Once destined for Mars, a prototype drill has a new mission: To bore into rocks buried deep beneath the ice in Antarctica. In early January, researchers from the University of Glasgow in Scotland took ...

One final difference: Hammer drills and standard drills use a chuck that can accept a variety of bits, but an impact driver ...

The Boring Company’s $52.5 million underground people-mover drill is tunnelling through dirt beneath the Las Vegas Convention Center’s Orange parking lot, north of Desert Inn Road. The drill is ...

The Boring Company’s tunnel-making, dirt-clearing drill reached the end of the line for the second time in three months Thursday, making a pathway for Elon Musk’s untested underground people-mover. A ...

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Elon Musk announced on Friday that drilling on the first Boring Company tunnel was complete, and shared footage of the enormous drill emerging at the bottom of a huge pit. Musk has previously said the ...

The process of auger boring is one of the safest means of any underground utility installations, keeping any roadway or waterbody fully operational all throughout the project. Crew members from Iowa ...

To find out how two new drill bits, both designed with self-feeding features that essentially pull the bit through the hole as it spins, stack up against a standard, old-fashioned spade bit, we ...

A quick-thinking doctor in rural Australia used a household power drill to bore a hole into the skull of a boy with a severe head injury, saving his life. Nicholas Rossi suffered severe bleeding on ...

Sometimes the easiest way to get through a problem is to go under it. Whether installing landscape features, fencing or cable, obstacles like sidewalks and driveways can present a challenge to simple ...

Such a tiny fraction of the massive Saturn V rocket returned home from each Apollo Moon mission that it's surprising what has survived over the years. One example is an odd artifact: the chuck used by ...