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Explore the challenges scientists ran up against trying to study Antarctica's fastest melting glacier

Interested in designing your own assistive technology? Check out the accompanying lesson plan!

Discuss how to create cell phone storage devices that meet the needs of a whole school community

Explore our "News: Then & Now" section to learn about past inventors using the Library of Congress' primary source sets

Hear from a legendary designer about how collaboration helps us find our creativity

Protect people against extreme heat and climate change by creating solutions

Learn how one architect created a fleet of more than 100 boats, which act as schoolrooms, libraries, clinics, and playgrounds during monsoon season

In this invention lesson, students will identify a space at their school that is inaccessible to wheelchair users and invent a more accessible design

Learn about gene editing, invention and genetically modified organisms

Learn more about riverkeepers in Maryland, and their plan to ensure clean water throughout the state