Launching a ship is one of the most dangerous moments in its life. This video examines five historical ship launches that did not go according to plan. From massive waves to fatal structural failures, ...

Every school day in the Las Vegas Valley, crossing guards say they are one bad decision away from disaster. Some say flat out ...

Picture a spacecraft returning to Earth after a long journey. The vehicle slams into the planet's atmosphere at roughly 17,000 miles per hour. A shockwave erupts. Molecules in the air are ripped apart ...

After 90 years of using injection wells to bury wastewater, including the past 13 years as the world’s biggest producer of oil and gas, the United States has a profound pollution crisis. The oil and ...

The Muppet Show' with Sabrina Carpenter and 'The Artful Dodger' season 2 highlight Disney+'s new movies and shows in February ...

NASA’s first crewed moon mission in decades was delayed as its engineers grapple with an all-too-familiar rocket problem: hydrogen leaks. Fixing the issue is even trickier than it may seem.

A new report from Gartner argues that by 2028, misconfigured AI will shut down the national critical infrastructure in a G20 ...

The record reveals dramatic swings. Three dry intervals brought less than 700 millimeters of rain per year, while two wet ...

However, there is a third, far less discussed, factor too: the “normalisation of deviance” problem, as engineers and sociologists might say. This phrase first cropped up after the 1986 Challenger ...

Modern disasters rarely occur because safety standards were absent. They occur because, at the moment of need, no one could evidence whether safety still ...

Monthly cloud outages, like the recent Azure one, continue to disrupt enterprises worldwide. The culprits include hiring ...

For more than 6 decades, NCAR has shown that open, collaborative science can save lives, support economic resilience and ...