Discover the story of the Antarctic Snow Cruiser, a massive machine built to explore the frozen continent—but doomed by poor design and harsh conditions. Once a symbol of innovation, it quickly became ...

I became the face often attached to the failure to respond adequately to Hurricane Katrina. But the failures were shared at all levels of government.

Every engineer is going to have a bad day, but only an unlucky few will have a day so bad that it registers on a seismometer. We’ve always had a morbid fascination with engineering mega-failures, few ...

After three catastrophic in-flight failures in a row, SpaceX readied a huge Super Heavy-Starship rocket for launch Sunday evening from the Texas Gulf Coast to put a variety of upgrades to the test and ...