A tunnel boring machine gets famous exactly twice in its life. Once when it goes into the ground with a naming ceremony and a ...
Waymo's CEO is not impressed with Tesla's camera-only system for autonomous driving. He has since come out with a study.
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 ...
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 ...
BMW just proved it can beam advertisements directly onto your dashboard in 70+ countries simultaneously, and the Spider-Man ...
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 ...
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 ...
Wheat and grass-clover between the rows showed no yield decline at all. "The crops don't seem to mind the presence of solar ...
A dam wall is not supposed to do anything except hold back water and get checked for cracks every few years. The Muttsee dam ...
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 ...