Two owner-builders priced out of Melbourne built a 2,286-square-foot Earthship in Cygnet, Tasmania, with rammed earth walls, bottle bricks and no fireplace, and they say their heating bills are $0
Kate and Matt, two owner-builders priced out of Melbourne, have built a 2,286-square-foot (212.4-square-meter) Earthship in Cygnet, in southern Tasmania, with rammed earth walls, a glass sunroom full of plants and no fireplace. Its architect says the two-bedroom,…
In Japan, researchers led by Tohoku University used an inexpensive blue pigment to turn carbon dioxide into methane with 79.5% Faradaic efficiency, and methane selectivity stayed above 60% for about 80 hours
An inexpensive blue pigment has helped researchers in Japan turn carbon dioxide into methane in a single electrochemical process. The laboratory advance…
At 8.2 feet on Oct. 13, the Lake Constance water level in Konstanz, Germany, fell below a 1947 record for the date, and it now sits 10 inches under last winter’s low
The Lake Constance water level at the Konstanz gauge averaged 8.2 feet (250 centimeters) on Oct. 13, the lowest for that date…
A simulated AMOC collapse in an unreviewed preprint cut wheat, corn and rice harvests in Germany and Ukraine by roughly 16 to 19 percent, and cereal prices could climb up to 40 percent in the worst case
An unreviewed preprint from the Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED) finds that a simulated AMOC collapse would cut calories…
A landslide in Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord sent a tsunami 1,578 feet up the opposite wall, and a Science study found small tremors striking every 30 to 60 seconds in the hours before the collapse
On August 10, 2025, more than 64 million cubic meters (about 2.3 billion cubic feet) of rock fell into Tracy Arm fjord…
A company won a mining license for a magnesium deposit it estimates at more than 50 million metric tons near Rășinari, in Romania’s Sibiu County, and the EU gets 97 percent of its magnesium from China
Order 529 of Sept. 3, 2026, gave Mineral Proiect Invest S.A. (MPI) mining concession license 29.694/2026 at Valea Dobra, a magnesium deposit…
Leap seconds will end on May 20, 2027, under a rule the General Conference on Weights and Measures adopted in Versailles, France, and a new study finds Earth’s solid surface turning slightly rounder as polar ground rises
The General Conference on Weights and Measures, meeting in Versailles, west of Paris, adopted a rule on Oct. 15, 2026, that ends…
Two Perth scientists tested plastic pipes buried in mine waste rock as dens for endangered northern quolls, and the animals went in and out, with average highs of 92.5 degrees Fahrenheit, similar to natural dens
Two Perth scientists buried plastic pipes in mine waste rock in Western Australia as dens for endangered northern quolls, and cameras and…
Between Saturn and Uranus, James Webb Space Telescope data show Chariklo’s inner ring about 50% more opaque than in earlier observations, and its outer ring’s signal about 60% weaker than in 2017
A small world beyond Saturn is giving astronomers a fresh puzzle about planetary rings. Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show…
Archaeologists mapping a Qin royal cemetery beside Xi’an’s airport in China recovered 258 finds around a 656-foot tomb, and one researcher argues it belongs to Queen Dowager Huayang, the first emperor’s adoptive grandmother
Archaeologists have mapped a Qin royal cemetery beside Xi'an Xianyang International Airport in China, recovering 258 objects or sets of objects around…
In Sydney’s Homebush Bay, the SS Ayrfield, a 1911 collier abandoned at a scrapyard, has become a floating forest of mangroves, and the bay it sits in needed a dioxin cleanup that ran until 2010
The SS Ayrfield, a 1911 collier abandoned at a scrapyard in Sydney's Homebush Bay has become a floating forest, with mangrove trees…
In Suffolk, England, five moon bears rescued from a South Korean bile farm after more than 20 years in cages finished a 5,500-mile journey, and 219 bears were still on Korean farms in June
Five moon bears that spent more than 20 years in cages on a South Korean bear bile farm landed in the UK…
In South Australia’s opal town of Coober Pedy, about half of residents live in underground homes that stay between 66 and 77°F, and SA Water takes over the town’s aging water system before 2027
In Coober Pedy, an opal town in the South Australian desert, about half of the residents live in underground homes that stay…
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Scientists working off Australia's Cocos (Keeling) Islands have described a genus of deep-sea spaghetti worms new to science, named Terebellosuctoria for the…
A landslide in Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord sent a tsunami 1,578 feet up the opposite wall, and a Science study found small tremors striking every 30 to 60 seconds in the hours before the collapse
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Between Saturn and Uranus, James Webb Space Telescope data show Chariklo’s inner ring about 50% more opaque than in earlier observations, and its outer ring’s signal about 60% weaker than in 2017
