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Engineering
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To prevent the immense terminal from snapping in two due to seabed subsidence, engineers turned its foundation into a colossal moving puzzle.
Nature
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Engineering
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The colossal 9.7-kilometer Malaysian engineering feat that clears vehicular traffic in minutes to channel three million cubic meters of floodwaters.
Engineering
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From the subsoil of major cities to deep mines, engineers cool the earth to sub-zero temperatures to excavate without collapsing cities.
Engineering
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In 1930, engineers lifted and rotated an eight-story skyscraper without interrupting a single phone call or breaking a pipe.
Engineering
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The amazing naval engineering of variable buoyancy capable of carrying entire oil rigs and destroyers on board.
Engineering
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Two gates the size of the Eiffel Tower that float, rotate on colossal mechanical ball joints, and sink to stop ocean storms.
Engineering
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Built on an artificial island sinking into the sea, Osaka's colossal terminal is balanced column by column thanks to hundreds of jacks.
Geology
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How trillions of prehistoric microbes oxidized the oceans and forged the world's largest ore deposits.
Engineering
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Hidden fifty meters underground, a titanic complex of aircraft turbines and 500-ton pillars protects the planet's largest metropolis.
Engineering
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At the end of the 19th century, Chicago engineers altered the hydrography of a continent to keep the city from poisoning itself with its own waste.
History
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How a stifling heatwave and a collapsed river forced history's greatest sanitary engineering revolution.