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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
Carl Sagan imagined an ecosystem floating in Jupiter’s clouds with microscopic “sinkers,” kilometer-scale balloon-like “floaters” and roaming “hunters,” but nearly 50 years later scientists have found only that some atmospheric layers could meet limited conditions for life, not evidence that anything actually lives there
Published On: September 26, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Nearly 5,000 solar panels were installed on a Swiss dam 8,200 feet above sea level, and despite deep snow and freezing temperatures the Alpine plant produced 3.8 times more winter electricity per unit of capacity than a lowland installation during its first measured year
Published On: September 26, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Atolls can take up to 30 million years to form and now support about 1 million people and 31 million seabirds, but rising seas reveal a surprising paradox because some islands are still growing even as flooding and saltwater threaten to make them increasingly difficult places to live
Published On: September 26, 2026 at 8:43 AM
A truck carrying 70,000 pounds of beehives overturned in Washington and released an estimated 14 million bees, but instead of destroying the colonies responders gave them up to 48 hours to regroup around their queens, inspiring a new 10-page emergency plan for future bee spills
Published On: September 26, 2026 at 6:36 AM
