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Popular Mechanics
November 29, 2007
Joe Pappalardo |
Lasers of the Hidden Temple: Cosmos CAT Scan Digs for Ruins A University of Texas professor has come up with a novel idea that harnesses the forces of the cosmos to locate temples, vaults and other long-hidden structures.   |
National Defense
July 2006
Stew Magnuson |
Hunters Unearth Smuggling Tunnels Authorities along the border with Mexico have uncovered the longest underground smuggling passageway discovered by law enforcement so far. Training and technology used to hunt tunnels along the Mexican and Canadian borders has immediate applications in Southwest Asia. |
National Defense
September 2010
Grace V. Jean |
Scientists Say They Are Closer Than Ever to Predicting Earthquakes Researchers have discovered that there are warning signs that can be detected in the weeks and hours prior to temblors. |
National Defense
March 2011
Stew Magnuson |
Tunnel Detection Task Force Speeds Sensors, Robots to Border A federal task force organized to halt the construction of illegal tunnels being built underneath the U.S.-Mexico border has begun deploying ground sensors and robots in the Southwest. |
National Defense
February 2007
Stew Magnuson |
Daunting Challenges Face Those Waging Subterranean Warfare More and more adversarial countries are building networks of underground tunnels. The U.S. military needs to be prepared to fight underground. |
National Defense
December 2009
Stew Magnuson |
New Tunnel Detection Test Site in the Works The Defense and Homeland Security Departments are expected to break ground during the coming year on a joint clandestine tunnel detection test site at the Yuma Proving Grounds in Arizona. |
National Defense
September 2010
Eric Beidel |
Secret Tunnels Can't Hide From Gravity A project under way at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will use gravity to battle subterranean threats. |
Popular Mechanics
October 11, 2006
Alex Hutchinson |
Nuke Watch: How Scientists Sniffed Out N. Korea This timely exclusive looks at nuclear detection technology and finds out just how tough it is to hide a weapons blast. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2009
Courtney E. Howard |
Raytheon develops computer-equipped sensor to locate tunnels and land mines The sensor will harness the power of the Morphable Networked Micro-architecture (MONARCH) chip to detect underground threats like buried land mines and tunnels. |
National Defense
May 2006
Stew Magnuson |
Lawmakers Introduce Tunnel Legislation The movement of illegal immigrants or narcotics through a tunnel under a U.S. border is a felony, but there are no laws on the books preventing the excavation itself. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2011
Spencer Klein |
IceCube: The Polar Particle Hunter Searching Antarctica for the frozen paths of cosmic-ray neutrinos |
Geotimes
July 2007
Carolyn Gramling |
X-ray Eyes in the Sky Scientists are working on the next generation of low-orbiting satellites that they hope will see far past the Earth's surface and into its interior, to better understand the structure and composition of Earth's crust, mantle and core. |
Wired
October 23, 2007
Michael Levi |
In the Search for Loose Nukes, a Little Propaganda Goes a Long Way Strategic communication misleads terrorists into believing that nuclear attempts are futile. |
Wired
April 2003
Fred Hapgood |
Sub-Urban Renewal Thanks to new tunneling technologies, real estate trends are down. Way down. |
National Defense
November 2011
Stew Magnuson |
Border Patrol to Unveil New Strategy, Doctrine The Border Patrol will release a revamped strategy by the end of the year that will reflect new realities on the ground as well as the influx of technologies it has received during the past decade. |
Science News
June 14, 2003 |
TimeLine: June 10, 1933 Brainlike stalagmites found in Maryland cave... Matter created experimentally from light and cosmic rays... Contents of "empty space" revealed by colors of nebulae |
Popular Mechanics
January 26, 2010
Chris Sweeney |
The World's 18 Strangest Tunnels: Gallery The tourist and traveler can learn about tunnels all over the world and their unique features and background. |