A small world beyond Saturn is giving astronomers a fresh puzzle about planetary rings. Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show…
Archaeologists mapping a Qin royal cemetery beside Xi’an’s airport in China recovered 258 finds around a 656-foot tomb, and one researcher argues it belongs to Queen Dowager Huayang, the first emperor’s adoptive grandmother
Archaeologists have mapped a Qin royal cemetery beside Xi'an Xianyang International Airport in China, recovering 258 objects or sets of objects around…
Outside the International Space Station, NASA’s Anil Menon and Canada’s Joshua Kutryk will install the last two roll-out solar arrays on Oct. 29 and Nov. 5, lifting station power to about 215 kilowatts
On Oct. 29 and Nov. 5, astronauts Anil Menon and Joshua Kutryk will step outside the International Space Station to install the…
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Combustibles fósiles: la Eurocámara pide a la UE fechas para su abandono
El Parlamento Europeo ha reclamado recientemente un calendario en que se explicite cómo y cuándo se van a abandonar los …
Centros de datos en España: el Gobierno prepara un decreto para evitar que encarezcan la luz
Los centros de datos en España y el crecimiento de la infraestructura digital plantean una pregunta: ¿quién asume su demanda …
Custodia del territorio: Cádiz reivindica sus salinas como refugios de biodiversidad
Las salinas La Esperanza en Cádiz acogen el primer Día de la Custodia del Territorio con el fin de dar …
Una pitón birmana hembra de 4,9 metros y 67,1 kilos ha vuelto a los Everglades con un transmisor de radio y el USGS prueba drones para seguir su señal desde el aire
Una pitón birmana hembra de 4,9 metros y 67,1 kilos ha vuelto a los Everglades, en el sur de Florida, …
Lince ibérico en Portugal: cinco millones para consolidar su recuperación tras alcanzar 394 ejemplares
El lince ibérico en Portugal ya no es una leyenda, ahora es una realidad y, para mantenerla, el gobierno ha …
Arrecifes de coral: el 96 % de los ecosistemas evaluados afronta un riesgo extremo de colapso para 2075
La UICN ha calificado a los grandes sistemas de arrecifes de coral en peligro crítico, incluida la Gran Barrera australiana. …
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Two owner-builders priced out of Melbourne built a 2,286-square-foot Earthship in Cygnet, Tasmania, with rammed earth walls, bottle bricks and no fireplace, and they say their heating bills are $0
Kate and Matt, two owner-builders priced out of Melbourne, have built a 2,286-square-foot (212.4-square-meter) Earthship in Cygnet, in southern Tasmania, with rammed…
In 50 homes around Raleigh, North Carolina, researchers found spiders in every single house, and tidiness made no significant difference to the variety of bugs, so a spider does not mean your house is dirty
A spider on a freshly cleaned bathroom wall can make you wonder what you missed. But finding one does not, by itself,…
42 satellite surveys show 11.3 trillion metric tons of polar ice loss across Greenland and Antarctica since 1979, and 84 percent of it came from glaciers flowing faster into the ocean rather than surface melt
Greenland and Antarctica lost 11.3 trillion metric tons of ice between 1979 and 2023, roughly 12.5 trillion US tons, according to a…
In Romania’s Brașov County, brown bears number about 1,329 by a national genetic estimate, the highest density of any county, and one bear relocated from Poiana Brașov was back within 3 days
Romania's national genetic estimate puts the country's brown bears at 10,657 to 12,787, and Brașov County has the highest density of any…
More than 40 Magellanic penguins born in captivity arrived by court order from Mar del Plata at a river island in Argentina’s Río Negro province, and at first they had not explored even a third of their new home
More than 40 Magellanic penguins born in captivity have moved from Mar del Plata to Bubalcó, a wildlife refuge on a river…
At 8.2 feet on Oct. 13, the Lake Constance water level in Konstanz, Germany, fell below a 1947 record for the date, and it now sits 10 inches under last winter’s low
The Lake Constance water level at the Konstanz gauge averaged 8.2 feet (250 centimeters) on Oct. 13, the lowest for that date…
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At Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, a prototype cooling system uses heat instead of an electric motor to stretch an ultrathin metal film, and it reached a 4°C temperature difference across the device
Researchers in Germany and Japan have demonstrated a cooling system in which heat supplies the force normally provided by an electric motor.…
In Corvallis, Oregon, chemists separated zirconium and hafnium in water with choline, a common food additive, reaching a separation factor of 33, and the solvent method used at two U.S. plants scores 6 to 7
Chemists at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon, have patented a way to separate zirconium and hafnium in water, with no organic…
Princeton physicists reworked a 70-year-old fusion rule and calculated heating plasma first is the lowest-energy path to fusion ignition, while a trace of tungsten can roughly double the pressure
