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Tunneling is complete for that section, according to Metro.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2025

Originally proposed by physicist Richard Feynman in 1959, nanotechnology got a major boost when Austrian researchers developed the Scanning Tunneling Microscope, which zooms in to view surfaces at the atomic level, in 1981.

From Salon • Dec. 15, 2023

Arnold Dix, the Australia-based president of the International Tunneling and Underground Space Association, who is among experts being consulted by rescuers, said it was essential to take time and care.

From Reuters • Nov. 17, 2023

Tunneling occurred only about one in every 100 billion collisions between hydrogen and a deuterium ion, which agrees very well with Kokoouline and Yuen’s theoretical calculations.

From Scientific American • Apr. 4, 2023

Tunneling through mountains, building roads in rocky places, taking up tree stumps, and preparing hard ground for crops would all be made very much more difficult.

From Common Science by Ritchie, John W. (John Woodside)