Insfrastruktur world

Driverless trains hauling freight around the clock. We count down the five corridors leading the autonomous rail revolution.

Water on the Moon is rocket fuel waiting to happen. The five projects racing to mine it by 2032.

Beneath deserts and cities, engineers are banking water underground against drought. We count down the five largest underground reservoirs on Earth.

Burying the grid to beat storms, wildfires, and sabotage. The five underground power highway megaprojects being built by 2030.

Rising seas and superstorms are forcing cities to rebuild. The five most ambitious flood-proof city megaprojects rising by 2032.

Storing electricity as liquid air at minus 196 degrees. We count down the five largest liquid air energy storage plants heading for 2030.

Feeding billions takes rivers of water. We count down the five largest irrigation megaprojects on the planet.

Why cool servers with air conditioning when space is freezing? The five boldest plans to move data centers into orbit by 2030.

Artificial islands in the North Sea built to harvest offshore wind at a scale never seen before. The five energy islands that could power tens of millions of homes by 2032.

From AI fire-spotting satellites to fireproof power grids, we count down the megaprojects fighting the world's fiercest wildfires.

Cold War fortresses built for nuclear war, now museums, hotels, and data centers. We count down the strangest second lives.

The world's highest viewpoints. From Paris to Jeddah to Tokyo's mile-high dreams, we count down the towers touching the sky.

Mile-high towers, pyramids in Tokyo Bay, a skyscraper hanging from an asteroid. Architecture's wildest dreams, counted down.

The Earth makes clean fuel underground. We count down the countries racing to find it, from Mali to France to Australia.

Storing energy as squeezed air in underground caverns. The fifty-year-old technology becoming the grid's savings account.

Vast artificial seas drowning valleys for power and water. We count down the five largest lakes humans ever built.

America, China, India, Europe, and the Emirates. Five strategies, one red destination. We count down the nations racing to Mars.

Beneath the waves run humanity's most extreme tunnels. Ranked by length, from Japan's Seikan to the Fehmarn Belt rising now.

Turning the tropical ocean's temperature difference into endless clean power. The technology fifty years in the making.

Storing clean energy in sand, salt, and hot rock. We count down the unsung technology solving renewable energy's biggest problem.

Highways that generate power. From cracked French experiments to Germany's solar noise barriers, the story of roads paved with sunlight.

A ribbon to orbit, a lunar freight line, a ring around the planet. We count down the boldest ideas for climbing to space without rockets.

Dome homes, floating neighborhoods, and grids that refuse to go dark. We count down the engineering fighting back against stronger storms.

Giant robotic printers are building houses, bridges, and towers layer by layer. We count down the five projects leading the construction revolution in 2026.

From a 3D-printed home in Texas to a frozen outpost in Antarctica — the five Earth-based habitats preparing humanity for life on Mars.