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Science and technology
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How waves of ionized gas and laser pulses unleash energy gradients a thousand times higher than giant particle tunnels.
Engineering
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How engineers froze a geological fault hundreds of meters beneath the Alps to excavate the longest railway tunnel on the planet
Engineering
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Why British engineers decided to bury thousand-ton monsters beneath the English Channel instead of extracting them to the surface.
Engineering
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A dual-purpose engineering feat capable of clearing urban traffic in minutes to channel three million cubic meters of torrential water.
Science and technology
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A 3.4-kilometer superconducting accelerator generates 27,000 X-ray flashes per second to record chemical bonds in full motion.
Geology
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Three hundred meters beneath the Chihuahua desert, a boiling aquifer fed the planet's largest selenite crystals for half a million years.
Engineering
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Why Denmark and Sweden had to invent an untouched ecosystem in the middle of the strait to connect two nations by land.
Engineering
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Connecting Europe and Asia under the Bosphorus Strait using gigantic concrete modules submerged with millimeter precision.
Engineering
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How precision engineering joined two excavation fronts beneath 2,300 meters of solid rock with millimeter accuracy.
Engineering
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Beneath the surface of the Japanese capital lies a monumental chamber supported by 59 pillars weighing 500 tons and powered by airplane turbines.
Biology
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How this bird strikes wood at 1,200 times the force of gravity without suffering any brain damage.
Animals
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It has 22 hypersensitive tentacles with which it identifies and devours prey in less than two-tenths of a second.