Kevin Montien
Westinghouse wants up to 91 nuclear units across several countries, but the real bottleneck may begin inside U.S. licensing offices
A dog named Never crossed onto a neighbor’s balcony, and one unexpected visit turned into a daily friendship neither saw coming
Three harbor seals followed turbine rows in the North Sea, turning offshore wind foundations into hunting stops scientists did not expect
An Ohio nuclear plant left 850 acres untouched for safety, and a threatened spotted turtle found the wetland it needed
Norway lowered a 22-ton desalination pod 1,640 feet below the sea, where natural ocean pressure helps it produce up to one million liters of drinking water a day while using far less energy than conventional plants
A river in the Peruvian Amazon runs hot enough to reach 86°C with no volcano nearby, and researchers found that every 1°C increase along its banks was linked to an 11% drop in local tree diversity
A thorny wild pear punctured a tractor tire, and the real surprise is how America’s once-favorite “sterile” street tree escaped
NASA’s radar searched for Mars’ buried lake beneath the south pole, and the weak echo has made the water mystery harder to believe
One of the world’s rarest primates survives among the limestone cliffs of northern Vietnam, where the remaining Delacour’s langurs are hanging on in fragmented habitat despite looking almost impossible to miss
A 2,000-year-old gold ring found beside human remains in Thailand carries an inscription that may reveal an ancient trade route
Archaeologists have uncovered two tiny bird figurines carved from mammoth ivory in Hohle Fels Cave in southwestern Germany dating back about 40,000 years
Firefighters answered a call about ducklings trapped in trash and expected another routine animal rescue, but by the time the tiny birds were safe the crew had made an unexpected new friend
A Tennessee solar farm is letting cows graze beneath moving panels, and the experiment could change what happens to farmland under clean energy
Most people struggle to hold their breath underwater for two minutes, but the Bajau can spend up to five hours a day diving and working beneath the sea after generations of life built around the ocean
Engineers built a gigantic machine to work beneath Chesapeake waters where ordinary construction equipment cannot reach, and the scale of what it must move shows why some infrastructure projects require machines almost as impressive as the structures themselves
Earth may have spent roughly a billion years with days stuck near 19 hours long, and scientists think an extraordinary tug-of-war involving the Moon and the atmosphere temporarily stopped the planet’s rotation from slowing normally
A surfer spotted a rabbit living inside a hanging cage and initially thought he could keep walking, but one closer look at the animal changed what happened next and turned an ordinary day into a rescue








