The microbe Pyrodictium abyssi is an archaeon—a member of what's known as the third domain of life—and an extremophile. It ...

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Norway's Langeled pipeline is a massive engineering challenge with the potential for an even more massive payoff when it is successfully operating in two years time: It could supply more than 20 per ...

The Dakar is the toughest event in the world for any type of vehicle, so it's no surprise that constructors go to great lengths to ensure their cars, bikes and trucks remain competitive. Here's how.

With all the attention given to low-power design and products, it's sometimes easy to forget that there's another world out there with power levels that are tens of orders of magnitude greater—and ...

KQED San Francisco’s CE Larry Wood and I were chatting about engineering experiences that rarely see the light of day. Larry knows many engineers who have been through much tougher experiences than he ...