For decades, China’s government has reshaped the country with dramatic displays of state power, from vast infrastructure projects that have remade entire provinces to nationwide campaigns that attempt ...

Burcu Akinci, head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), has been appointed as the next dean of the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, effective Jan. 1, ...

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A new computational framework developed by a team with Professor Chris Wolverton maps atomic ordering to unlock ...

Now, research from Northwestern Engineering’s Vadim Backman reveals a second “language” of life: the “geometric code” embedded in the genome’s physical shape. Like a blueprint for making living ...

AI bots are everywhere now, filling everything from online stores to social media. “Competition-induced misaligned behaviors emerge even when models are explicitly instructed to remain truthful and ...

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The National Science Foundation has slashed funding available for research into STEM instruction in K-12 schools. The move—which amounts to a roughly 50% cut for such research, experts calculate —also ...

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Computer Science and Engineering Ph.D. student Nayan Bhatia demonstrates Pulse-Fi, technology that uses WiFi signals to measure a person's heart rate. Heart rate is one of the most basic and important ...