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 Way. The star, S301, reaches up to about 15,900 miles per second (25,600 kilometers per second),…
Off England’s Kent coast, a 2018 study reviewed 606,554 videos from cameras on Thanet Offshore Wind Farm turbines and counted 6 seabird collisions, and 96.8 percent of recorded seabirds flew between the turbine rows
A study of cameras on two turbines at Thanet Offshore Wind Farm, about 7.5 miles (12 kilometers) off England's Kent coast, reviewed…
In Brazil’s Guapiaçu Ecological Reserve, a restoration project rooted in one family’s old farm has planted 1 million native seedlings, and lowland tapirs missing from Rio de Janeiro since 1914 now number around 25
A restoration project at Brazil's Guapiaçu Ecological Reserve, in Cachoeiras de Macacu in Rio de Janeiro state, has planted 1 million native…
On Mount Roraima, where Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana meet, Pemón storytellers told an ethnologist in 1911 it was the stump of a tree bearing every fruit, and Brazil’s 2026 park plan names that tree
Brazil's new management plan for the national park on Mount Roraima, where Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana meet, names the tree that Pemón…
On the Corent plateau in central France, archaeologists uncovered a Gallic mint of 5 or 6 workshops stretching more than 131 feet, and a lead disk carrying 2 coin-punch impressions matches a known Arverni stater
On the Corent plateau in France's Puy-de-Dôme department, archaeologists have uncovered what was most likely a Gallic mint: five or six stone-built…
In Mars’ Gale Crater, NASA’s Curiosity rover photographed unusually broad, shallow pits in bedrock, one roughly 0.4 inches across, and the mission’s September 3 update still could not explain how they formed
NASA’s Curiosity rover has photographed unusually broad, shallow pits in Martian bedrock, including one roughly 0.4 inches across. An image created on…
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…
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…
Smithsonian scientists swabbed 327 museum frogs and tied a mysterious die-off in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest to the chytrid fungus, but the declined species still common enough to collect tested clean
W. Ronald Heyer kept collecting frogs at Brazil's Boracéia Biological Station after many of them stopped showing up, and his jars, stored…
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…
Crews on a closed Massachusetts golf course in Northampton pulled out a failed culvert and installed human-built beaver dams, and the city now has $2.8 million to finish rewilding the site
Northampton, Massachusetts, has finished the first phase of turning the 105-acre former Pine Grove Golf Course back into wetland and forest, and…
Saudi Arabia told the IAEA it has about 114 million metric tons of uranium-bearing ore near Medina, and the figure that matters most for its nuclear plans, the uranium grade, has not been released
Saudi Arabia has told the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that exploration at Jabal Sayid, in the Madinah Region, has found about…
MBARI scientists surveying an ancient undersea volcano off California filmed a bigfin squid 10,751 feet down, the first live sighting in the northeastern Pacific, and only about 70 are on record
Olívia Soares Pereira was sitting beside the video screens aboard the research vessel David Packard when something pale drifted into the top…
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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…
In the Baltic Sea off Sweden’s Gotland, the 2018 heat wave pushed surface water to about 81 degrees Fahrenheit on August 1, and on some July days southern Scandinavia was hotter than parts of Spain
The 2018 heat wave pushed surface water in the Baltic Sea to about 81 degrees Fahrenheit (27 °C) on August 1, from…
NASA released footage of astronauts testing Lunar Outpost’s Pegasus as robotic rovers and lunar terrain vehicles get ready to scout the Moon’s South Pole, and each LTV will cover up to 3.7 miles a day
NASA on October 20, 2026, released a progress update on the rovers that will open its Moon Base, showing how robotic explorers…
On Mount Roraima, where Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana meet, Pemón storytellers told an ethnologist in 1911 it was the stump of a tree bearing every fruit, and Brazil’s 2026 park plan names that tree
Brazil's new management plan for the national park on Mount Roraima, where Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana meet, names the tree that Pemón…
On the Corent plateau in central France, archaeologists uncovered a Gallic mint of 5 or 6 workshops stretching more than 131 feet, and a lead disk carrying 2 coin-punch impressions matches a known Arverni stater
On the Corent plateau in France's Puy-de-Dôme department, archaeologists have uncovered what was most likely a Gallic mint: five or six stone-built…
In Mars’ Gale Crater, NASA’s Curiosity rover photographed unusually broad, shallow pits in bedrock, one roughly 0.4 inches across, and the mission’s September 3 update still could not explain how they formed
NASA’s Curiosity rover has photographed unusually broad, shallow pits in Martian bedrock, including one roughly 0.4 inches across. An image created on…
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Día Mundial del Ahorro de Energía: cómo reducir el consumo sin renunciar al confort
El 21 de octubre, en el Día Mundial del Ahorro de Energía, debemos enfocarnos en la calefacción, el agua caliente …
