Modernizing New York commuter rail: through-running service between New York City, New Jersey, Long Island, Westchester, and Connecticut ~transport Article 1813 words 14 votes
Modernizing railways for high speeds: the engineering challenges in setting speed zones ~transport Article 2071 words 10 votes
Sergey Brin's airship gets US Federal Aviation Administration clearance ~transport Article 723 words 27 votes
Cheap to make, and easily scalable supercapacitor demonstrated by MIT ~enviro energy.renewable Article 1565 words, published Oct 4 2023 27 votes
Retired astronaut, fighter pilot, and engineer Chris Hadfield reviews aerospace movies and shows ~space Video 21:08, published Sep 27 2023 24 votes
Building the world's largest cruise ship 'Icon of the Seas' in Turku, Finland ~transport Video 9:17 6 votes
Tesla reinvents carmaking with quiet breakthrough ~transport Article 1314 words, published Sep 14 2023 25 votes
Why Silicon Valley is here. One radio engineer had a plan. And it worked. ~humanities.history Video 8:47 3 votes
Taliban bringing water to Afghanistan’s parched plains via massive canal ~enviro climate change Article 1392 words 32 votes
Illegal medical lab containing bioengineered mice and infectious agents including HIV and herpes discovered in Fresno, California ~health medicine Article 407 words 32 votes
How two brothers turned planespotting into YouTube gold ~hobbies Article 2586 words, published Jul 21 2023 8 votes
Camp Century - The hidden city beneath the ice ~engineering Video 51:59, published Apr 24 2023 9 votes
Interview: Jerry Tate (62), possibly the oldest watchmaking school graduate ever (SAWTA, CW21 certification) ~engineering Article 438 words, published Mar 19 2020 5 votes
The ground is deforming, and buildings aren't ready. First study to quantify effects of subsurface climate change on civil infrastructure ~engineering Article 1229 words 23 votes
NASA's "rubber room", the emergency egress bunker located below the Apollo launch pad ~space rocketry Video 8:45, published Jun 25 2023 13 votes
We made a meat-leaf to demonstration of the cutting edge of regenerative medicine, and bioengineering. And maybe as the first stop on the road to meat-robots. ~science chemistry Video 14:02, published Jun 16 2023 10 votes
What can jellyfish teach about fluid dynamics - Interview with engineering professor John Dabiri ~science biology.marine Article 8319 words, published Jun 28 2023 9 votes
Embrace complexity; tighten your feedback loops ~comp Article 6272 words, published Jun 20 2023 7 votes
The Barbegal Aqueduct included a watermill complex with water cascading through a total of sixteen wheels. It may have been "the greatest known concentration of mechanical power in the ancient world" ~humanities.history Article 823 words 13 votes
The Dingo | A low cost, open-source robot quadruped ~science Video 8:09, published Jun 3 2023 8 votes
America needs the Alpine A110 R - lightweight driving bliss ~transport Video 11:42, published May 6 2023 6 votes
Wire EDM is an insanely precise manufacturing method. But there's a trick behind these objects that appear to have no seam. ~science Video 9:37 7 votes
The world’s longest suspension bridge is history in the making. After 2,000 years of political and technical hitches, Italy says it’s finally ready to connect Sicily to the mainland. ~engineering Article 1867 words, published Apr 11 2023 8 votes
Czechia's incredible 1960s supervillain-lair hotel (and why its architect got banned by the regime) ~design architecture Video 13:39 8 votes
Green steel: Can we make steel without CO2 emissions? ~science Video 14:47, published May 30 2022 5 votes
Engineering the world’s most complex office building, in Antwerp, Belgium ~engineering Video 11:04 5 votes
Bergen is gearing up to open the world's longest purpose-built pedestrian and bicycle tunnel – 2.9km tunnel takes 30-45 minutes to walk through ~transport Link 8 votes
An overview of the substation attack in Moore County, North Carolina in December 2022 ~science Video 13:08 4 votes
The insane scale of Europe's new mega-tunnel – Denmark is building a record-breaking tunnel to Germany ~engineering Article 3000 words 3 votes
Is Helsinki city centre's new neighbourhood, Wood City, the future of building? Developers are increasingly swapping out concrete and steel in favour of wood. ~design urban planning architecture Article 1369 words, published Sep 26 2022 8 votes