Belgian architects build a tower in a barn. But my, it uses a lot of lumber.

It seems that these days you can build just about anything with a CNC machine.

Neri&Hu turn climbing the stairs into an experience for Bloomberg in Hong Kong.

A good, if not very accurate, idea.

Why go diagonally when you can go straight up?

160 tons of steel and 10 tons of copper never looked so good

And believe it or not, it's environmentally friendly!

Because if you make it beautiful and open, people will use it.

Syte Architects insert a mezzanine and a terrific storage stair in existing loft.

Sometimes you wonder what they were thinking.

When the splendid full moon rises this weekend, she’ll look a bit bigger and brighter than usual.

These incredible images sent back by the Juno spacecraft gives us a detailed look at Jupiter.

From supermoons and blood moons to black moons and blue moons, here’s a cheat sheet to the full moon in all of her luminous guises.

Not only did he have a startlingly brilliant brain for physics, but Stephen Hawking had a pretty good knack for life as well.

This month's Full Buck blood moon will star in the longest total lunar eclipse of the century.

An astronaut-eye's view of Hurricane Florence from the International Space Station shows why everyone is kind of freaking out.

The official naming organization has approved the names to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 8 mission.

See the view captured by the International Space Station as the category 4 hurricane makes landfall over Florida.

Hubble just took the most detailed image yet of the eerie and mysterious Ghost Nebula, some 550 light-years from Earth.

Nicknamed 'Farout' by the team that discovered it, the celestial object is some 11,160,000,000 miles away.

Our blue-green Earth might have actually been a different color, thanks to this molecule.

For billions of years, a tiny moon has been slyly orbiting the ice giant – now the little lovely has a poetic name, as well as a surprisingly violent backstory.

To cap off a week of black hole fever, the cosmic object has now been named by a language professor in Hawaii.

Hubble's image of Messier 3 reveals what astronomers say is one of the prettiest "globular clusters" in the universe.

More than just a typical aurora, researchers have now figured what powers this stunning lightshow and where it comes from.

Scientists think there is a hidden, protected ocean inside of Pluto – and the implications are wild.

The so-called 'transient lunar phenomena' has been stumping scientists for years – but an explanation may be in the works.

The Grand Inga dam will be double the size of China's Three Gorges, but big questions remain about whether ordinary Africans will actually get its electricity.

Think you need to be an engineer and spend a bundle to create a mini-hydropower generator? Think again.

Emissions from tropical hydropower dams in Brazil are up to four times higher than often assumed, new research shows.

A new type of hydrokinetic turbine sits within irrigation canals and could power several homes from the flow of water.

While grid-scale liquid metal batteries might be a more exciting technology, good old pumped hydro storage is one of the ways we can store power from intermittent sources (like solar & wind) or shift supply around (from the night to peak use).

A new study published by The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences serves as a great example of the interconnectedness of nature and how human activity can disrupt life-sustaining systems.

A man named Manfred Mornhinweg found the modern world too "noisy and hectic", so he decided to build himself a house on a quiet 40 hectare piece of land in Chile.

A new technology developed by Korean researchers could generate electricity from the the motion of water in our toilets as well as rivers and streams, even rain drops.

A mix of wind, solar and hydro power could replace fossil fuels in every country in the world.

Income for farmers, or fracked natural gas—will communities be allowed to decide?

UK households can now buy 15 percent green gas and 100 percent green electricity with one easy tariff.

We used to be able to justify burning a bit of fossil gas, but we cannot anymore.

Oil and gas companies have until 2023 to make 'Paris compatible' plans, or face divestment.

When one tiny home isn't quite enough, how about adding another?

We are all cutting back in the West, but more flying in developing countries overwhelms the savings.

Current events could lead to another oil embargo by Saudi Arabia, and it could be 1973 all over again

That's what a lot of people are saying as new pollution rules for 2020 get closer.

Drivers of traditional "ICE" cars often underestimate the convenience of going electric.

Petrochemicals are becoming increasingly important to the oil industry as cars go electric.

When the harvest has been poor, rates of adulteration rise.

We apologize for the bad pun in the title, sometimes it's just hard to resist. Fair trade is a familiar concept to our readers. Aside from writing about well-known fair trade commodities like chocolate and coffee, we've also seen posts on everything

A commercial fish farm in El Borboton, Honduras is using fish guts--heads, skins, and internal organs--to produce biodiesel. Instead of dumping what's left after filleting for commercial sale, Saint Peter's cooks the parts down to produce 300,000

Several years ago, this established cooperative in Honduras decided to pursue Rainforest Alliance certification for its palm oil. Find out what it looks like today.