In 2015, Luis Delgado-Aparicio, a physicist at a U.S. Department of Energy fusion laboratory in New Jersey, won a five-year, $2.6 million…
When he was 15, he wanted to impress his mother with a kite, and that crazy idea ended up leading him to design a home turbine; what’s more, he has already sold his entire projected production for 2027
In a video KiteX posted in June 2026, founder Andreas Okholm stands in a field next to a slim mast held up…
Fervo’s Cape Station in Utah began commercial operation a day early at 33 MW, a first for utility-scale enhanced geothermal plants, and its co-founder traces the idea to overheating drill motors
Tim Latimer's road to Cape Station, the enhanced geothermal plant his company now runs in Utah, started with a maintenance problem. In…
The Tennessee Valley Authority has an NRC permit to build the first U.S. commercial small modular reactor, a 300-megawatt unit at Clinch River in Oak Ridge, and it still needs a separate operating license
The signing took place on a Tuesday in TVA's Knoxville office, with Gov. Bill Lee, Sen. Marsha Blackburn and Reps. Chuck Fleischmann…
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Over the Atlantic in 2001, Air Transat Flight 236 lost power to both engines and glided about 75 miles for roughly 19 minutes, and all 306 people aboard survived a hard landing in the Azores
An airliner running out of fuel over the ocean sounds like a situation with no way out. Yet on August 24, 2001,…
New Mexico’s Sceye flew a solar-powered stratospheric airship about 18,600 miles to Japan and back in about a month and used it to beam calls and video to ordinary smartphones from more than 54,000 feet
On the morning of August 9, 2026, a silver stratospheric airship rose out of the New Mexico desert and set off across…
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
Four curb chargers on Klosterstrasse and Dürener Strasse in Cologne logged 2,829 validated charging sessions in 329 days and were available more…
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
Pioneering Spirit, the world’s largest construction vessel, passed under Denmark’s Great Belt Bridge on Tuesday, September 29, on its way to install…
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
Andrea Lazzaro, head of business development at the marine engine designer WinGD, told Ship & Bunker in an interview published in March…
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
By August 7, 2026, the Cristo Redentor pass between Mendoza and Santiago had been closed by snow for 24 days, with more…
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Hasta 45.000 metros cúbicos de lluvia retiene el parque inundable La Marjal de Alicante, que gana el voto popular de los New European Bauhaus 2026 y costó casi cuatro veces menos que un tanque subterráneo
El parque inundable La Marjal, en la Playa de San Juan de Alicante, ganó el voto del público de los …
Una barrera nueva en Big Bonito Creek, en Arizona, protege casi 35 kilómetros de arroyo para la trucha apache, y ese tramo es cerca del 18 % del hábitat de recuperación de la especie
Una barrera nueva en Big Bonito Creek, un arroyo de las Montañas Blancas de Arizona, protege desde 2025 casi 22 …
Endesa construye en una finca de Santanyí, en Mallorca, su mayor parque solar en Baleares, de 23,95 MW y con ovejas entre los paneles, y los vecinos podrán prestar al proyecto 2,7 millones desde 2027
Endesa ha empezado las obras de Goleta-Xalana, su mayor parque solar en Baleares, en la finca de Son Danús Nou, …
Tres licaones machos dejaron su manada en el Parque Nacional de Kafue, en Zambia, en 2025 y recorrieron 4126 km, el récord de la especie, hasta instalarse sobre la Gran Escarpa del Rift
Tres licaones machos de la manada Mayukuyuku, en el Parque Nacional de Kafue (Zambia), dejaron su grupo en 2025 y, …
Zaragoza será Capital Verde Europea 2028 tras ganar la final a Aalborg, Oporto, Košice y Bielsko-Biała, con un premio de 600.000 euros, y Benidorm compartirá la Hoja Verde con Estarreja y se llevará 200.000 euros
Zaragoza será Capital Verde Europea 2028. La Comisión Europea le concedió el título en la noche del 8 de octubre, …
Un imán levitado de 0,356 miligramos buscó en Leiden, en los Países Bajos, materia oscura ultrapesada unos 10 millones de veces más pesada que en otros experimentos de levitación y el estudio, aún sin revisar, deja ocho señales sin confirmar
Físicos de la Universidad de Leiden, en los Países Bajos, y de la Universidad Rice, en Houston, usaron un imán …
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In Japan, researchers led by Tohoku University used an inexpensive blue pigment to turn carbon dioxide into methane with 79.5% Faradaic efficiency, and methane selectivity stayed above 60% for about 80 hours
An inexpensive blue pigment has helped researchers in Japan turn carbon dioxide into methane in a single electrochemical process. The laboratory advance…
A company won a mining license for a magnesium deposit it estimates at more than 50 million metric tons near Rășinari, in Romania’s Sibiu County, and the EU gets 97 percent of its magnesium from China
Order 529 of Sept. 3, 2026, gave Mineral Proiect Invest S.A. (MPI) mining concession license 29.694/2026 at Valea Dobra, a magnesium deposit…
