Engineering

Inspired by chemistry observed on the surface of Venus, researchers produced a synthetic material that could improve air quality.

How have Roman walls held up so long? Their ancient manufacturing strategy may hold the key to designing concrete that lasts for millennia.

With ever-improving efficiencies, and rising sales in multiple countries, heat pumps are only getting harder for their detractors to dismiss.

The US’s first certification of a small modular reactor design could lead to cheaper, safer nuclear power plants.

The US’s first two-story 3D-printed house is being built in Houston, Texas, from a mix of concrete and wood.

A new test flight puts the world’s largest plane one step closer to helping the US develop — and respond to — hypersonic weapons.

A Swedish startup has joined the race to build the world’s first electric airplane to help reduce the carbon impact of flying.

Several full-scale demonstration projects with floating wind turbines are already operating in Europe and Asia. How do they stay afloat?

On Nov. 29, 2022, the Shenzhou 15 mission launched from China’s Gobi Desert carrying three taikonauts – the Chinese word for astronauts.

MIT researchers have developed a scalable fabrication technique to produce ultrathin solar cells that can be stuck onto any surface.