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 Cambridgeshire Fens…
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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…
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,…
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 &…
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…
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…
Airbus A350F freighter completes its maiden flight and begins 400-hour test campaign
Dozens of buyers, financiers and suppliers stood beside the runway in Toulouse, France, on September…
Energy
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,…
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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 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
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
On Oct. 7, a dome-shaped capsule with a University of Kentucky sticker floated among stowed…
A toothless hell chicken dinosaur from Montana’s Hell Creek Formation weighed about 26 pounds, and scientists think its jaw slid back and forth to mash soft fruit like a parrot’s
A toothless dinosaur dug up in July 2011 in the Hell Creek Formation of Garfield…
Archaeologists packing up a Roman-era cemetery near Wrocław, Poland, found a 5,000-year-old grave with a necklace of 42 drilled teeth and two extra skulls, and researchers want to know whether the heads were cut off
Archaeologists digging a late Roman cemetery outside Wrocław, Poland, had started tidying up the site…
On a ridge above Alaska’s Tanana River, archaeologists recovered more than 80,000 objects from a 13,800-year-old Ice Age base camp, and its diamond-shaped stone points match ones found in Siberia
Inside what its excavators describe as the earliest potential habitation structure in North America, archaeologists…
Environment
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…
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