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Engineering

The Large Hadron Collider would have seemed incomprehensibly vast and complicated to our ancestors (Credit: Getty Images)
Engineering

The biggest things humans could build

By Anders Sandberg

Silhouetted figure in bunker (Credit: Getty Images)
Engineering
The luxury bunkers built for doomsday
By Bradley Garrett
Oil borehole in China (Credit: Getty Images)
Engineering
The deepest hole ever dug
By Mark Piesing
(Credit: Public Domain/Wikipedia)
Engineering
The killer flood made of molasses
By Veronique Greenwood
The tunnels under the pyramid are open to visitors (Credit: diego_cue/Wikimedia Commons)
In Depth
The pyramid mistaken for a mountain
By Zaria Gorvett
(Credit: John Rick)
History
How power struggles create religion
By William Park
(Credit: Getty Images)
Engineering
How to take an oil rig apart
By Paul Marks
(Credit: William Park)
Robot
How to build a fighting robot
By William Park
(Credit: Slashvee/ Flickr/CC-BY-2.0)
Engineering
Da Vinci's lessons in design genius
By Zaria Gorvett
(Credit: World Beneath Your Feet/ BBC
Engineering
The mine that lies under the sea
Future
(Credit: Getty Images)
Best of BBC Future
The Nasca mystery solved from space
By William Park
(Credit: BBCW)
Britain
The ‘alien’ forts off Britain's coast
Future
Venice, Italy (Credit: Google Earth)
In Depth
A rare view of humanity’s footprint
By William Park
(Credit: Getty Images)
In Depth
Why China builds giant dams
By Philip Ball
(Credit: Science Photo Library)
In Depth
Can planes come back from the dead?
By Stephen Dowling
One entrance into the tunnels was found in the basement of their patron’s former house (Credit: Chris Iles/Friends of Williamson’s Tunnels/www.williamsontunnels.com)
Best of 2015
The lost tunnels beneath the UK
By Chris Baraniuk
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