Serendipity led Northwestern Engineering’s Marco Nie into transportation research. Purpose, however, has fueled his ongoing commitment to the deeply interdisciplinary field, which holds far-reaching ...

Hype Turns into Opportunity as Systems Biology Begins to Bear Fruit Biologys status as the engine of drug discovery is hardly ever questioned today, but it was not always so. For the first century of ...

Boone has spent his career unraveling the forces that shape urban environments and their impact on both people and the planet. His lifelong passion for exploring patterns—whether in the night sky or ...

Humans are somewhat limited in the vast maze of workplace interactions. We don't possess computational brains, can't be omnipresent, and, while we think in patterns, tracking them in real-time is a ...

In the world of embedded systems, the language debate is alive and well. For years, C has dominated this space, its minimalistic design and low-level control giving embedded engineers the tools to ...

A recent episode of Steve Bartlett’s podcast, "The Diary of a CEO," sparked fierce debate across social media. The guest was Emma Grede, CEO of Good American and founding partner of the billion-dollar ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

As Secretary Pete Hegseth pushes to speed up the development and fielding of new weapons and systems, he should look to a powerful, yet underused tool: modular open systems approach. The law already ...

A new study proposes a framework featuring a more holistic picture of the cybersecurity landscape, along with a model that explicitly represents multiple dimensions of the potential impacts of ...

Water is at the heart of agriculture. Every stage of the food-growing process depends on having reliable access to water. However, water levels are declining in many rivers and aquifers that function ...