Gold mining is mostly a business of moving dirt. The pits are enormous, the haul trucks are enormous, and the metal hiding ...

By now, sheep on a solar farm barely count as a surprise. They crop the grass low, wedge into the strips a mower can't reach, ...

Most fights over a wind farm sound the same. Neighbors object to the look of the towers on a ridgeline, or the low hum, or the aircraft lights blinking after ...

Engineering teams are assembling a 3,200-ton, 334-meter tunneling machine underground inside the very hole it's meant to dig — because once built, it's simply too massive to move any other way. The ...

The Philippines is about to prove that solar and fish farming don't have to be enemies — 422 megawatts of panels lifted on steel stilts above active fish ponds, not floating on them, keeping the water ...

A German fusion startup called Marvel Fusion is bankrolling two of the three most powerful lasers ever aimed at a single point in American history, and they're doing it on a Colorado university campus ...

Boring machines get a party when they break through. Someone films the cutterhead punching out of the rock face, a politician turns up in a hard hat, and the ...

A floating solar ring above the Arctic Circle is now running a Norwegian salmon farm on more than 90% renewable power — in a place that barely sees the sun in January — and the diesel generator that ...

Almost every wind turbine you have driven past sits on a steel tube. It is the part nobody photographs and the part nobody ...

New York is finally finishing the subway line it promised a century ago, and the reason it might actually work this time is a 700-ton German machine that solves the exact problem that left Seattle's ...

Anduril just unveiled a tiltrotor drone at Farnborough that packs 76 laser-guided rockets into an airframe that folds into a shipping container — and that's not even the most audacious part of the ...

China just built a hydraulic cylinder taller than a 17-story building that can push with the force of 3,500 cars simultaneously — and it just became the beating heart of the tallest pile-driving ship ...