No one's managed to come out the other side, at least not yet.

The U.S. Air Force’s mysterious X-37B space plane has now spent 600 days in Earth orbit on the vessel’s latest mission and is nearing a program record for longest time spent in space. By Leonard David.

A team of researchers at MIT has designed one of the strongest lightweight materials known, by compressing and fusing flakes of graphene, a two-dimensional form of carbon. The new material, a sponge-like configuration has a density of just 5 percent.

The red Solo Cup is an elegant piece of technology. It's easy to forget when you find them strewn across the room, half-filled with leftover beer or crushed underfoot from parties the night before. But what many take for granted as simply a cheap, disposable beverage holder is the result of careful, beautiful engineering by people such as Robert Hulseman. Many are now pouring one out for Hulseman, whose family on Thursday broke the news of his passing on Dec. 21. He was 84.

It was a project eight years in the making—well, technically nine now. One LEGO fan has built his own Star Trek Klingon Bird of Prey using about 25,000 blocks, based on a virtual blueprint he started all the way back in 2008.

Air Force One, the Space Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, the Sultan of Brunei's jet—here are some of the most lavish and advanced 747s to ever take to the skies.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) concluded in an environmental assessment that a proposed Spectra Energy gas compressor station in a residential Massachusetts neighborhood would not increase the risk of cancer in nearby residents. By Itai Vardi.

Humans have been altering Earth for millennia, but only now are we wise to what we’re doing. How will we use that wisdom? By David Grinspoon.

Can't go letting a little dry land get in your way.

Warnings by scientists and environmentalists about an imminent collapse are dismissed by Iraqi officials as far-fetched. [Not so much.] By Barbara Bibbo.

A NEXT-GENERATION jet could take passengers from London to New York in just 20 minutes, according to its creator Canadian designer Charles Bombardier.

“Photons also have particle-like behavior, though, so when we think of reflection it’s easy to think of them as bouncing off the mirror—like the tennis ball in our earlier analogy—when the reality of the scenario is a little wavier.” By Stephen Skolnick.

Saturn’s largest moon might be the only place beyond Earth where humans could live. By Charles Wohlforth, Amanda R. Hendrix.

It takes almost a week to create the massive propeller for this ship.

Kodo design philosophy representing muscular power and the sleek body contours.

After centuries of war, Catholicism and science reconciled over meridian lines.

An attack via a burst of electromagnetic energy could cripple vital electronic systems, threatening national security and critical infrastructure, such as power grids and data centers. Nebraska engineers Christopher Tuan and Lim Nguyen have developed a cost-effective concrete that shields against intense pulses of electromagnetic energy, or EMP. Electronics inside structures built or coated with their shielding concrete are protected from EMP.

It's more or less repurposed horse feed.