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Finally, after four years of testing and developing, LEGO is selling braille bricks that use the bumps on their iconic bricks to teach the...

There may be a thousand ways to say, ‘Happy Birthday!’ but the sweetest of all may very well be a special chocolate message that...

March is Reading Month, and this inspiring blog post was submitted to GNN by one of our own readers. If you have an interesting...

What started as a kind gesture between two friends is now being rolled out as a global pilot program that will allow thousands of...

Once the prototypes are fully developed, the LEGO Foundation says that they will also be giving the kits away to various institutions for blindness.

Just because these inmates are behind bars doesn't mean that they can't make a positive difference in the world, or do something so meaningful...

This fifth grader may be blind, but he loves playing video games. Because of Hibiki's visual impairment, he can only play certain games that utilize sound as...

Maycie Vorreiter may be the first ever lucky high school senior to receive an honorary yearbook published in braille.

Did you know only 10% of blind people under the age of 18 could read braille? Well neither did these kids, which is why they made this one-of-a-kind app.

207 years ago today, the man who devised a system for reading and writing for the blind, was born. Now, Louis Braille’s system of dots has been...

At just 12 years old, a San Jose, California middle-schooler received funding last month from Intel Capital, the company's venture capital arm, for his prototype low-cost...

A California seventh grader looking for a science project decided to tackle the issue of braille printers being too expensive for families with blind...

Knowing that empowerment comes with the ability to read, journalist Swagat Thorat launched India's only newspaper for the blind. Now, thanks to Thorat -- who is...

From a Tampa performing arts conservatory comes the story of a blind jazz saxophonist who uses his disability as a teaching tool. Like Obi-Wan...

On this day 375 years ago, perhaps the greatest physicist the world has known, Isaac Newton, was born. Widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time, he invented his own calculus when he was 26 years old. An English mathematician, astronomer, and theologian, his book Principia, “Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy”, formulated our understanding of the mechanics of motion and gravity, which dominated scientists’ view of the physical universe for the next three centuries. This farmer’s son also built the first practical reflecting telescope, and made pathbreaking observations in optics, figuring out that white light is really made of multiple colors. WATCH a cool video... (1543)

A ten-year-old who lost his beloved ‘Lego man’ has been reunited with the figure, after creating a 'missing person' poster for it. Jack Steel was...

Originally written by Liz Kimbrough. Reprinted from Mongabay on a CC 4.0. License.  Up in Tanzania’s Ukaguru Mountains, researchers have found a new-to-science frog species...

Always keeping an eye on its more mature fans, LEGO is preparing to release a set of Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh's great work, Starry...

Weddings are by their nature, inherently touching, but for one recent bride and groom, the ceremony was not only touching but tactile as well. When...

A loving son surprised his mom on her 64th birthday by getting the entire carriage on the London underground to join him in singing...