Grappling with all the uncertainty, the epidemiologist’s role during the pandemic proved confusingly complex. A more pragmatic, problem-solving mindset might help in making good decisions. The last 20 ...

Bucknell University Professor Elif Miskioǧlu, chemical engineering, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award — the agency's most prestigious and ...

Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) and the University of Oxford have successfully demonstrated how problem-solving techniques used in ...

Guru Madhavan is the Norman R. Augustine Senior Scholar and senior director of programs at the National Academy of Engineering. His new book is Wicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better World (W.W.

If you’re in manufacturing, it may feel like disruption is happening faster than you can react to it. Skills shortages and supply chain issues are threatening production targets and profitability. New ...

We've seen dream engineering in blockbuster movies like Christopher Nolan's Inception, and a new study shows that the science-fiction-style idea may be much closer to science fact than we realized. A ...