The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Science Applications International Corporation SAIC has been awarded a $444 million contract to support the U.S. Space Force's Digital Transformation, Acquisition, Modernization and Modification ...

While many of the experiments it will conduct in the coming months are classified, the Space Force has identified space-based laser communications and quantum sensing as two of its focus areas.

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 ...

A test pilot from Edwards Air Force base has been selected for a yearlong NASA Mars mission simulation to study long-term ...

First lady Melania Trump emphasized the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence on Thursday, urging the administration to educate the next generation of students on how to use the technology. “We ...

Magnetism is a natural force, one that works at a distance. Magnets get their force from magnetic fields created by the atoms within the metal. Magnets are useful for things like turbines we use to ...

Now, as a student in Northwestern Engineering's Master of Science in Robotics (MSR) program, Patil developed an open-source software package that filled what he saw as a gap in the robotics community.

Gravity is the force of action between two objects. It’s called a natural force because it acts at a distance rather than needing to be in contact. Gravity is the force that holds us down on Earth and ...