The 11 Greatest Engineering Innovations Of 2016

These are the Best Of What's New

By Shannon Palus and Jenn Schwartz

Posted on Oct 19, 2016 5:00 PM EDT

Alptransit Gotthard Base Tunnel — Alptransit Gotthard Base Tunnel Philip Schmidli/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Zayed National Museum

roller coaster

shanghai tower

mushrooms

MULTI Elevator

CarbFix

black holes

Traffic-Straddling bus

bio-robotic sting ray

skyslide

Read about the other Best of What’s New winners from the November/December 2016 issue of Popular Science.