Tech
Wind turbines taller than the Statue of Liberty are taking over U.S. fields, and the surprise is that the corn is still growing below
Austrian engineers are inflating hardened concrete with air, and the trick could make scaffolding disappear from domes, tunnels, and bridges
A 21-year-old says he made gasoline from plastic trash, and now everyone wants to know whether his backyard machine is real
Nepal is turning noodle wrappers and plastic waste into roads, but the real test is whether the asphalt survives without leaving another problem
A swarm of robot ants learned to build without a boss, and Harvard’s experiment points to machines that could work where humans cannot
Africa is trying to stop the Sahara with an 5,000-mile green wall, but the hardest enemy is not only the desert
China’s 16 MW floating wind turbine rises 270 meters from the sea, and its scale shows how fast offshore energy is moving into deep water
A balcony solar kit cut the electric bill, but the strange part is why a judge still ordered it removed
It sounded like science fiction, but scientists sent quantum data through 19 miles of regular internet cable without breaking the network
A teenager turned a backyard shed into a nuclear experiment, and the strangest part is where the radioactive material came from
Goodbye to the 1:3:3 concrete myth: an engineer reveals the formula that could decide whether a structure cracks or lasts
South Korea kept an artificial sun alive for 102 seconds, and the strange part is how close it came to beating physics
China switched on a mini nuclear reactor only 14 meters tall, and the strange part is how many homes it can power
America built a nuclear tomb under the Nevada desert, then left it empty while the waste stayed scattered across the country
An empty beer bottle becomes sand inside a solar truck, then returns as concrete without leaving the city
A material tested on the Moon is now fighting desert sand on Earth, and China found the strangest use for space technology
A bike path made from 218,000 cups has a stranger secret underneath: the road is hollow enough to hide a city’s pipes









