear cohost James May realize his childhood dream of building a real house out of Lego bricks. Over ...

Lego artist Nathan Sawaya maintains a stock of 5 million Lego bricks in his Los Angeles studio. At a cost of six figures a year, it’s hard to understand how someone could need or use that many of the ...