A tunnel boring machine gets famous exactly twice in its life. Once when it goes into the ground with a naming ceremony and a ...

The Rivian R2 is surprisingly fast and that may have finally pushed it past the Tesla Model Y in the ongoing debate.

The Jones Act is one of those laws plenty of Americans have never read and still hold firm opinions about. Passed in 1920, it says that cargo moving between ...

The Navy just proved you don't need a warship to win a drug bust — you need patience, and a 33-foot robot sailboat has more of it than any crew ever will. A drone that jogs at 5 knots and runs 100 ...

The solar panel industry sells you a 25-year performance warranty as if it's a lifespan guarantee, but a 44-year-old Swiss rooftop is about to expose exactly how much that promise is worth — and the ...

Saffron is expensive for a boring reason. Every thread is a dried stigma pulled out of a crocus flower by hand, three threads per bloom, and the counting has ...

Loch Ness has been quietly acting as a giant battery since the 1970s, moving 160 tonnes of water uphill every second, and almost no one has noticed — but three new schemes want to scale that up ...

The Sunnyside solar project is one of the most structurally ambitious urban energy bets in the country, and almost nobody outside Houston knows it exists. Every single panel on this 52-megawatt array ...

Inouye Solar Telescope just photographed something on the sun's surface that no instrument in human history has ever captured — and the machine that made it possible is arguably more astonishing than ...

The ghost of the Superconducting Super Collider is haunting Europe's boldest physics bet right now, because CERN just approved a successor to the LHC that's even bigger than the machine Texas started ...

One of only three four-rotor Mazda 767B prototypes ever built went up in flames at Laguna Seca during Monterey Car Week, and the footage of men rushing in with extinguishers is as painful to watch as ...