Can you hear me now? David Goldman/AP October 27, 2016 Deep underground, smartphones can save miners’ lives Sudeep Pasricha, Colorado State University Mine communications are complex, slow and unreliable. The solution to keeping miners safe, and rescuing them when disaster strikes, might just be in their hands already.
Could this become a regular occurance? MTAPhotos/flickr May 11, 2016 How to save underground railways from climate change flooding Dragan Savic, University of Exeter Cities’ metros and subways are threatened by rising flood risks but innovative engineering could protect them.
Texas blind salamander. John Perry/Flickr April 25, 2016 There be dragons? Creatures you might find on a real journey to the centre of the Earth Christopher Terrell Nield, Nottingham Trent University A new project hopes to drill through the Earth’s crust for the first time. But what beasties lurk deep beneath our feet?