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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 mud-banks under water, with streams of water or streams of compressed air, struck me as decidedly a novelty.

From Careers of Danger and Daring by Moffett, Cleveland