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 than 99…
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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…
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,…
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 &…
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…
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
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
Dozens of buyers, financiers and suppliers stood beside the runway in Toulouse, France, on September…
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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,…
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On Santorini, a Bronze Age toilet about 3,600 years old survives on the upper floor of Akrotiri’s West House, and its clay pipes once carried waste to a sewer beneath the town’s streets
Room 4a of the West House at Akrotiri, on the Greek island of Santorini, is…
Around Antarctica, 1,712 zircon crystals drilled from the seafloor point to Himalayan-style mountains now buried under the ice, and two geologists say their erosion may have helped set the stage for the Cambrian explosion
Under the ice of Antarctica lie the roots of Himalayan-style mountains, according to two geologists…
London’s Natural History Museum kept a skull fragment bought in 1924 in a drawer for nearly 100 years, and it turns out to be a new dinosaur species, Europe’s first known megaraptoran
Sometime before 1924, an amateur fossil hunter named Reginald Walter Hooley picked up a worn…
NASA wants to send a spacecraft equipped with a nuclear reactor and three helicopters to Mars to search for underground water, while also preparing future landing sites for humans
NASA plans to launch Space Reactor-1 Freedom, a nuclear-powered spacecraft, in December 2028. Within 48…
On November 20, 2025, a Harvard student predicted an extreme cold snap for December, and weeks later, it struck precisely where one of the world’s best models had failed to predict it
On November 20, 2025, a forecasting system called MicroDuet sent a week-four temperature outlook to…
ESA’s Hera spacecraft, flying at more than 26,800 mph, was scheduled to fire three thrusters for 93 minutes to brake toward the asteroids NASA’s DART hit in 2022, and a second burn follows October 22
The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft is flying at more than 26,800 mph (12 kilometers…
Environment
In South Africa’s Kruger National Park, an elephant carcass can push soil ammonium to nearly 3,000 times nearby levels, and the biodiversity coldspot it creates is still there nearly 8 years later
In 2009, a large, lone bull elephant called Alexander died of natural causes just off one of…
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