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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 ...

Discover ten innovative machines and futuristic vehicles built to master the toughest environments and tasks. From the ...

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 ...

In this series, mental_floss will examine the engineering problems associated with humanity’s most extreme endeavors, from mining asteroids to colonizing the ocean, and explain how engineers plan to ...

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 ...

Architect Danny Forster travels around the world to "deconstruct" such ultimate construction projects as warships, public works structures, cruise liners and extreme thrill rides. Forster takes ...