En el condado californiano de Orange, dos tortugas golfinas pusieron los primeros nidos de tortuga marina registrados en la costa oeste de EE. UU., y sus 204 huevos podrían eclosionar en un acuario en noviembre
Dos tortugas golfinas pusieron en septiembre de 2026 los primeros nidos registrados de cualquier especie de tortuga marina en la …
De Sagunto a Sevilla, el Fondo de Innovación de la UE reparte 3400 millones entre 77 proyectos limpios y España coloca ocho, de una gigafactoría de baterías a la captura de CO2 de una cementera
La Comisión Europea seleccionó el 19 de octubre de 2026 a 77 proyectos de tecnologías limpias de 23 países para …
El caballito de mar de hocico largo, símbolo del Mar Menor, pasa a ser especie vulnerable
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Los incendios en Indonesia rozan los dos millones de hectáreas y extienden el humo a países vecinos
Los incendios en Indonesia están causando estragos en toda la región, con cerca de dos millones de hectáreas calcinadas en …
Los incendios forestales queman 275.209 hectáreas en España: 2,5 veces la media decenal
El Miteco ha contabilizado 45 grandes incendios forestales hasta el 20 de septiembre y ha advertido que existen dificultades para …
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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…
Off England’s Kent coast, a 2018 study reviewed 606,554 videos from cameras on Thanet Offshore Wind Farm turbines and counted 6 seabird collisions, and 96.8 percent of recorded seabirds flew between the turbine rows
A study of cameras on two turbines at Thanet Offshore Wind Farm, about 7.5 miles (12 kilometers) off England's Kent coast, reviewed…
In Brazil’s Guapiaçu Ecological Reserve, a restoration project rooted in one family’s old farm has planted 1 million native seedlings, and lowland tapirs missing from Rio de Janeiro since 1914 now number around 25
A restoration project at Brazil's Guapiaçu Ecological Reserve, in Cachoeiras de Macacu in Rio de Janeiro state, has planted 1 million native…
Smithsonian scientists swabbed 327 museum frogs and tied a mysterious die-off in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest to the chytrid fungus, but the declined species still common enough to collect tested clean
W. Ronald Heyer kept collecting frogs at Brazil's Boracéia Biological Station after many of them stopped showing up, and his jars, stored…
Crews on a closed Massachusetts golf course in Northampton pulled out a failed culvert and installed human-built beaver dams, and the city now has $2.8 million to finish rewilding the site
Northampton, Massachusetts, has finished the first phase of turning the 105-acre former Pine Grove Golf Course back into wetland and forest, and…
Yellowstone hot springs, geysers and boardwalks gave up more than 20,100 pieces of trash, 5,600 rocks and sticks and over 280 hats by early September, including six Invisalign retainers and a single Uno card
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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…
TouchWind put a floating wind turbine with a 20-foot rotor that tilts back like a helicopter in storms on a Dutch lake, and the test asks whether wind farms can pack turbines closer together
"A diver. Mooring lines. Precision under water." That is how TouchWind, a small wind company from Eindhoven, opened its post about the…
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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 el norte de Nueva York y en Gainesville, Florida, 94 gatos con una funda de colores llevaron a casa un 61 % menos de pájaros y en el norte la caída llegó al 69 %
Un estudio con 94 gatos del condado de St. Lawrence, en el norte del estado de Nueva York, y de …
En Penrith, Australia, dos calles estrenaron un asfalto con vasos de café que recicló unos 136.000 vasos y vidrio de 1,2 millones de botellas, y su fibra evita que el betún escurra
Penrith, al oeste de Sídney (Australia), tiene dos calles con un asfalto con vasos de café en el que se …
En el atolón de Aldabra, en Seychelles, se acumulan cientos de toneladas de plástico, y un estudio de Oxford calcula que el 54,1 % de la basura pesquera que llega a su grupo de islas sale de aguas del país
Un estudio de la Universidad de Oxford y la Sociedad Zoológica de Londres, publicado en Marine Pollution Bulletin, calcula que …
En el tokamak DIII-D de San Diego, la IA PACMAN de Princeton predijo una inestabilidad del plasma con unos 200 milisegundos de antelación y permitió evitarla antes de que los controladores convencionales pudieran detectarla
Un sistema de inteligencia artificial llamado PACMAN predijo en el tokamak DIII-D de San Diego una inestabilidad del plasma, un …
En Karahantepe, en el sureste de Turquía, apareció una escultura de piedra de unos 11.000 años y 70 centímetros con un humano sentado sobre un leopardo, y seguía en el banco donde la dejaron
Los arqueólogos que excavan Karahantepe, en el sureste de Turquía, han hallado una escultura de piedra de 70 centímetros y …
En los trenes británicos, una campaña recuerda que poner música sin auriculares y negarse a apagarla puede acabar en una multa de hasta 1000 libras, y en los autobuses de Inglaterra vapear o ensuciar podrá costar hasta 100
Los trenes británicos tendrán una campaña nacional contra la música sin auriculares. El primer ministro británico, Andy Burnham, la presentó …
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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…
