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More than 120 years after Marie Curie’s experiments, some of her laboratory notebooks remain radioactively contaminated, but France’s national library says visitors behind glass receive essentially no additional radiation while the originals require strict handling controls because radium-226 has a half-life of about 1,600 years
Published On: September 27, 2026 at 2:57 PM
At a 110-turbine Wyoming wind farm, AI-powered cameras can spot approaching eagles and automatically slow individual turbines, with one study estimating an 82% drop in fatalities, although later research found substantial uncertainty around exactly how much the system reduces deaths
Published On: September 27, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Nine flamingo chicks at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo are revealing one of bird parenting’s strangest sacrifices: both mothers and fathers produce nutrient-rich red “crop milk” that can drain so much pigment from their bodies that the famously pink adults temporarily fade to nearly white
Published On: September 27, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Wind turbine blades are notoriously difficult to recycle, but Carbon Rivers demonstrated recovered glass fiber with 99.9% purity that could return to manufacturing, while recent cleanup concerns in Tennessee show that successful recycling depends on safely processing and actually selling the recovered material, not simply shredding old blades
Published On: September 27, 2026 at 8:46 AM
Americans throw away an estimated 50,000 mattresses every day even though more than 75% of their components can be reused, and Oregon’s first full year of statewide collection kept 134,000 mattresses and box springs out of the waste stream while recovering 5.9 million pounds of material
Published On: September 27, 2026 at 6:29 AM
Anduril’s three-ton Dive-LD underwater robot lets seawater flood through its outer body to survive depths of 6,000 meters, can operate for up to 10 days and is now being developed for tasks ranging from military missions to inspecting offshore wind cables on the seafloor
Published On: September 26, 2026 at 3:02 PM
