A northern gannet can hit the ocean at roughly 54 mph and keep hunting underwater, and CT scans now show the sturdy neck bones that help diving seabirds survive the impact
A northern gannet can strike the ocean at roughly 54 mph and keep chasing fish beneath the surface. Research published October 12, 2026, adds another clue to how these birds withstand the plunge, identifying unusually sturdy neck bones…
A tugboat and a crane barge helped move the 45,000-ton Battleship Wisconsin about five feet off its Norfolk pier, its first move since 2000, so crews could replace the fender cushioning its hull
On September 8, 2026, crews in downtown Norfolk, Virginia, got the Battleship Wisconsin to budge from its pier for the first time…
Marine archaeologists from Sweden’s Vrak museum made the first dives in decades on Kantinen, a barge that sank in Lake Hugn in 1808 carrying five heavy cannons, and the guns were nowhere in sight
Marine archaeologists from Vrak, Sweden's Museum of Wrecks, have filmed Kantinen, a barge that sank in Lake Hugn in 1808. It went…
The BelAZ 75710 dump truck hauls 450 metric tons on eight tires, and the record mining giant still runs on diesel, with two 16-cylinder engines making power for its electric motors
The BelAZ 75710, built by the Belarusian manufacturer BELAZ, is rated to haul 450 metric tons in a single load. That is…
A 60-megawatt wind farm is already running near Dakhla, and Morocco has offered 35 more farm projects that will depend on desalinated Atlantic seawater from a plant still under construction
Morocco's Agricultural Development Agency (ADA) opened a third bidding round in late June 2026 for 35 farm projects near Dakhla. The land,…
A CNRS team found France’s Giens peninsula was once an island before two sand strips joined it to the mainland, and a geographer warns the western strip could vanish within 80 years
France's Giens peninsula, a hilly strip of land south of Hyères on the Var coast, was once a true island. Researchers working…
About 9 million lightning flashes recorded over northern Europe from 1998 to 2019 show extreme lightning days came roughly twice as often during high-speed solar wind, and storm clouds still had to come first
Extreme lightning days over northern Europe came about twice as often during high-speed solar wind, a new study reports. The team examined…
Lutron says a tiny current that smart dimmers keep drawing after you flip the switch can make sensitive LED bulbs glow in the dark, and Leviton blames older neon illuminated switches for the same ghosting
You turn off the bedroom light, and the LED bulb overhead keeps a dim glow. Lighting companies Lutron, Leviton and Brennenstuhl each…
The Hunga Tonga eruption sent at least 330,000 metric tons of methane into the stratosphere, and formaldehyde seen from orbit shows its salty ash cloud then broke down about 900 metric tons a day
Satellite readings show that the Hunga Tonga eruption's plume broke down about 900 metric tons (990 short tons) of methane a day.…
A ritual bath preserved 13.8 feet from floor to ceiling stands in a monumental purification complex at the foot of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, and archaeologists say pilgrims likely purified themselves there before entering the Temple
Five summers of digging by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have exposed a monumental purification complex at the foot of the Temple…
Geologist Arthur Hickman spotted an 850-foot circle on Google Earth in 2007, and drilling 212 feet into what is now Hickman Crater turned up melted rock laced with nickel from an iron meteorite
Hickman Crater is a ring of rock about 850 feet (260 meters) wide in Western Australia's Pilbara region. Arthur Hickman, a geologist…
A 60-hour pour of about 311,000 cubic feet of concrete started the second reactor at China’s Zhaoyuan nuclear plant, and each of six planned units will get a 666-foot cooling tower
China General Nuclear (CGN) began pouring concrete for Unit 2 at its Zhaoyuan nuclear plant on September 5, 2026. The pour in…
NASA is targeting summer 2027 for Artemis III, a 14-day test flight in low Earth orbit with two commercial landers, and Administrator Jared Isaacman expects astronauts to land on the Moon in 2028
NASA is targeting a summer 2027 launch for Artemis III, a crewed test flight that will stay in low Earth orbit. Administrator…
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A fishing trip off Jordan aimed at catching swordfish pulled up a pelagic stingray never confirmed in the Red Sea before, and scientists identified it from an Instagram video
A fishing trip aimed at catching swordfish has added an unexpected animal to the Red Sea’s scientific record. On May 30, 2025,…
The Mjønes shipwreck in northern Norway was built from local pine in the mid-1700s and repaired as late as the mid-1800s, giving this jekt cargo ship more than three times the usual 30-year lifespan
The Mjønes shipwreck, a wooden jekt cargo ship in northern Norway, stayed in service for more than a century. It was built…
Marine archaeologists from Sweden’s Vrak museum made the first dives in decades on Kantinen, a barge that sank in Lake Hugn in 1808 carrying five heavy cannons, and the guns were nowhere in sight
Marine archaeologists from Vrak, Sweden's Museum of Wrecks, have filmed Kantinen, a barge that sank in Lake Hugn in 1808. It went…
About 9 million lightning flashes recorded over northern Europe from 1998 to 2019 show extreme lightning days came roughly twice as often during high-speed solar wind, and storm clouds still had to come first
