Video games are often discussed as entertainment, but they can also serve as genuine scientific tools and Minecraft never ceases to prove it. Recently, a YouTuber stunned his followers and the wider ...

Friday marked the beginning of a whole new world at Liberty Science Center. The world-traveling “Minecraft: The Exhibition” is making its premiere at the Jersey City facility and runs through Sept. 5.

Arguably one of the most iconic movie scenes in science fiction cinematic history, was the Death Star run in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. It was here that Luke Skywalker was able to "let go of ...

REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 15, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp. and Code.org on Tuesday unveiled the Minecraft Hour of Code Designer, a coding tutorial for students and educators created for Hour of ...

Markus “Notch” Persson, the founder of Minecraft (who recently took a $2 billion from Microsoft and moved on) wrote in 2012 that he intended Minecraft to be a “genderless” game. He said the naming of ...

US Dept. of Education approves funding to teach coding and computer science to middle schoolers using Minecraft Education, benefiting underrepresented children. Minecraft Education's game-based ...

Melissa Wrenchey has spent over 10 years in the classroom as an educator. She is currently a computer science and engineering teacher at Tesla STEM High School in Redmond, Wash., as well as teacher ...