The microbe Pyrodictium abyssi is an archaeon—a member of what's known as the third domain of life—and an extremophile. It lives in deep-sea thermal vents, at temperatures above the boiling point of ...

Join us as we take you on a tour of the worlds biggest mega projects, from crazy constructions to the newest innovations and mind blowing architecture. The Impossible Build aims to show you the ...

Astroneer has been doing the rounds since 2016 and is doing very well for itself, still holding a Very Positive rating on Steam and still being supported and releasing new DLC. In that time, it has ...

This week in news from The Debrief… the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has embarked on a bold new initiative to explore altermagnetism—a newly discovered and puzzling state of ...

Buildings and urban infrastructure are designed to withstand earthquakes and other natural disasters, based on data from previous events. But how do you design a building to get through the extreme ...

Navigating the extreme cold of deep space or handling super-chilled liquid fuels here on Earth requires materials that won't break. Most metals become brittle and fracture at such low temperatures.

After deadly flooding in central Texas in 1987, some thought they’d proven they could handle Mother Nature’s best punch. Then came this month’s horrific flash floods, when unfathomable amounts of rain ...

Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand Americans’ attitudes toward and experiences with extreme weather. For this analysis, we surveyed 5,085 U.S. adults from April 28 to May 4, 2025.

If advanced alien civilisations are building vast satellite swarms designed to harvest a star’s energy, we should be able to see them – so why haven’t we? One answer might be that these structures, ...

Abstract: The current fundamental limits such as Shockley–Queisser, ergodic light-trapping limit, diffraction-limited imaging (Abbe diffraction limit), noise in detection, reciprocal optical systems ...

Follow the race to build a world-class airport on the site of one of America’s busiest flying hubs. In New York City, a team of elite engineers and construction workers are on a mission to build the ...