The B-2 Spirit was already hard to see, but the B-21 Raider’s smaller radar return shows how stealth engineering is changing

At first glance, the B-21 looks like a close cousin of the B-2 Spirit. Both are flying-wing bombers, with no traditional tail ...

Dalian’s new airport will sit on an artificial island built for 80 million passengers, and the engineering challenge is the sea itself

China is building an airport on an artificial island, betting that reclaimed land can support 80 million passengers.

China’s mini reactor does not look like a giant plant, but it can power homes, desalinate water, and change remote energy

China's compact Linglong One reactor could power thousands of homes and test whether small nuclear plants can scale.

The Mi-24 Hind was built to attack and carry troops, but one painted in U.S. Coast Guard colors became a strange Cold War movie double

A Soviet Mi-24 Hind wore U.S. Coast Guard colors for a movie role, creating one of aviation's strangest disguises.

A mountain was hollowed out for nuclear waste, but the real story is the 90,000 tons that never reached the desert

The United States carved a tunnel system into Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert, spent nearly $15 billion on the effort, ...

The 17-year-old did not need a secret facility: His backyard shed, old batteries, and smoke detectors were enough to scare a neighborhood

A teenager's backyard nuclear experiment alarmed federal agencies and turned a suburban shed into a cleanup site.

A chamber hotter than the Sun stayed stable for 102 seconds, and energy’s oldest promise suddenly looks less impossible

The Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research device, better known as KSTAR, sustained plasma at about 180 million ...

Rolls-Royce is turning a quiet Welsh site into a nuclear bet, and the strange part is how many homes three small reactors could power

Rolls-Royce moves ahead with three SMRs in Wales, a nuclear project that could power 3 million homes for decades.

A frozen sea forced Russia to move eight nuclear icebreakers, and the cargo behind them matters more than the ice

TASS quoted Rosatom chief Alexey Likhachev as saying, “From the beginning of December, all eight icebreakers will embark on ...

A truck that eats bottles and makes concrete sand could solve the recycling problem cities keep hauling away

Instead of hauling empty glass bottles nearly 250 miles to Atlanta, the city’s local circular economy nonprofit, Envision ...

The Moon material ended up in a desert field: China is using basalt fiber to protect crops from sand, salt, and erosion

China is taking a material that first caught public attention on the far side of the Moon and putting it to work in a much ...

A plane that stops in 2 seconds on a carrier tells a bigger story: warships survive because logistics can fly

The Greyhound can hit the carrier deck at about 149 mph and stop in roughly 2 seconds after its tailhook catches the ...