In 2024, the rapid development of artificial intelligence and its energy-gobbling data centers, the evolving electrification of transportation, increased use of heat pumps, and expansions in manufacturing drove global electricity demand higher. By 2030, that demand is expect...

After the COVID-19 pandemic drove those who could work from home to do so, many employees and companies determined how to make working from home, or WFH, work. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reports annual average labor productivity rose 5.4% in 2020, then fell to 2.0%...

Women have steadily increased their representation in STEM and among leadership ranks across the corporate world in the past few decades, giving the impression that gender equity has been achieved. But experts — and the data — say otherwise. ...

Study after study has found that diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in higher education and in the corporate world build a workforce better suited to solving global problems. Yet DEI programs — also referred to as DEIB programs, with the B standing for belonging — are...

When STEM and the arts collide, creative disruption can change everything. Film is a prime example — constantly reinventing itself with new technology and using it to tell human stories. Though the film industry has largely been male dominated (except for a brief period in t...

The number one killer of women, worldwide, is heart disease — a “silent epidemic” at a time when it is still often seen as primarily afflicting more men. Heart failure, in which the heart muscle loses its ability to pump blood efficiently, currently affects 2.6 million women...

Candace Parker, the Las Vegas Aces forward whose 16-year professional career includes two Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) championships, took a literal and figurative big step forward at the WNBA All-Star Game this past summer. During the game’s celebrations, ...

Although engineering failures are rare, they tend to receive outsized attention from the public, and for good reason. Engineers often hold people’s lives and quality of life in their hands. Structures such as bridges, roads, dams, tunnels, and buildings sometimes fail. Softw...

The newly widespread access to artificial intelligence (AI) such as the ChatGPT chatbot has created a watershed moment to promote responsible engineering, or, as one initiative’s leader says, to “stop the current system that churns out ‘Dr. Frankensteins.’” “In Mary Shell...

In 2012, Hurricane Sandy devastated the south shore of Staten Island, New York, an example of the more frequent and severe storms fueled by climate crisis. From that event came the inspiration for Living Breakwaters, an innovative coastal green infrastructure project, first ...

“Whereof what’s past is prologue,” the treacherous Antonio declares in Act 2, Scene 1 of Shakespeare’s play The Tempest, “what to come, in yours and my discharge.” Uttered with fatalism and murderous intent when the play was first published in 1611, in more recent decades th...

Social science research on the state of women in engineering and STEM continued unabated in 2022. This year, we identified more than 200 publications and conference papers on a wide range of topics pertaining to diversity in STEM. We review here the most important, substanti...