This is a new one: An architecture firm has released speculative plans to build a tower suspended from an asteroid that would hang down to Earth. Yes, you read that correctly. This building ...

A 730-ton steel ball suspended inside Taiwan's iconic Taipei 101 skyscraper protected the structure during the region's 7.4-magnitude earthquake this week. The ball is visible to the public on the ...

Known as a “tuned mass damper,” the 730-ton steel sphere is suspended between several ... the earthquake hit shows the pagoda-shaped skyscraper hardly moving. The security camera, mounted ...