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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

In a Danish burial mound in 1891, archaeologists found a 3,400-year-old Bronze Age folding chair, the only completely preserved chair from Bronze Age Europe, and its finder wondered if it was a table

In a Danish burial mound in 1891, archaeologists found a 3,400-year-old Bronze Age folding chair, the only completely preserved chair from Bronze Age Europe, and its finder wondered if it was a table

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October 15, 2026 at 4:58 PM

In July 1891, in the rain, archaeologist Vilhelm Boye opened a plow-damaged burial mound near…

UN members voted 164 to 1 to encourage the Equal Earth projection, where Brazil looks nearly four times the size of Greenland, a shift Latin American geographers say gives their region new visibility
Uceda, a small town in central Spain, wants volunteers to excavate its hilltop castle and a buried 30-acre Islamic medina, and the archaeologists running the dig offer six weekly spots with breakfast until October 20
Scientists studying a 2,000-year-old Mithridates warship sunk off Phanagoria in the Black Sea tested 22 nails and a 34-pound bronze ram, and found builders paid for copper over cheaper iron to keep it sailing
Divers off Turkey’s Kekova Island found a shipwreck that archaeologists date to 4,400 to 4,700 years ago and call the oldest known shipwreck, and some of its jars still hold a glossy residue

Divers off Turkey’s Kekova Island found a shipwreck that archaeologists date to 4,400 to 4,700 years ago and call the oldest known shipwreck, and some of its jars still hold a glossy residue

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October 14, 2026 at 8:23 AM

Off Kekova Island in southern Turkey, about 100 feet (30 meters) down, divers have been…

The SS Richard Montgomery, a U.S. Liberty ship that sank off Sheerness in 1944, still holds about 1,400 tons of explosives, and salvors have cut away the three masts that marked it for 82 years

The SS Richard Montgomery, a U.S. Liberty ship that sank off Sheerness in 1944, still holds about 1,400 tons of explosives, and salvors have cut away the three masts that marked it for 82 years

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October 14, 2026 at 8:03 AM

On August 20, 1944, the SS Richard Montgomery dragged its anchor in the Thames Estuary…