Humans have long been obsessed with building big, and as the world strives to combat climate change, megastructures may hold the key to a more sustainable future. For centuries, humans have harnessed ...

A vast orbital megastructure circles Earth in a vision of planet-scale engineering, as this documentary explores bold sci-fi solutions to real global threats. It covers proposals like cooling super ...

New theoretical models have strengthened the case that immense, energy-harvesting structures orbiting their host stars could exist in principle in distant stellar systems. With the right engineering ...

LA-based Sharleen Ernster is a mother of two daughters, aged 14 and 16. Some years ago, Ernster says, she hadn’t heard of Brandy Melville. But today, her Gen Alpha daughter influences “probably 50%” ...

A scientist at the University of Glasgow has delved into the possible existence of massive hypothetical energy-harvesting structures called Dyson spheres. In a new study, they showed that both stellar ...

This article serves as a brief January recap and a forecast into February. Some records were set in January that may be the first to have ever happened in my lifetime. As February begins we have some ...

Mantle plumes beneath volcanic hotspots, like Hawaii, Iceland, and the Galapagos, seem to be anchored into a large structure within the core-mantle boundary (CMB). A new study, published in Science ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jetavanaramaya, a huge religious structure in Sri Lanka, was completed in about 301 CE. - Jeremy Woodhouse/Photodisc/Getty Images ...

As free solo climber Alex Honnold prepares for one of the most daring feats of his career—a ropeless climb of one of the world’s tallest buildings—attention turns to these elite climbers who have ...

Realignment aims to foster more cross-division collaboration to present 'one unified storytelling brand across our flywheel,' Ayaz writes in memo Disney has assembled the Star Destroyer of marketing ...

Federal agents shot and killed a 37-year-old Minneapolis resident, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, at about 9 a.m. Central time on Saturday morning. A video shared with The New York Times by a witness and her ...