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For millennia, diamonds were the hardest known material, but they only rank at #7 on the current list. Can you guess which material is #1?
The story of how the world high jump record was smashed in 1968 contains golden lessons for business and innovation.
Magnificent time-tested buildings are filled with lessons in resilience and stability — and the benefits for investment strategy can be huge.
Astro Mechanica’s “turboelectric” jet engines offer a way to transform both commercial flights and space launches.
The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) will have a light-collecting power 10 times greater than today's best telescope.
It’s 50% stronger than comparable materials used in aerospace.
What would it take to create a truly intelligent microbot, one that can operate independently?
On the morning of April 20, 1961, all conditions were "go" for an attempt at free flight. A man was on standby with a fire extinguisher. Just in case.
The $21.5-billion project could involve tunneling hundreds of feet under Lake Geneva.
You can’t farm spiders — but putting spider genes into silkworms works even better.
Time to rewrite our understanding of structural engineering.
The material is both stronger and lighter than those used to make conventional power plant turbines.
Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works engineering division has devised many jaw-dropping aircraft. Here are some of the best — and one ship.
Was it the enormous magnitude of the quake, or is the problem with the buildings?
Innovative thinking has done away with problems that long dogged the electric devices — and both scientists and environmentalists are excited about the possibilities.
An unexpected ancient manufacturing strategy may hold the key to designing concrete that lasts for millennia.
Its implications go well beyond the Earth itself, affecting even the future of space travel.
If you gave me $400 and I gave you $3.15, would you consider yourself wealthier? That's a financial analogy for the supposed fusion power "breakthrough."
In the future, driving an app across a bridge could let engineers know how safe it is.
The war in Ukraine is unlikely to trigger a catastrophic nuclear meltdown. Physics and smart engineering are the reasons why.
If your computer crashes, it might be due to a star that exploded somewhere in the Universe millions of years ago.
The synthetic cartilage was made from cellulose fibers — the stuff found in wood — mixed with a goo called polyvinyl alcohol.
Scientists turn to nature to improve a ubiquitous building material.
NASA was dangerously cavalier about the dangers of the shuttle launches.
From Amazon to the US Army, everybody wants one (or 150).
Deep learning AI has accurately created color images from night vision images.
“I thought, why not direct these high-power beams, instead of into fusion plasma, down into rock and vaporize the hole?”
For the very first time, an AR contact lens was worn on the eye of a human subject. And it has about 30 times the pixel density of an iPhone.
"The Soul of a New Machine" provides a rare level of insight into the minds and decisions of humanity's greatest thinkers.
It could make enough drinking water for a family of four.