Sometimes engineering is intellectually stunning. Sometimes the results are baffling. We look at both examples.

The internal combustion engine, for all its mechanical sophistication, still runs on a 19th-century mechanical idea: pistons rising and falling, a crankshaft spinning, a steam-age architecture ...

87 bodies were recovered by Sri Lanka’s navy after an Iranian frigate was sunk by a US submarine. The IDF crossed the Lebanese border and entered the south Lebanese town of Khiam. US embassies across ...