Volunteers and scientists found two new snail species in Montenegro with shells about a quarter inch long and a door on the tail, and one lives in a canyon a planned 561-foot dam would flood
Volunteers and scientists working the limestone cliffs of northern Montenegro have found two new snail species, and one of them lives in a canyon…
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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
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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
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Niam Chiang Meng, then chairman of Singapore’s Maritime and Port Authority (MPA), described the first…
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Divers off Turkey’s Kekova Island found a shipwreck that archaeologists date to 4,400 to 4,700 years ago and call the oldest known shipwreck, and some of its jars still hold a glossy residue
Off Kekova Island in southern Turkey, about 100 feet (30 meters) down, divers have been…
The SS Richard Montgomery, a U.S. Liberty ship that sank off Sheerness in 1944, still holds about 1,400 tons of explosives, and salvors have cut away the three masts that marked it for 82 years
On August 20, 1944, the SS Richard Montgomery dragged its anchor in the Thames Estuary…
A farmer in China’s Liaoning province found a four-winged dinosaur whose lineage evolved 57 bird-like traits in a different order than birds did, a sign its flight gear was built independently
“The specimen was discovered by a local farmer near Lamadong Town (Jianchang County, western Liaoning,…
Conservators restoring a church pulpit in Ciachcin, Poland, found a parchment the parish priest hid inside it in 1884, and it names the gilders, carpenters and apprentices history usually forgets
Conservators finishing work on a church pulpit in Ciachcin, a village near Płock in central…
Dragomirna Monastery in Romania has a Greek decree over 2,000 years old set into its porch floor honoring an architect from Byzantion, and scholars have long argued over which Black Sea city issued it
At Dragomirna Monastery, near Suceava in northeastern Romania, a marble slab lies in the porch…
NASA’s Perseverance rover studied more than 185 rock targets along the inner rim of Jezero Crater and found they met water at least three times, the last as hot fluid that left fluorite veins
When NASA’s Perseverance rover reached the inner edge of Jezero Crater in September 2023, the…
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Volunteers and scientists found two new snail species in Montenegro with shells about a quarter inch long and a door on the tail, and one lives in a canyon a planned 561-foot dam would flood
Volunteers and scientists working the limestone cliffs of northern Montenegro have found two new snail species, and…
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