Extreme lightning days over northern Europe came about twice as often during high-speed solar wind, a new study reports. The team examined…
The Hunga Tonga eruption sent at least 330,000 metric tons of methane into the stratosphere, and formaldehyde seen from orbit shows its salty ash cloud then broke down about 900 metric tons a day
Satellite readings show that the Hunga Tonga eruption's plume broke down about 900 metric tons (990 short tons) of methane a day.…
A ritual bath preserved 13.8 feet from floor to ceiling stands in a monumental purification complex at the foot of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, and archaeologists say pilgrims likely purified themselves there before entering the Temple
Five summers of digging by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have exposed a monumental purification complex at the foot of the Temple…
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Resiliencia climática: Bruselas quiere que la UE prepare su economía para un mundo tres grados más cálido
El plan de resiliencia climática plantea incorporar los riesgos del calentamiento a las inversiones y las infraestructuras, con unas necesidades …
Comunidades energéticas: Navarra busca implicar a más vecinos en la generación de su propia energía
El V Encuentro de Comunidades Energéticas de Navarra reúne en Etxauri a más de 60 participantes para compartir proyectos, conocer …
Alimentos innovadores: el 35% de los europeos los consumiría más si se redujera el uso de pesticidas
El Eurobarómetro revela que el 85% de los europeos reclama un etiquetado claro para los alimentos innovadores, mientras que en …
La Policía Ambiental de Córdoba rescató una hembra joven de gato del pajonal con bajo peso y pulgas, un felino Vulnerable con un descenso estimado del 30 % en 21 años
La Policía Ambiental de Córdoba, cuyo secretario es Adrián Rinaudo, rescató una hembra joven de gato del pajonal entre La …
Centro de datos de Monfarracinos: Zamora cuestiona el trato excepcional al proyecto de 4.600 millones
El Ayuntamiento presentará alegaciones contra la declaración regional del centro de datos de Monfarracinos a causa de su impacto territorial …
Áreas marinas protegidas: la pesca es un 72 % más intensa dentro de los espacios Natura 2000 que fuera
La UE solo ha declarado el 14 % de sus aguas como áreas marinas protegidas y sus auditores ven muy …
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A northern gannet can hit the ocean at roughly 54 mph and keep hunting underwater, and CT scans now show the sturdy neck bones that help diving seabirds survive the impact
A northern gannet can strike the ocean at roughly 54 mph and keep chasing fish beneath the surface. Research published October 12,…
Two decades of research cruises off West Africa show round sardinella pushing its northern edge about 112 miles per decade, and its share north of Mauritania’s Cape Blanc rose from 38 to 65 percent
Round sardinella, the most abundant small fish off Senegal and Mauritania, is moving north as the sea warms. Its northern edge advanced…
A 60-megawatt wind farm is already running near Dakhla, and Morocco has offered 35 more farm projects that will depend on desalinated Atlantic seawater from a plant still under construction
Morocco's Agricultural Development Agency (ADA) opened a third bidding round in late June 2026 for 35 farm projects near Dakhla. The land,…
A CNRS team found France’s Giens peninsula was once an island before two sand strips joined it to the mainland, and a geographer warns the western strip could vanish within 80 years
France's Giens peninsula, a hilly strip of land south of Hyères on the Var coast, was once a true island. Researchers working…
In northwestern Madagascar’s Sambirano River region, a DNA study of 70 samples found a baobab species demoted to a variety in 1952 is distinct after all, and its authors say it would qualify as endangered
Madagascar has one more baobab species than botanists thought. A study published July 12, 2026, in the journal Taxon brings back Adansonia…
Ten years after New South Wales teamed up with conservationists, 13 locally extinct mammals are back in three fenced reserves, and some gone over a century now breed safe from feral cats and foxes
New South Wales has reintroduced 13 locally extinct mammals to three fenced conservation sites, the state government announced on June 29, 2026.…
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Finland has granted the world’s first operating licence to permanently bury spent nuclear fuel, in copper canisters about 1,410 feet down in the bedrock of Olkiluoto island, and the last tunnels are not due to be sealed until after the 2120s
Finland will be the first country to bury its spent nuclear fuel for good, after the government granted Posiva on October 22…
China Three Gorges began commercial trial operation of a 1-gigawatt solar complex in Xinjiang’s Gobi that stores heat in 1,022°F molten salt, and its 100-megawatt thermal unit can generate for eight hours after dark
China Three Gorges Corporation started commercial trial operation of a 1-gigawatt solar complex in Hami, Xinjiang, on July 7, 2026. The plant…
A 60-hour pour of about 311,000 cubic feet of concrete started the second reactor at China’s Zhaoyuan nuclear plant, and each of six planned units will get a 666-foot cooling tower
