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Maersk fueled the 9,016-TEU Tangier Maersk with 100 percent corn ethanol in America’s first ethanol bunkering of a deep-sea container ship, as a national lab says today’s methanol-ready fleet could burn 2 billion gallons yearly
The Agua Negra tunnel plan calls for a custom machine to bore twin 8.6-mile tubes under the Andes, but the $1.5 billion Argentina-Chile project has been stuck since the IDB approved it in 2017

The Agua Negra tunnel plan calls for a custom machine to bore twin 8.6-mile tubes under the Andes, but the $1.5 billion Argentina-Chile project has been stuck since the IDB approved it in 2017

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October 12, 2026 at 6:29 PM

By August 7, 2026, the Cristo Redentor pass between Mendoza and Santiago had been closed…

Michigan State engineer John Dorgan ate gummy bears made with an ingredient recovered from a resin designed for wind turbine blades, and the same material can also become plexiglass, diaper polymer and new turbine panels

Michigan State engineer John Dorgan ate gummy bears made with an ingredient recovered from a resin designed for wind turbine blades, and the same material can also become plexiglass, diaper polymer and new turbine panels

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October 11, 2026 at 12:31 PM

John Dorgan says he ate the gummy bears himself. “We recovered food-grade potassium lactate and…

Airbus A350F freighter completes its maiden flight and begins 400-hour test campaign

Airbus A350F freighter completes its maiden flight and begins 400-hour test campaign

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October 10, 2026 at 8:47 AM

Dozens of buyers, financiers and suppliers stood beside the runway in Toulouse, France, on September…

Singapore built 227 concrete caissons, each about 10 stories tall, for a 9.1-kilometer seawall at Tuas Port, and its operator’s own report shows emissions rose 7% in 2025 as more cargo moved to the electric terminal

Singapore built 227 concrete caissons, each about 10 stories tall, for a 9.1-kilometer seawall at Tuas Port, and its operator’s own report shows emissions rose 7% in 2025 as more cargo moved to the electric terminal

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October 4, 2026 at 5:02 PM

Niam Chiang Meng, then chairman of Singapore’s Maritime and Port Authority (MPA), described the first…

A fully electric tractor that recharges from its own solar roof goes on sale in North America, runs about five hours per charge and could save small farms around $15,000 over five years

A fully electric tractor that recharges from its own solar roof goes on sale in North America, runs about five hours per charge and could save small farms around $15,000 over five years

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October 1, 2026 at 8:16 AM

Anyone who has spent a morning next to a diesel tractor knows the routine. The…

Science

A farmer in China’s Liaoning province found a four-winged dinosaur whose lineage evolved 57 bird-like traits in a different order than birds did, a sign its flight gear was built independently

A farmer in China’s Liaoning province found a four-winged dinosaur whose lineage evolved 57 bird-like traits in a different order than birds did, a sign its flight gear was built independently

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October 14, 2026 at 6:31 AM

“The specimen was discovered by a local farmer near Lamadong Town (Jianchang County, western Liaoning,…

Conservators restoring a church pulpit in Ciachcin, Poland, found a parchment the parish priest hid inside it in 1884, and it names the gilders, carpenters and apprentices history usually forgets

Conservators restoring a church pulpit in Ciachcin, Poland, found a parchment the parish priest hid inside it in 1884, and it names the gilders, carpenters and apprentices history usually forgets

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October 13, 2026 at 6:29 PM

Conservators finishing work on a church pulpit in Ciachcin, a village near Płock in central…

Dragomirna Monastery in Romania has a Greek decree over 2,000 years old set into its porch floor honoring an architect from Byzantion, and scholars have long argued over which Black Sea city issued it

Dragomirna Monastery in Romania has a Greek decree over 2,000 years old set into its porch floor honoring an architect from Byzantion, and scholars have long argued over which Black Sea city issued it

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October 13, 2026 at 3:02 PM

At Dragomirna Monastery, near Suceava in northeastern Romania, a marble slab lies in the porch…

NASA’s Perseverance rover studied more than 185 rock targets along the inner rim of Jezero Crater and found they met water at least three times, the last as hot fluid that left fluorite veins

NASA’s Perseverance rover studied more than 185 rock targets along the inner rim of Jezero Crater and found they met water at least three times, the last as hot fluid that left fluorite veins

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October 13, 2026 at 8:44 AM

When NASA’s Perseverance rover reached the inner edge of Jezero Crater in September 2023, the…

University of New Mexico scientists turned up to 70 percent of the iron oxide in dry, melted basalt into iron and water within 3 hours, a hint that Earth’s water may have formed this way
Montenegro’s Lake Piva dropped about 98 feet in a drought, exposing houses and a mill from old Plužine, a town flooded 51 years ago, and its chronicler says he still dreams of his drowned home