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A crack in the road in Canada (Credit: Guy Dore)
Climate change

The roads and buildings melting away

By Chris Baraniuk

The Large Hadron Collider would have seemed incomprehensibly vast and complicated to our ancestors (Credit: Getty Images)
Engineering
The biggest things humans could build
By Anders Sandberg
Silhouetted figure in bunker (Credit: Getty Images)
Engineering
The luxury bunkers built for doomsday
By Bradley Garrett
Oil borehole in China (Credit: Getty Images)
Engineering
The deepest hole ever dug
By Mark Piesing
Tokyo's skyline (Getty Images)
Japan: Untold Stories
The secrets of Japan's dancing towers
By Martha Henriques
(Credit: Public Domain/Wikipedia)
Engineering
The killer flood made of molasses
By Veronique Greenwood
The tunnels under the pyramid are open to visitors (Credit: diego_cue/Wikimedia Commons)
In Depth
The pyramid mistaken for a mountain
By Zaria Gorvett
(Credit: John Rick)
History
How power struggles create religion
By William Park
(Credit: Getty Images)
Engineering
How to take an oil rig apart
By Paul Marks
(Credit: William Park)
Robot
How to build a fighting robot
By William Park
(Credit: Slashvee/ Flickr/CC-BY-2.0)
Engineering
Da Vinci's lessons in design genius
By Zaria Gorvett
(Credit: World Beneath Your Feet/ BBC
Engineering
The mine that lies under the sea
(Credit: Getty Images)
Best of BBC Future
The Nasca mystery solved from space
By William Park
(Credit: BBCW)
Britain
The ‘alien’ forts off Britain's coast
Venice, Italy (Credit: Google Earth)
In Depth
A rare view of humanity’s footprint
By William Park
(Credit: Getty Images)
In Depth
Why China builds giant dams
By Philip Ball