China General Nuclear (CGN) began pouring concrete for Unit 2 at its Zhaoyuan nuclear plant on September 5, 2026. The pour in…
An estimated 4.2 million balcony solar systems are now plugged in at homes and apartments in Germany, and in Croatia the same small kit still needs a certified installer, design documents and paid metering
Germany now has an estimated 4.2 million balcony solar systems plugged in at homes and apartments, according to the country's Environment Agency…
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…
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The BelAZ 75710 dump truck hauls 450 metric tons on eight tires, and the record mining giant still runs on diesel, with two 16-cylinder engines making power for its electric motors
The BelAZ 75710, built by the Belarusian manufacturer BELAZ, is rated to haul 450 metric tons in a single load. That is…
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…
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«Todos los caminos llevan a Roma» no era del todo cierto: un estudio de casi 300.000 kilómetros de vías romanas revela que Bizancio y Antioquía estaban mejor conectadas por tierra
«Todos los caminos llevan a Roma» es una de esas frases que repetimos sin pensarlo demasiado. Pero un estudio de …
Pusieron dos locomotoras de más de 110 toneladas sobre el techo de la estación de La Sagrera para ver si aguantaba, y la losa de 2,82 kilómetros que cubre las vías ya está terminada
La estación de La Sagrera, en Barcelona, ha completado las pruebas de carga de la estructura que sostiene sus vías …
Ingenieros de los Laboratorios Sandia logran tostar café con energía solar guardada en un lecho de grava a 550 °C, y su prototipo de 100 kWh ya acumula más de 200 días de ciclos diarios
Ingenieros de los Laboratorios Nacionales Sandia, en Albuquerque (Estados Unidos), han logrado tostar café con energía solar guardada en grava. …
Unos 40.000 bloques de grafito bajo las gradas de un estadio de Chicago formaron en 1942 el primer reactor nuclear, y en el bosque de Illinois donde acabó todavía se vigila el tritio
Unos 40.000 bloques de grafito con piezas de uranio formaron el primer reactor nuclear, montado en una pista de squash …
Jérémie Bonneau y su equipo reconstruyeron cómo se vació el último lago epishelf de Canadá tras perder la plataforma Milne el 45 % de su superficie en 2020, y en 2022 solo quedaba agua salobre
El último lago epishelf de Canadá, una capa de agua dulce que flotaba sobre el mar en el fiordo Milne, …
En la década de 1850 llegaron cerdos a Santa Cruz, en California, y 150 años después eliminar 5036 ayudó a que el zorro de la isla de Santa Cruz pasara de 55 a 3086 ejemplares
El zorro de la isla de Santa Cruz, una subespecie exclusiva de esa isla de California, llegó a quedarse en …
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A tugboat and a crane barge helped move the 45,000-ton Battleship Wisconsin about five feet off its Norfolk pier, its first move since 2000, so crews could replace the fender cushioning its hull
On September 8, 2026, crews in downtown Norfolk, Virginia, got the Battleship Wisconsin to budge from its pier for the first time…
In Yunnan’s Yanjin, the so-called world’s narrowest city squeezes homes into a river valley that narrows to about 98 feet, and the famous 400,000 population figure actually covers the whole county, not the town
In the mountains of southwestern China, Yanjin squeezes homes and roads into a river valley that narrows to about 98 feet. Often…
In Japan, researchers led by Tohoku University used an inexpensive blue pigment to turn carbon dioxide into methane with 79.5% Faradaic efficiency, and methane selectivity stayed above 60% for about 80 hours
An inexpensive blue pigment has helped researchers in Japan turn carbon dioxide into methane in a single electrochemical process. The laboratory advance…
A company won a mining license for a magnesium deposit it estimates at more than 50 million metric tons near Rășinari, in Romania’s Sibiu County, and the EU gets 97 percent of its magnesium from China
Order 529 of Sept. 3, 2026, gave Mineral Proiect Invest S.A. (MPI) mining concession license 29.694/2026 at Valea Dobra, a magnesium deposit…
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…
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Workers digging a kitchen foundation in Massachusetts found the Marblehead Hoard, 82 gold and silver coins from nine countries, and its top piece, a 1764 Mexican gold coin, was estimated at up to $10,000
Workers digging a new kitchen foundation in Marblehead, Massachusetts, uncovered the gold and silver coins now known as the Marblehead Hoard. Numismatic…
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,…
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Lutron says a tiny current that smart dimmers keep drawing after you flip the switch can make sensitive LED bulbs glow in the dark, and Leviton blames older neon illuminated switches for the same ghosting
You turn off the bedroom light, and the LED bulb overhead keeps a dim glow. Lighting companies Lutron, Leviton and Brennenstuhl each…
Bill and Shane Kellogg spent a decade opening their 5,000-acre Ohio farm to water quality research in the Lake Erie basin, and now their Hardin County family has won a 2026 Conservation Farm Family Award
The Kellogg family of Hardin County, Ohio, has won a 2026 Conservation Farm Family Award from the Ohio Department of Agriculture. Bill…
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…
