Engineering

A large container ship “totally removed” a critical pier from Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge

Bringing people together virtually doesn’t seem to boost disruptive research

In 1910 an Anglo-Irish woman named Lilian Bland built a plane with little to no encouragement from her family or aviation enthusiasts. Shortly after the plane took off, she quit flying and moved on to her next challenge

Sallie Pero Mead made major discoveries about how electromagnetic waves propagate that allowed objects to be detected at a distance

A team of scientists has figured out how to convert planet-warming carbon dioxide into a harmless powdery fuel that could be converted into clean electricity

Today’s Silicon Valley billionaires grew up reading classic American science fiction. Now they’re trying to make it come true, embodying a dangerous political outlook

For the first time, researchers have used sound waves to 3-D print an object from a distance—even with a wall in the way

Light can be reflected not only in space but also in time—and researchers exploring such “time reflections” are finding a wealth of delightfully odd and useful effects

Amid restrictions on optical satellite images, researchers have developed a radar technique to gauge building damage in Gaza

Glasses that provide subtitles for conversations could be a boon to people with hearing loss

Next-generation 6G technology could “enable applications that we may not even imagine today”

Geoengineering is happening, AI wants to talk with animals, and why we aren’t going to live in space