Engineering

Tall timber buildings could produce fewer emissions and sequester carbon dioxide

Drone pilots say they can save lives, but emergency responders want them grounded

Five days, 18 kids, nine robots and a whole lot of plastic bricks

Dams, reservoirs, canals and safe drinking water matter for absolutely everyone

Successful test suggests “Archinaut” system could soon assemble huge structures in orbit

Humans are increasingly entrusting our security, health and safety to “black box” intelligent machines

Rather than each carrying its own “brain,” they could share a single, remote one

Innovation and discovery as chronicled in Scientific American

The products that really wow us seem like pure wizardry

Roborace is creating a new motorsport to accelerate the arrival of self-driving cars

The decades-old pursuit of bulky, much-hyped Iron Man–like “exosuits” could give way to minimalist technologies more in sync with the human body