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Recent Examples of crawlwayTo limit the amount of dust kicked up by the crawler—after all, dust is the enemy to any machine—a truck sprays water over the crawlway.—Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 17 Mar. 2022
Its features include a 1,200-square-foot cabana, which connects to the mansion via a private underground tunnel, and a 150-foot dock extending from the lawn.
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Megan Vaz,
Sun Sentinel,
27 Mar. 2026
These include visits to short stretches of tunnels open to the public (although those prone to claustrophobia will probably want to stay above ground).
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Tamara Hinson,
Condé Nast Traveler,
27 Mar. 2026
This research can enable highly functional, autonomous, tiny aerial robots for critical humanitarian applications, such as search and rescue, combating poaching and cave exploration.
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Nitin Sanket,
The Conversation,
27 Mar. 2026
The discovery of a canine jawbone in a cave in southern England suggests that dogs were domesticated 5,000 years earlier than previously thought.
Decades of static storage lead to the unavoidable accumulation of heavy waxes, dense inorganic sediments, and highly corrosive hydrogen sulfide produced by sulfate-reducing bacteria — turning the bottom of the cavern into a chemical nightmare.
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Siddharth Misra,
Fortune,
28 Mar. 2026
Few caverns possess the same cache of fossils as Bender’s Cave, however.
They had even been evicted from their home, and counted coins to take the subway.
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Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
25 Mar. 2026
An elderly Air Force veteran who was shoved onto the tracks at a Manhattan subway station in a random attack has died of his injuries — and the alleged killer now faces murder charges.