NEW YORK — After nearly nine months, the NFL scandal that would not go away is finally over. Tom Brady has been cleared of the charges set against him about “Deflategate,” and his four-game suspension has been overturned.

The history of the world’s most ubiquitous writing instrument is a rocky chronicle of manufacturing and design skips, smears and blotches. The great-granddaddy of the ballpoint pen was John Loud, a Harvard-trained attorney and inventor seeking an instrument for writing on leather products. The only available technology, the fountain pen, was inadequate for the task, …read more.

A team of Rose-Hulman students has been specially chosen for the second year in a row to develop prototype parts for an international automotive competition. The goal of the Valeo Innovation Challenge is to create smarter, more intuitive cars for the future. There is a $109,000 prize for first place. More than 1,300 project proposals …read more.