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It was a symbol of progress until it became a monument to tragedy. When the dam gave way, entire communities were wiped out in minutes, leaving behind a story of human error, arrogance, and loss.

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A play about the worst industrial accident in Australian history is one of the main attractions in the Melbourne Theatre ...

Flawed engineering and inadequate testing contributed to the catastrophic implosion of a private submersible during a 2023 ...

Nord Stream 2 was supposed to be a triumph of modern engineering - a 760-mile twin pipeline beneath the Baltic Sea, connecting Russia directly to Europe. But when war broke out, it became a symbol of ...

Flawed engineering and inadequate testing contributed to the catastrophic implosion of a private submersible during a 2023 expedition to the Titanic wreckage, the US National Transportation Safety ...