(Abstract composition of a woman surrounded by dreamy colorful clouds depicting the subject of sleep and imagination. Credit: agsandrew / Shutterstock.) Dreams have famously led to some pretty ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. Trees, you’ve got to love them. We seem to talk about trees ...

A few blobs of lab-grown brain tissue have demonstrated a striking proof of concept: living neural circuits can be nudged toward solving a classic control problem through carefully structured feedback ...

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 ...

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.

Bradley Gartner is a senior at Miami University majoring in Robotics Engineering. He completed an internship this summer with NASA at the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

Throughout history's evolutionary arc, nature has solved many of the elemental problems modern engineers face. Biomimetics is a branch of science devoted to seeking out and emulating such natural ...

We've all heard the best approach to solve a problem is to "sleep on it." It turns out there may be more truth to this adage than previously thought. While stories abound of eureka moments surfacing ...