The effect could be positive for Australia's growth and allow new communities to flourish along the route.

Bins designed to suck up debris floating on the sea are in the final stages of testing, shame they won’t make it to Rio in time to clean up dirty waters at the Olympics. By Alice Klein.

Every year, local communities on either side of the Apurimac River Canyon use traditional Inka engineering techniques to rebuild the Q'eswachaka Bridge. The old bridge is taken down and the new bridge is built in only three days. The bridge has been rebuilt in this same location continually since the time of the Inka.

An aircraft powered by solar energy landed in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates early Tuesday, after flying around the world without the use of fossil fuels.

Volkswagen developed six generations of cheating software to beat emissions tests—and even calculated the cost of getting caught was still worth it, according to a new lawsuit by New York and Massachusetts. By Clive Irving.

VIDEO: Questioning QWERTY.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is on a mission explore to near-Earth asteroid Bennu, a carbon-rich body that may contain clues to the origins of life. In this video, OVIRS instrument scientists Dennis Reuter and Amy Simon discuss the challenges and rewards of sending a spectrometer into deep space.

It's an apex predator built down to hunt down and break land speed records.

Right off the bat, Michael Burtov said he and his team at technology startup GeoOrbital did not re-invent the wheel. But, in a sense, they did. By Ben Gruber.

You probably know how they taste, but now how they're made.

A container ship with a hemispherical-shaped bow, which can significantly reduce wind drag, is under construction at Japanese shipbuilder Kyokuyo Shipyard, at its facility about 7km northeast of the Kanmon Straits in Yamaguchi Prefecture [Japan]. By Shinobu Takeda.

AV-8B Harrier jet with no front gear landing on the USS Bataan. This is one creative way to land this plane.

The Concorde gave us supersonic transport. But why did this supersonic plane fail? The answer is complicated — Vox's Phil Edwards investigated.

The ultimate in precision engineering.

"Really!? Russians light up their rockets with a giant match?" This was a question from one of my Twitter followers who'd seen a photo of a culprit in the aborted launch attempt of a Russian Soyuz rocket Saturday, when mission control called the abort just moments before takeoff because of an ignition system problem. Indeed, even some seasoned space geeks were surprised to learn that contraptions fashioned out of birch trees into the shape of a broomstick are placed into the combustion chambers of every Soyuz rocket—including those carrying cosmonauts and astronauts.

The Promobot IR77 has been fitted with artificial intelligence meaning that it learns from its experiences and surroundings and can remember everybody it meets

Con Ed wants to replace human inspections of its steam boilers with carbon fiber-armored drones.