When I was a kid, I discovered a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip that posed one of my own burning questions: How do they know the load limit on bridges? Calvin’s dad (incorrectly) tells him, “They drive ...

The Fehmarn Belt Tunnel, a €7 billion infrastructure project, is set to become the world’s longest prefabricated road and rail tunnel. Stretching 18 kilometers beneath the Baltic Sea, it will connect ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...

Immersed tube tunneling looks less like digging a hole and more like docking a spacecraft. In this video, I explain how engineers design, float, sink, and connect massive tunnel segments to build some ...

Russia has reportedly held secret talks with Chinese business executives to build an underwater tunnel connecting annexed Crimea to Russia, but such a structure is unlikely to solve Vladimir Putin's ...

Russian and Chinese businessmen with government ties secretly discussed plans in October to build an underwater tunnel connecting Russia with occupied Ukraine's Crimea and formed a "consortium" for ...

Madrid to Casablanca in five hours and change, without stepping foot in an airport. That's the pitch behind renewed efforts to build a rail link between Southern Europe and North Africa — all in time ...

Every day, long-haul truckers and commuters pass through the George Wallace Tunnel, briefly slipping away from daylight and 40 feet underwater, until reemerging into downtown Mobile, Alabama. Since ...

Traveling Norway's E39 highway is often an unforgettable, but arduous adventure. The route, which spans nearly 1,100 kilometers (683 miles), is an engineering marvel, and has been constructed in a ...