COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Lego’s sales soared 25 percent last year thanks in part to its new series of building blocks designed for girls. The privately owned company said Thursday that on revenue of 23.4 ...

Throughout the Tri-State, young students are acquiring technical skills, thinking about real-world problems and competing on teams — all while playing with the products of an 84-year-old toy company.

Loving to draw but deathly afraid of pen ink, [Marcel] came up with a little drawing machine made out of Lego that will do it for him. It’s not a very complicated build but it does have several ...

Loving to draw but deathly afraid of pen ink, [Marcel] came up with a little drawing machine made out of Lego that will do it for him. It’s not a very complicated build but it does have several ...

The Japanese practice of drawing patterns in sand, known as “karesansui” or “dry landscape” gardening, is often associated with Zen Buddhism. These gardens are designed to embody a sense of ...

LONDON — The crowd gathered around the glass box, snapping photos while pointing and smiling. It was the Lego block section of John Lewis Stratford, the official store for the 2012 London Games; so ...

This is Legonardo, an automaton capable of drawing portraits. Obviously, it doesn’t have the complex clockwork used by automatons of old, like its Swiss counterpart made by Pierre Jacquet-Droz and ...