Long before electricity, ancient engineers built systems to harness natural ventilation. From Persian wind catchers to Roman ...

Beneath the mosaic floors of Roman villas, an ingenious system of underfloor heating transformed warmth into a mark of power ...

Mathematics education in India must stay strongly focused on areas that directly contribute to employability, research ...

From mysterious gears to precision tools, the British Museum holds artifacts that don’t quite fit the timeline. Are these traces of lost engineering—or are we missing something?

Trace 5,000 years of dam engineering, from ancient marvels to China's Tsangpo project, amid the rising race for Himalayan hydropower.

New research reveals fungi, not plants, were Earth's first land colonizers, emerging hundreds of millions of years earlier.

Using samples gathered from a permafrost tunnel north of Fairbanks, researchers have awakened microbes that were last active ...

People in Madrid take part in the annual Transhumance Festival, where shepherds reenact the ancient tradition of transporting ...

Scientists recently awakened ancient microbes that had been trapped in ice, some for around 40,000 years. The ancient life ...

In 2012, a US research team succeeded in propping up a 4.35-ton replica of a moai statue and making it “walk.” The technique, ...

Hidden beneath the sands of Egypt's Giza Plateau, three precisely engineered shafts have been rediscovered that may unlock access to a vast underground network whispered about by ancient Greek ...

Before the Erie canal was completed in 1825, it could take around three weeks to ship perishable goods between New York and ...