The CERN Large Hadron Collider
A wide concrete cavern opens up beneath the Swiss-French border. Two bright steel cylinders, twenty-five metres long and fifteen wide, hang from overhead cranes…
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engineering
The Adapter They Built on Apollo 13
At 7:30 in the evening of 15 April 1970, in a back room of the Grumman Aerospace plant in Bethpage, Long Island, a 41-year-old…
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Fresh Water from the Sea
In a hot climate, near the sea, with limited surface water and a growing population, the cheapest litre of drinking water often comes from…
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How Offshore Wind Works
In late 2024 the United Kingdom crossed an unseen threshold. More than fifteen gigawatts of offshore wind capacity was operating, under construction, or contracted…
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