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Popular Mechanics
June 2007
Jeff Wise |
Turkey Building the World's Deepest Immersed Tube Tunnel Soon, the Turks will connect Europe and Asia under the Bosporus via a 8.25-mile-long Marmaray Tunnel, which will provide a rail link for a rapid transit system.   |
Popular Mechanics
December 2, 2009
Chris Sweeney |
The World's 18 Strangest Roadways: Gallery The unique attributes of some far flung highways with comments by engineering experts. |
Wired
April 2003
Fred Hapgood |
Sub-Urban Renewal Thanks to new tunneling technologies, real estate trends are down. Way down. |
Wired
August 21, 2007
Julian Smith |
Quake Fears, Ancient Finds Have Europe-Asia Tunnel on Nonstop Delay The Marmaray tunnel project is ambitious enough to worry even the most experienced engineers, but its location could give a seismologist night sweats. All this work is taking place just 12 miles from the North Anatolian Fault, Eurasia's version of the San Andreas. |
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
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. |
British Heritage
May 2006
Sian Ellis |
Isambard Kingdom Brunel British industry could fuel the British empire when engineers like Isambard Brunel connected the modern world in the 19th century. |
British Heritage
Richard Tames |
Brunel and The Great Western Railway Isambard Kingdom Brunel achieves one of his greatest engineering successes, and establishes himself as one of Victorian Britain's brightest lights. |
Popular Mechanics
December 8, 2009
Erik Sofge |
The Top 5 Engineering Projects of 2009 These projects involved tunnels, bridges, earthquake proofing, and environmental enhancements. |
Geotimes
November 2003
Megan Sever |
Biblical tunnel timing The Siloam Tunnel in Jerusalem, Israel, was actually built when the Bible says it was, according to new geological dating. The first well-identified biblical structure to be radiometrically dated, the man-made tunnel is around 2,700 years old. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2009
Sandra Upson |
Finland's Nuclear Waste Solution Scandinavians are leading the world in the disposal of spent nuclear fuel |
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. |
High on Adventure
August 2005
Rosen & Giordano |
Biking the Hiawatha Trail Highlights, history and "how to" information are provided for those interested in biking the Hiawatha Trail. The route, near the Montana-Idaho border, was once one of the most scenic train rides in the world. |
Popular Mechanics
June 23, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
10 Lessons Learned From Past Rail Accidents It's calamitous enough when one train rear-ends another, as happened yesterday in Washington. But it's often deadlier when two trains meet head-on. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2008
Kalee Thompson |
Inferno on the Interstate: What Went Wrong? Heavyweight traffic, a slick roadway and a narrow tunnel with a blind curve add up to the big-rig version of the perfect storm. |
National Defense
August 2012
Eric Beidel |
Giant Plug May Help Stop Mass Transit Disasters The DHS Science and Technology Directorate earlier this year successfully tested its resilient tunnel plug, a giant inflatable stopper that can be used to keep gushing water or chemical and biological agents from spreading throughout transit tunnels. |
Military History
May 2005
Doug Pricer |
Surviving the Great Escape: A POW Remembers Although George McKiel helped those digging the tunnel out of Stalag Luft III, he did not participate in the actual escape -- and was thus spared execution. |
National Defense
January 2009
Magnuson & Rusling |
DHS Testing Specialized Plug to Contain Subway Fires Researchers at West Virginia University and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are developing a "tunnel plug" that would stop fires from spreading in underground train stations. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2005
Justin Mullins |
London Broil? The UK's capital prepares for rising tides and temperatures. "It's not a question of if, but when," says Baroness Barbara Young, head of Britain's Environment Agency. |
CIO
December 1, 2000
Meridith Levinson |
The Money Pit Could IT have prevented the largest, most expensive, most complex public works project in the history of the United States from becoming a byword for poor and possibly felonious project management? |
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. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2005
Wendy Wolfson |
The Big Leak Boston's Big Dig is the most expensive highway project in U.S. history. After years of ever growing frustration and costs, the the crucial Central Artery/Tunnel is open to traffic but it leaks. |
World War II
November 2007
Ronald H. Bailey |
The Not-So-Great Escape: German POWs in the U.S. during WWII This time, it was German POWs digging their way out of an Arizona prison camp in a plot that was brilliant, daring, and farcical. |
American Family Physician
July 15, 2003 |
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome What is carpal tunnel syndrome?... What are some symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome?... How does my doctor know that I have carpal tunnel syndrome?... How is carpal tunnel syndrome treated?... What is carpal tunnel release surgery?... etc. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2008
Joe Pappalardo |
High-Tech Border Patrol: 5 New Tricks to Find Smuggler Tunnels From ground penetrating radar to cosmic rays, new technology gives border patrol the edge. |
