The Catesby Tunnel, in the UK, is an old Victorian railway tunnel that has a new use: a secretive car testing facility, like a wind …

At the University of California San Diego, there’s the Shake Table: an earthquake simulator with the heaviest payload capacity in …

I went inside the former hotel where, for science (and money), people are volunteering to get colds, flu, and RSV. □ Challenge …

At CEA-Leti, in Grenoble, there’s a “funicular” that not many people get to ride: because it’s between two clean rooms, and getting …

Agroscope is a Swiss government-backed agricultural research lab. It’s got a lot of other resarch projects too, but it also keeps a …

Meiringen Air Base, in Switzerland, has an unusual feature: two public roads that go straight over the runway. How do they keep it …

At the Department of Collective Behaviour, part of the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, researchers are putting locusts into …

Hideyasu Ito runs the Micro Hovercraft Laboratory, and I got to meet him and ride his incredible four-bubble hovercraft.

I thought maglev trains were a dead-end technology: but it looks like I was wrong. At JR Central’s Yamanashi Maglev Test Track, …