The microbe Pyrodictium abyssi is an archaeon—a member of what's known as the third domain of life—and an extremophile. It ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An "extreme" engineering centre will be built to help develop deep sea technology. The £7 million Neptune National Centre will be created on the River Tyne in Newcastle. The River Tyne in Newcastle, ...

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 ...