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 on Sept. 10, after a trip of more than 5,500 miles (about 8,850 kilometers), and now…
Across Switzerland, 1,000 volunteers buried over 2,000 pairs of cotton underwear, and within two months gardens broke down about 58 percent of the fabric in soils holding roughly four times the phosphorus of farm fields
About 1,000 volunteers across Switzerland buried more than 2,000 pairs of cotton underwear for a soil experiment called Proof by Underpants, and…
On Lake Nasser behind Egypt’s Aswan High Dam, an estimated 3.2 trillion gallons evaporate each year, more than the Seine carries through Paris, and a 1959 treaty budgeted for 2.6 trillion gallons in storage losses
About 12 billion cubic meters of water, roughly 3.2 trillion gallons, evaporate each year from Lake Nasser, the reservoir behind Egypt's Aswan…
In northern Quebec’s La Grande hydroelectric complex, flooding pushed mercury in fish to 2 to 8 times natural lake levels, and the Cree health board now says most local fish can be eaten safely
In northern Quebec, flooding for Hydro-Québec's La Grande hydroelectric complex pushed mercury in fish to 2 to 8 times natural lake levels,…
In Sharjah’s Al Madam ghost village, about 31 miles from Dubai, sand fills houses residents left in 1994, and a wind tunnel test reproduced the sand pattern around two of its buildings even in the details
In the Al Madam ghost village in the emirate of Sharjah, about 31 miles (50 kilometers) southeast of Dubai, sand now fills…
In Alaska’s Bering Sea, snow-Tanner hybrid crabs became 13.4 times more abundant after a marine heatwave wiped out billions of snow crabs, and in 2025 they made up 41.7 percent of commercial-sized males
In Alaska's Bering Sea, snow-Tanner hybrid crabs were 13.4 times more abundant in 2025 than their 1988-2024 average. NOAA Fisheries scientists reported…
Inside the Sun, an Ege University astronomer’s models hint that our star may have swallowed a rocky world of five to ten Earth masses, and the best fit points to about 5.6 times Earth’s mass
The Sun may carry traces of a planet that disappeared billions of years ago. A new study suggests that swallowing a rocky…
In a San Mateo County creek, a geomorphologist surveying habitat for threatened California red-legged frogs found an intact Pacific mastodon molar, a species only named in 2019, and Stanford plans to carbon date it
A geomorphologist surveying a creek in a San Mateo County preserve for threatened California red-legged frogs this summer found an intact Pacific…
Out of the Sahara Desert, a 1-pound angrite meteorite called NWA 12774 carries crystals that grew under more than 17 kilobars of pressure, and they point to a lost world at least 1,240 miles across
A 1-pound angrite meteorite from the Sahara Desert, Northwest Africa 12774, holds crystals that grew at about 17.56 kilobars, roughly 255,000 pounds…
At the center of the Milky Way, astronomers found the fastest known star, S301, reaching about 15,900 miles per second near Sagittarius A*, and its 8.7-year orbit could reveal how fast the black hole spins
Astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Garching, Germany, have found the fastest known star in the Milky…
On the Yangtze River in China’s Hubei province, 36 Milu deer escaped a flooded nature reserve in May 1998, and by the end of 2009 the escapees and their descendants numbered more than 500
In May 1998, the Yangtze River rose over its banks in China's Hubei province, and 36 of the 84 Milu deer living…
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,…
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…
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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…
In Sharjah’s Al Madam ghost village, about 31 miles from Dubai, sand fills houses residents left in 1994, and a wind tunnel test reproduced the sand pattern around two of its buildings even in the details
In the Al Madam ghost village in the emirate of Sharjah, about 31 miles (50 kilometers) southeast of Dubai, sand now fills…
Inside the Sun, an Ege University astronomer’s models hint that our star may have swallowed a rocky world of five to ten Earth masses, and the best fit points to about 5.6 times Earth’s mass
The Sun may carry traces of a planet that disappeared billions of years ago. A new study suggests that swallowing a rocky…
In a San Mateo County creek, a geomorphologist surveying habitat for threatened California red-legged frogs found an intact Pacific mastodon molar, a species only named in 2019, and Stanford plans to carbon date it
A geomorphologist surveying a creek in a San Mateo County preserve for threatened California red-legged frogs this summer found an intact Pacific…
Out of the Sahara Desert, a 1-pound angrite meteorite called NWA 12774 carries crystals that grew under more than 17 kilobars of pressure, and they point to a lost world at least 1,240 miles across
A 1-pound angrite meteorite from the Sahara Desert, Northwest Africa 12774, holds crystals that grew at about 17.56 kilobars, roughly 255,000 pounds…
At the center of the Milky Way, astronomers found the fastest known star, S301, reaching about 15,900 miles per second near Sagittarius A*, and its 8.7-year orbit could reveal how fast the black hole spins
Astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Garching, Germany, have found the fastest known star in the Milky…
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En el Centro Espacial Kennedy, la NASA contó 39 territorios de águilas calvas en 2023, más del triple que a principios de los noventa, y un nido de 1973 aguantó casi medio siglo
