Bridges are meant to provide safe passage over treacherous terrain, but some are more frightening than others. Whether due to ...

Welcome to The Impossible Build! Here, we take on massive, ambitious building projects that most would call impossible — and ...

Extreme weather, chronic underfunding and age are conspiring to keep Louisiana's infrastructure falling behind despite recent ...

Drivers in Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Lafayette are losing dozens of hours per year due to congestion. Other severe ...

GUIYANG -- What draws extreme sports enthusiasts to the remote mountains of Southwest China's Guizhou province? The answer lies in its world-class bridges spanning deep gorges. Since Tuesday, 31 top ...

In brief: DIY engineers are constantly pushing the limits of drone performance and design. Recently, a YouTuber built what is believed to be the world's smallest first-person-view drone. Around the ...

Eight bridges along Interstate 80 stand ready for any movement, thanks to an $18-million seismic retrofit program. It involved upgrades to four westbound and four eastbound bridges: I-700, I-717, ...

Spanish conquistadors couldn't believe their eyes while exploring the rugged terrain of the Andes during their invasion of Peru. On entering Inca territory in the 16th century, they were bowled over ...

The Federal Reserve’s former top-ranking official overseeing climate risk says the US economy faces a series of long-term, structural shocks as a result of increasingly extreme weather patterns. Kevin ...

Buildings and urban infrastructure are designed to withstand earthquakes and other natural disasters, based on data from previous events. But how do you design a building to get through the extreme ...

Every October, 100,000 visitors descend on Fayetteville, West Virginia, a small town of less than 3,000, for a single-day event unlike anything else. Bridge Day, held annually on the third Saturday in ...