Creating Rorschach's signature look took months of R&D; and plenty of experiments with ink and fabric. Here's how filmmakers created the striking look of Watchmen's beloved antihero.

A structural engineer at Oregon State University, Chris Higgins casts concrete bridge parts and exposes them to stresses that cause real-world bridges to fail, such as repeated freeze-and-thaw cycles and the weight and pressure of traffic loads. (Published in the March 2009 issue)

While we're excited about Oregon Trail for the iPhone, not every game works well for the small touchscreen platform. Here are five that we'd love to see.

Fulfilling a decades-old dream, or capturing never-before-filmed animals and behavior, is not why Howard Hall made Under the Sea 3D–he wanted to draw attention to the effects of global warming on the planet's oceans.

The term, "shovel-ready" has mustered political clout recently. Here is why a shovel-ready mandate is a quick-fix approach to infrastructure that continues with the legacy of short-term thinking which has helped shape the current infrastructure crisis