La NASA contó 39 territorios de águilas calvas en el Centro Espacial Kennedy, en Florida, en su censo de 2023, …
En la Universidad de Sevilla, un estudio de 2010 con lana de oveja y alginato de algas duplicó la resistencia de la tierra sin cocer, y 16 años después el agua sigue siendo el problema
Un estudio de la Universidad de Sevilla y la Universidad de Strathclyde publicado en 2010 mezcló lana de oveja sin …
Exportación de residuos: SEO/BirdLife pide a la UE dejar de enviar su basura a otros países
La organización SEO/BirdLife reclama que se reduzca la exportación de residuos a terceros países y que se refuerce su tratamiento …
Reglamento ecológico de la UE: acuerdo para prolongar hasta 2036 la equivalencia con 11 países
El comercio de productos ecológicos necesita reglas estables, pero también garantías que mantengan la confianza del consumidor. Ante este dilema …
En California, Newsom ha firmado la ley que prohíbe vender vapeadores desechables desde 2028 con multas de hasta 2000 dólares, y al tercer decomiso la tienda perderá su licencia de tabaco
El gobernador de California, Gavin Newsom, firmó el 28 de septiembre la ley AB 762, de la asambleísta demócrata Jacqui …
Salvia messii: descubren en Perú una planta albiceleste que homenajea a Messi
La ‘Salvia messii’ crece entre los 2000 y los 2400 metros en los Andes peruanos: sus flores recuerdan a la …
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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…
In Princeton, New Jersey, NOAA forecaster Nat Johnson ranked the 2026 El Niño the second strongest on record through August, and the agency now gives a very strong event through early winter its highest odds
NOAA ranks the 2026 El Niño the second strongest on record through August and gives a very strong event through early winter…
In Brazil’s Chapada dos Guimarães, Asian elephant Sandro, about 54, walked out of a crate after 44 years at the Sorocaba Zoo, and on his second night he chose to sleep outside under the stars
Sandro, an Asian elephant of about 54, walked out of his transport crate at Elephant Sanctuary Brazil in Chapada dos Guimarães, Mato…
Across Switzerland, 1,000 volunteers buried over 2,000 pairs of cotton underwear, and within two months gardens broke down about 58 percent of the fabric in soils holding roughly four times the phosphorus of farm fields
About 1,000 volunteers across Switzerland buried more than 2,000 pairs of cotton underwear for a soil experiment called Proof by Underpants, and…
On Lake Nasser behind Egypt’s Aswan High Dam, an estimated 3.2 trillion gallons evaporate each year, more than the Seine carries through Paris, and a 1959 treaty budgeted for 2.6 trillion gallons in storage losses
About 12 billion cubic meters of water, roughly 3.2 trillion gallons, evaporate each year from Lake Nasser, the reservoir behind Egypt's Aswan…
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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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En la cordillera Occidental de Antioquia, el Túnel del Toyo, de 9730 metros y el más largo de Latinoamérica, lleva tres años perforado y Colombia no prevé abrirlo al tráfico hasta octubre de 2027
El Ministerio de Transporte de Colombia prevé que los vehículos puedan circular en octubre de 2027 por el Túnel del …
En Borneo, un macho de la colección de Alfred Russel Wallace ayudó a redefinir la abeja carpintera azul, de 20 a 28 milímetros, y su color sale de un pigmento azul muy raro en insectos
Un catálogo de 144 páginas publicado el 4 de diciembre de 2025 ha reordenado la abeja carpintera azul (Xylocopa caerulea), …
En Manchester, en New Hampshire, la tuneladora Granite Janet ya excava un túnel de 3,6 kilómetros y más de 360 millones de dólares, y lleva el nombre de una ingeniera vetada bajo tierra en 1970
En Manchester, en New Hampshire, la tuneladora Granite Janet ya excava el Cemetery Brook Drain Tunnel, un túnel de 2,25 …
En Botucatu, en Brasil, químicos de la UNESP llenaron en 2011 una columna con cáscara de plátano molida que atrapó plomo y cobre del agua de un río y aguantó 11 ciclos sin perder eficacia
Químicos de la Universidad Estatal Paulista (UNESP), en Botucatu, en el estado brasileño de São Paulo, llenaron en 2011 una …
En España solo se repara el 39 % de los móviles averiados, según la OCU, y rara vez se aceptan arreglos de más de 90 euros, mientras una pantalla oficial cuesta desde 179 euros
En España solo se repara el 39 % de los móviles averiados, según una encuesta de la Organización de Consumidores …
En el observatorio de Arecibo, en Puerto Rico, el zinc de los anclajes cedió durante 39 meses hasta que la plataforma cayó sobre el reflector de 305 metros, y hoy sus restos se visitan
El observatorio de Arecibo, en Puerto Rico, se vino abajo el 1 de diciembre de 2020 porque el zinc que …
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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…
Physicists fired a laser at the plastic used in drink bottles and recovered nanodiamonds just 3 nanometers wide, after each shot hurled about 10 trillion of them at more than 22,000 mph into a soft gel
"The idea is quite cool. You take water bottle plastic; you zap it with a laser to make diamond. How practical it…
Robots built by the Israeli company Ecoppia roll along desert solar panels every night and brush off the dust without a drop of water, saving about 2.6 billion gallons so far, according to the company
Picture a huge solar farm in the desert at night. No sun, no workers, just long rows of dark panels. And then,…
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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…
