Engineering News

Over the centuries, historians managed to piece together a great deal of the truth about the Roman Empire through records and the scattered, incomplete archaeological sites remaining in Europe.

Like many other psychological conditions, depression is poorly understood both by the general populace and, to an extent, the medical community.

Human understanding has progressed a long way from seeing the moon as a deity traveling through the sky or a big wheel of cheese.

A debate has long raged within the music industry over whether old-fashioned records produce a higher quality sound. According to experts, it may depend on preference.

With humans sending an ever-increasing number of satellites and other craft into orbit around the plant, the amount of junk that comes along with it has grown as well.

Scientists said recently they had successfully used nanotechnology to develop a way to turn plant matter into the building blocks of plastics.

When completed, the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will be one of the world's most technologically advanced structures, according to engineers.

Scientists recently published the results of a study that aimed to quantify the dangers associated with constructing wind farms off the coast of the U.S.

While the ponytail may be a ubiquitous hairstyle favored by those on the run, its simple elegance belies its complex mathematical shape, scientists said recently.

Federal officials lent their approval this week to the first new nuclear power facility in the U.S. in more than three decades, potentially paving the way for other plants.