It took engineers nearly half a century to determine why the SS Schenectady, while docked quietly in a harbor off Portland, Ore. one day, suddenly snapped in half. For local residents, the event was ...

Lorsque les tours jumelles se sont effondrées en 2001, de nombreux ingénieurs pensaient que l'ère des gratte-ciel touchait à sa fin. Mais cette catastrophe sans précédent a marqué un tournant d'une to ...

In ordinary weather conditions, metallurgy never could have played a role in the sinking of the RMS Titanic in the early morning hours of April 15, 1912. But the north Atlantic weather conditions on ...