Control systems keep your house warm and your car’s speed constant, but they could also help address societal problems.

LINCOLN — Abby Miller, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln alumna, found her passion and purpose in bringing three things together — good people, good drinks and the good life. Miller, who grew ...

A documentary highlights the human ingenuity behind the recent renovation of the New York airport.

The most complex engineering of human cell lines ever has been achieved by scientists, revealing that our genomes are more ...

By Alida Becker Bookshop, a site that lets independent, bricks-and-mortar bookshops sell their books online, is launching an app that will allow the sales of e-books, too. In “The Killing Fields ...

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It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball. As spooky season approaches, the master of ...

The latest book in the phenomenally popular romance-fantasy Empyrean Series finds Violet Sorrengail leaving Basgiath War College, where she’s been studying to be a dragon rider, and venturing ...

“Shattered” recounts the experience and its aftermath. In his new book “Everything Must Go,” Dorian Lynskey recounts two millennia of apocalyptic predictions. Amazingly, it’s not depressin ...

Tissue engineering is a set of methods that can replace or repair damaged or diseased tissues with natural, synthetic, or semisynthetic tissue mimics. These mimics can either be fully functional ...

Whether we realise it not, construction and engineering as an industry permeates our everyday lives. Even as children, ...