At Japan’s car parts shipping sites, workers read about 10 barcodes per product until DENSO’s Masahiro Hara created the QR code in 1994, and it now tracks glass eels for an expected 10,000 traders a year
Masahiro Hara, a barcode engineer at DENSO, created the QR code in 1994 after watching workers at car parts shipping sites in…
Pegasus, a 16-foot-wide drone built by three Australian companies, flew for almost 2 hours over Queensland on a single lithium-sulfur battery pack, and its makers now expect missions of 5 to 8 hours
On its longest test flight, over Queensland in Australia, a drone called Pegasus ran on one lithium-sulfur battery pack for almost 2…
Louisiana’s Lake Peigneur emptied into a salt mine within hours in 1980 while a Texaco rig drilled on the lake, and about 50 miners escaped, but federal investigators never pinned down the exact cause
Leonce Viator Jr. had taken his nephew out to their favorite fishing hole on Lake Peigneur early on November 20, 1980. "I…
GM and LG will mass-produce LMR battery cells in Tennessee and add 500 jobs
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee and his deputy governor, Stuart McWhorter, announced on Tuesday, September 29, 2026, that the battery plant in Spring…
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Two amateur archaeologists found 141 Roman gold coins in a field in Luxembourg, and beneath them, they also discovered a fortification that had been buried for more than 1,600 years
Two amateur archaeologists prospecting a plowed field near Holzthum, a village in northern Luxembourg, set off a find that ended with 141…
In 1988, a treasure hunter discovered a ship loaded with gold that had been sunk since 1857, but he ended up spending more than 11 years behind bars over 500 coins whose whereabouts remain a mystery
Finding a sunken fortune sounds like the end of a treasure hunt. For American engineer Tommy Thompson, it became the beginning of…
A miner pushing dirt with a bulldozer near Ruby, Alaska, in 1998 spotted something unusual, and it turned out to be the state’s largest gold nugget, a 294.1-troy-ounce mass that later sold for $750,000
In 1998, Barry Clay was pushing dirt with a bulldozer on a placer claim along Swift Creek, near the Yukon River village…
Someone laying a patio in northern Denmark dug up the country’s largest known Viking silver hoard, 18.5 kilograms of bracelets, bars and coins, and one bar is scratched with a runic word experts have never seen before
"It was only supposed to be a couple of hours of hard yard work," the finder said, translated from Danish. The job…
A Wyoming coal mine bought for $2 million in 2011 holds what Ramaco calls the largest unconventional rare earth deposit in the US, and a new engineering report has pushed first production back to 2031
Randall Atkins went to Wyoming looking for coal. In 2011 his company bought the defunct Brook Mine near Sheridan for $2 million,…
A metal detectorist near Cologne stopped digging after 15 silver coins and called archaeologists, who then found 934 Roman denarii, the largest hoard from Hadrian’s time ever found in Germany
Oliver Riedl had already pulled 15 silver coins out of a field near Wesseling, south of Cologne, and his metal detector was…
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At a fire lab at Brazil’s Unisinos University, Tetra Pak carton strips carried flames nearly 6 inches in 14 seconds, and the 17.6°F they took off a test roof’s surface shrank indoors
At a fire lab at Brazil's Unisinos University, strips of Tetra Pak carton, the material promoted online as a cheap way to…
Kelvin Doe built a battery, a generator and an FM radio station from Freetown’s trash and reached MIT at 15, and 14 years later he is building a free youth makerspace in Toronto
Kelvin Doe grew up in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and as a teenager he dug through the garbage for parts to build his…
Juan, 29, chose an olive farm near Tarragona, Spain, over a Barcelona apartment costing more than $1,100 a month, and now he sells organic olive oil and grows 80 percent of his vegetables
Juan keeps his organic olive oil in a little stone hut at the mouth of a tunnel in a Catalan hillside. "We…
A Burkina Faso farmer filled zaï pits with manure and grew a nearly 100-acre forest on abandoned land, and a study found termite tunnels made rain soak in 2 to 4 times faster
The sun was going down on another scorching day when journalist Mark Hertsgaard found Yacouba Sawadogo walking through his woods with a…
Naples Botanical Garden shows how an empty 2-liter soda bottle becomes a self-watering planter with a cotton wick, and a University of Kentucky extension guide says capillary action can lift water about 4 inches
"Have you ever wanted to grow herbs and vegetables, but you're worried about remembering to water them? There is a solution for…
A village of a few dozen winter residents on Stromboli reopened what Italian media call the smallest school in Europe for one 6-year-old girl, and her mother says the alternative was splitting the family
On September 10, 2026, a 6-year-old named Aysha went off to her first day of school in Ginostra, a tiny hamlet on…
