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
In the early 1990s, workers at car parts shipping sites in Japan were reading about 10 barcodes in a row for every single product. Masahiro Hara, a barcode engineer who had joined the company in 1980 and would…
Aboriginal ranger-divers and archaeologists found underwater stone tools at a Western Australian spring drowned at least 9,000 years ago, and nearly half came from rock about 14 miles away
Aboriginal ranger-divers and archaeologists have pulled nine stone tools from a drowned freshwater spring in Flying Foam Passage, in Western Australia's Murujuga,…
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 China’s Yunnan Province, scientists found a giant fungus nicknamed D-rex that grows up to 20 inches tall, and its family likely arose about 65 million years ago, as the dinosaurs died out
Jing Song collected it on August 5, 2024, near Damaidi, a village in Luquan County, part of the city of Kunming, in…
Israel released 28 Asiatic wild asses into the Negev from 1982 to 1987, and DNA from their dung now shows a herd eating native plants and inbreeding less after managers added three water points
In 1982, Israel began releasing Asiatic wild asses in the Ein Saharonim area of Makhtesh Ramon, the giant erosion crater in the…
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
In July 2023, archaeologists in Loch Bhorgastail, on Scotland's Isle of Lewis, dug a small pit through a layer of laid logs…
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 scheduled to lift off from the Tanegashima Space Center at 4:41:03 a.m. Japan time on Tuesday, October 20,…
Angelina Jolie’s foundation has spent 20 years in a 150,720-acre Cambodian forest where elephants and pangolins still roam, and its rangers pulled about 4.8 miles of wire snares out in 2025
Angelina Jolie's foundation has looked after the Samlaut forest in northwestern Cambodia for 20 years, and a June 2026 field note says…
In West Antarctica, a Thwaites Glacier model checked against 27 years of satellite records projects it could add up to about 1.2 inches to global seas by 2100, and that is roughly double earlier estimates
From March to June of 2023, Finland's ICEYE radar satellites passed over Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica day after day. They watched…
Off Mozambique, divers surveyed three peat reefs made of forest peat up to 5,000 years old, and each held 26 to 36 kinds of small fish with no living coral
Divers working off Mozambique's San Sebastian Peninsula in 2023 kept finding fish on a seabed that used to be forest. The dark…
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 January 2022, a crew that included USGS research geologist Kathleen Springer and her colleague Jeffrey Pigati went back to a trench…
In gardens across Britain and Europe, a dark dropping up to 2 inches long can be hedgehog poop rather than a rat sign, and the Mammal Society says shiny insect fragments give it away
Many hedgehogs cross a lawn at night without being seen, but plenty of people find the dark little sausage it leaves on…
Scientists grew the UK’s first rice crop in four flooded paddies near Ely during the record-breaking summer of 2025, and the trial could help farmers keep the Fens’ peat soils wet
In the summer of 2025, rice plants stood in calf-deep water on a farm a few miles north of Ely, in the…
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Certificación ecológica: qué garantiza y por qué no significa «residuo cero»
Si alguna vez te has parado a pensar en si los alimentos ecológicos están libres de pesticidas, es bueno que …
El Fondo de Innovación selecciona nueve proyectos con participación española para descarbonizar la industria
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La COP17 de biodiversidad reclama más financiación ante el retraso de las metas para 2030
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La planificación eléctrica de Aragón prevé 8 GW adicionales, liderados por los centros de datos
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Ikea y los bosques de Rumanía: Greenpeace denuncia talas en los Cárpatos y la empresa lo niega
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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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Israel released 28 Asiatic wild asses into the Negev from 1982 to 1987, and DNA from their dung now shows a herd eating native plants and inbreeding less after managers added three water points
In 1982, Israel began releasing Asiatic wild asses in the Ein Saharonim area of Makhtesh Ramon, the giant erosion crater in the…
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In West Antarctica, a Thwaites Glacier model checked against 27 years of satellite records projects it could add up to about 1.2 inches to global seas by 2100, and that is roughly double earlier estimates
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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
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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…
The Energy Department offered Vistra up to $4.2 billion for 433 more megawatts from nuclear uprates at three plants in Ohio and Pennsylvania, and the upgrades could help keep them running 20 years past their licenses
Energy Secretary Chris Wright went to the Perry Nuclear Power Plant, on Lake Erie east of Cleveland, on Monday, October 5, to…
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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
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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
John Dorgan says he ate the gummy bears himself. "We recovered food-grade potassium lactate and used it to make gummy bear candies,…
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En Exeter, en el sur de Inglaterra, un expreso de las 22:05 se retrasó 16 minutos por una tormenta magnética, y un estudio fecha el suceso en 1848 y no en 1841
Una noche de octubre, en la estación de Exeter, en el sur de Inglaterra, el expreso de las 22:05 hacia …
En España, el precio de la luz en el mercado mayorista promedió 215,11 euros/MWh el 19 de octubre, máximo desde abril de 2022, y la tarifa regulada superó 0,38 euros/kWh en su hora más cara
El domingo 18 de octubre, entre las 11:45 y las 16:00, la electricidad se vendió a 0 euros en el …
En el monte Sharp, el Curiosity fotografió hoyos anchos y poco profundos, uno de 1 centímetro, que parecen huellas en Marte, y la NASA admite que en 14 años no había visto casi nada igual
El 19 de agosto de 2026, a las 07:59 UTC, la cámara que el rover Curiosity lleva en la punta …
Un microrreactor nuclear que cabe en un contenedor de 6 metros logró su primera reacción en cadena en Idaho unos 150 días después de arrancar el proyecto y en 2027 deberá probarse a plena potencia
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La ETH Zúrich y el PSI crean un haz de muonio a 2180 metros por segundo para poner a prueba la gravedad de Einstein, aunque el experimento que medirá su caída tardará aún dos o tres años
En una cámara de cobre del Instituto Paul Scherrer (PSI), en Villigen (Suiza), una capa de helio de 2 milímetros …
Estados Unidos desechó casi 11 millones de toneladas de muebles en 2018 y el reciclaje de muebles medido por la EPA se quedó en el 0,3 %: desmontarlos es caro por el pegamento, según un informe neerlandés
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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
In the early 1990s, workers at car parts shipping sites in Japan were reading about 10 barcodes in a row for every…
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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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…
A Brazilian mechanic pushed a water-filled bottle through a roof tile during 2002 blackouts, and lab tests show his solar bottle bulb passes 50 to 70 percent of incoming light and spreads it more evenly
Alfredo Moser was fixing cars in Uberaba, Brazil, when the 2002 blackouts left his workshop dark in the middle of the day.…
