You may have heard in school, "The harder the study, the better the pay!" This is largely true in the world of engineering.
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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 ...
The 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize for Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to three researchers who have shown how technological and scientific innovation, coupled to market ...
Throughout any given year, the National Academies convene hundreds of conferences, workshops, symposia, forums, roundtables, and other gatherings that attract the finest minds in academia and the ...
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 ...
Hovering blue flames that flicker over bogs and marshes have inspired ghostly folktales for centuries. Known as “will-o’-the-wisp,” “jack-o’-lantern,” “corpse candle” and “ignis fatuus” (“foolish fire ...
Here’s how it works. According to a new study, naked mole rat societies are more complex than previously thought, with garbage workers and toilet cleaners. (Image credit: xiao zhou via Getty Images) ...
In a study published in the International Journal of Paleopathology, Dr. Victoria Romano and her colleagues analyzed the bones of 189 hunter-gatherers who lived during the Late Holocene (~4000 to 250 ...
Pipeline monitoring frequently encounters missing data, leading to incomplete evaluation and hindering a comprehensive assessment of the pipeline’s structural health. To address this issue, this study ...
Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...
Issues with the ship's hull, deck beams, and more show the ship was no match for Antarctic sea ice. By Laura Baisas Published Oct 6, 2025 6:00 AM EDT Image: Photo by Frank Hurley/Scott Polar Research ...