Mobility

Cologne tested a curb charger that hides a 22-kilowatt EV socket inside a standard-size curbstone, logging 2,829 charging sessions with over 99 percent availability, and installation still cost about the same as a charging post

Cologne tested a curb charger that hides a 22-kilowatt EV socket inside a standard-size curbstone, logging 2,829 charging sessions with over 99 percent availability, and installation still cost about the same as a charging post

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October 17, 2026 at 5:01 PM

Four curb chargers on Klosterstrasse and Dürener Strasse in Cologne logged 2,829 validated charging sessions…

The world’s largest construction vessel had to take on ballast water and sink lower to fit under the 213-foot clearance of Denmark’s Great Belt Bridge on its way to a Baltic wind farm

The world’s largest construction vessel had to take on ballast water and sink lower to fit under the 213-foot clearance of Denmark’s Great Belt Bridge on its way to a Baltic wind farm

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October 17, 2026 at 3:02 PM

Pioneering Spirit, the world’s largest construction vessel, passed under Denmark’s Great Belt Bridge on Tuesday,…

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…

Science

A giant isopod brought from Puerto Rico in the 1980s sat in a University of Tübingen collection under the wrong name for decades, and a closer look shows the 12.7-inch crustacean is a new species

A giant isopod brought from Puerto Rico in the 1980s sat in a University of Tübingen collection under the wrong name for decades, and a closer look shows the 12.7-inch crustacean is a new species

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October 18, 2026 at 1:46 PM

A dried giant isopod brought from Puerto Rico in the late 1980s, and filed for…

Awunbarna in western Arnhem Land holds 20 of the 52 known recent Rainbow Serpent rock paintings, one 20 feet long, and archaeologists argue artists painted them big as colonization upended their world

Awunbarna in western Arnhem Land holds 20 of the 52 known recent Rainbow Serpent rock paintings, one 20 feet long, and archaeologists argue artists painted them big as colonization upended their world

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October 18, 2026 at 12:31 PM

On the ceiling of a rock shelter at Awunbarna, in Australia’s Northern Territory, a white…

University of Kentucky students designed 12 small capsules to test experimental heat shields, including a 3D-printed one, and they left the ISS inside a cargo ship full of trash set to burn up on reentry

University of Kentucky students designed 12 small capsules to test experimental heat shields, including a 3D-printed one, and they left the ISS inside a cargo ship full of trash set to burn up on reentry

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October 18, 2026 at 11:31 AM

On Oct. 7, a dome-shaped capsule with a University of Kentucky sticker floated among stowed…

A toothless hell chicken dinosaur from Montana’s Hell Creek Formation weighed about 26 pounds, and scientists think its jaw slid back and forth to mash soft fruit like a parrot’s

A toothless hell chicken dinosaur from Montana’s Hell Creek Formation weighed about 26 pounds, and scientists think its jaw slid back and forth to mash soft fruit like a parrot’s

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October 18, 2026 at 7:31 AM

A toothless dinosaur dug up in July 2011 in the Hell Creek Formation of Garfield…

Archaeologists packing up a Roman-era cemetery near Wrocław, Poland, found a 5,000-year-old grave with a necklace of 42 drilled teeth and two extra skulls, and researchers want to know whether the heads were cut off

Archaeologists packing up a Roman-era cemetery near Wrocław, Poland, found a 5,000-year-old grave with a necklace of 42 drilled teeth and two extra skulls, and researchers want to know whether the heads were cut off

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October 18, 2026 at 6:31 AM

Archaeologists digging a late Roman cemetery outside Wrocław, Poland, had started tidying up the site…

On a ridge above Alaska’s Tanana River, archaeologists recovered more than 80,000 objects from a 13,800-year-old Ice Age base camp, and its diamond-shaped stone points match ones found in Siberia

On a ridge above Alaska’s Tanana River, archaeologists recovered more than 80,000 objects from a 13,800-year-old Ice Age base camp, and its diamond-shaped stone points match ones found in Siberia

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October 17, 2026 at 8:01 PM

Inside what its excavators describe as the earliest potential habitation structure in North America, archaeologists…