Mobility

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

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

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October 17, 2026 at 5:01 PM

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

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

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October 17, 2026 at 3:02 PM

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
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

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

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October 12, 2026 at 6:29 PM

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

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

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October 11, 2026 at 12:31 PM

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

Airbus A350F freighter completes its maiden flight and begins 400-hour test campaign

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October 10, 2026 at 8:47 AM

Dozens of buyers, financiers and suppliers stood beside the runway in Toulouse, France, on September…

Science

An islet in Scotland’s Loch Bhorgastail is a 5,000-year-old artificial island built on a 75-foot timber platform, and hundreds of Neolithic potsherds, some holding food residue, lay around it

An islet in Scotland’s Loch Bhorgastail is a 5,000-year-old artificial island built on a 75-foot timber platform, and hundreds of Neolithic potsherds, some holding food residue, lay around it

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October 19, 2026 at 8:46 AM

In July 2023, archaeologists in Loch Bhorgastail, on Scotland’s Isle of Lewis, dug a small…

Japan’s MMX mission is set to launch October 19 to bring back the first sample from Mars’s moon Phobos, and a 55-pound rover named Idefix will touch down on the moon first

Japan’s MMX mission is set to launch October 19 to bring back the first sample from Mars’s moon Phobos, and a 55-pound rover named Idefix will touch down on the moon first

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October 19, 2026 at 7:31 AM

Japan’s MMX mission is scheduled to lift off from the Tanegashima Space Center at 4:41:03…

In New Mexico’s White Sands National Park, footprints left beside mammoths date to 23,500 to 21,700 years ago, and pollen shows those walkers saw pine forest turn to pinyon and juniper within about 100 years

In New Mexico’s White Sands National Park, footprints left beside mammoths date to 23,500 to 21,700 years ago, and pollen shows those walkers saw pine forest turn to pinyon and juniper within about 100 years

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October 18, 2026 at 7:14 PM

In January 2022, a crew that included USGS research geologist Kathleen Springer and her colleague…

A giant isopod brought from Puerto Rico in the 1980s sat in a University of Tübingen collection under the wrong name for decades, and a closer look shows the 12.7-inch crustacean is a new species

A giant isopod brought from Puerto Rico in the 1980s sat in a University of Tübingen collection under the wrong name for decades, and a closer look shows the 12.7-inch crustacean is a new species

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October 18, 2026 at 1:46 PM

A dried giant isopod brought from Puerto Rico in the late 1980s, and filed for…

Awunbarna in western Arnhem Land holds 20 of the 52 known recent Rainbow Serpent rock paintings, one 20 feet long, and archaeologists argue artists painted them big as colonization upended their world

Awunbarna in western Arnhem Land holds 20 of the 52 known recent Rainbow Serpent rock paintings, one 20 feet long, and archaeologists argue artists painted them big as colonization upended their world

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October 18, 2026 at 12:31 PM

On the ceiling of a rock shelter at Awunbarna, in Australia’s Northern Territory, a white…

University of Kentucky students designed 12 small capsules to test experimental heat shields, including a 3D-printed one, and they left the ISS inside a cargo ship full of trash set to burn up on reentry

University of Kentucky students designed 12 small capsules to test experimental heat shields, including a 3D-printed one, and they left the ISS inside a cargo ship full of trash set to burn up on reentry

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October 18, 2026 at 11:31 AM

On Oct. 7, a dome-shaped capsule with a University of Kentucky sticker floated among stowed…