You may have heard in school, "The harder the study, the better the pay!" This is largely true in the world of engineering.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

WHITEHALL TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- A road where a Lehigh County man was hit and killed last Christmas has been shut down over safety concerns. On Monday night, the Whitehall Township commissioners unanimously ...

Cooking can be a relaxing, meditative act—that is, until your eyes start to sting unbearably. Cutting an onion often leads to an involuntary stream of tears, but a new scientific discovery has ...

Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) affects over a third of the global population and is linked to serious health problems. A new study has revealed that high blood ...

On the morning of October 21, 1966, the Welsh mining village of Aberfan was struck by one of Britain’s most harrowing peacetime disasters. After days of heavy rain, a slag heap collapsed off a ...

The researchers captured "microlightning" as they bubbled methane and air through water. Screenshot via Xia, Yu et al., PNAS, 2025 For centuries, stories about will-o’-the-wisps have captured the ...

Ella Al-Shamahi, in her Sept. 23 Tuesday Opinion commentary, “What it cost me to admit evolution is real,” extended her secularizing experience of examining the data behind evolution to all religions.

A digital reconstruction of a one-million-year old skull in China called Yunxian 2 suggested that our species started to emerge half a million years earlier than previously believed, according to a ...

NASA's Carruthers Geocorona Observatory has taken flight, and will soon start a two-year mission to study Earth's mysterious "halo". Some NASA missions are designed for very specific tasks, but all of ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A cluster of space weather satellites blasted off Wednesday morning to cast fresh eyes on solar storms that can produce stunning auroras but also scramble communications and ...

Resistance training could help me sleep better. Building incentives will help me exercise more. Good friendships will help me live longer. As a wellness writer, I spend a lot of my days reporting on ...