The 11 Greatest Engineering Innovations Of 2016

These are the Best Of What's New

By Shannon Palus and Jenn Schwartz

Published Oct 19, 2016 5:00 PM EDT

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

Zayed National Museum — Courtesy Zayed National Museum

roller coaster — Courtesy Mack Rides

shanghai tower — Andy Brandl/Getty Images

mushrooms — Shutterstock

MULTI Elevator — Courtesy ThyssenKrupp

CarbFix — Courtesty Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

black holes — Courtesy MIT

Traffic-Straddling bus — Teb Technology

bio-robotic sting ray — Courtesy of Karaghen Hudson and Michael Rosnach

skyslide — OUE Skyspace

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