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SWITZERLAND UNDERGROUND TUNNELS
Beneath the Alps, Switzerland quietly built an underground network so large it feels like another countryHidden beneath the Swiss Alps is one of the world’s most remarkable engineering networks: more than 1,400 tunnels spanning over 2,000 kilom...
A toothless Iran? Missile and drone strikes show it can still inflict pain.Despite U.S. and Israeli claims of significantly degrading Iran's military capabilities, recent attacks on U.S. bases and Persian Gulf coun...
What Happens When We Stop Crossing Mountains and Start Going Through ThemMountains once defined human limits, but 19th-century tunnels began a shift. Modern base tunnels, like the Gotthard, ignore mountain shapes...
An Underground World Built to Make Mountains Disappear for Travel and PowerEngineers are now building vital infrastructure deep underground, bypassing mountains. This modern approach uses advanced physics and machi...
Beneath the mountains: Switzerland’s hidden tunnel networkSwitzerland is popular for its mountains, lakes, and railroads, but much of its infrastructure exists underground. Over the years, the coun...
A startup is tapping underground parking garages for clean energyEnerdrape, a Swiss startup, introduces a novel approach to urban decarbonization. It uses underground heat to power buildings. The technolo...
A brief history of the 2,000-pound Mark 80 bombs central to U.S.-Israeli tensionsThe Mark 84 is a 2,000-pound bomb, part of the Pentagon's Mark 80 series. President Biden delayed a shipment to Israel of these bombs amid ...
Are Israel, Hamas committing war crimes in Gaza?As a grassroots movement, Hamas is deeply embedded in Palestinian society, with a political operation and charities separate from its secre...
Starting at $500,000: A Swiss mountain vault for storing richesThe idea comes from entrepreneurs in central Switzerland, home of the Bruenig massif, a hulking mountain about 25 miles southwest of Lucern...
SAIL to supply 50,000 tonne steel for CERN-like Neutrino ObservatoryThe Steel Authority of India will supply 50,000 tonne of special steels for building a CERN-like underground detector for the India-based N...
- Marmot Express: Journey to the alpine meadows of Rochers-de-Naye, Switzerland
The squirrel-like creatures that live in Rochers-de-Naye fascinated Hugh & Colleen Gantzer as much as the Swiss eyrie's collection of plant...