Mobility

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…

Singapore built 227 concrete caissons, each about 10 stories tall, for a 9.1-kilometer seawall at Tuas Port, and its operator’s own report shows emissions rose 7% in 2025 as more cargo moved to the electric terminal

Singapore built 227 concrete caissons, each about 10 stories tall, for a 9.1-kilometer seawall at Tuas Port, and its operator’s own report shows emissions rose 7% in 2025 as more cargo moved to the electric terminal

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October 4, 2026 at 5:02 PM

Niam Chiang Meng, then chairman of Singapore’s Maritime and Port Authority (MPA), described the first…

A fully electric tractor that recharges from its own solar roof goes on sale in North America, runs about five hours per charge and could save small farms around $15,000 over five years

A fully electric tractor that recharges from its own solar roof goes on sale in North America, runs about five hours per charge and could save small farms around $15,000 over five years

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October 1, 2026 at 8:16 AM

Anyone who has spent a morning next to a diesel tractor knows the routine. The…

Science

Around Antarctica, 1,712 zircon crystals drilled from the seafloor point to Himalayan-style mountains now buried under the ice, and two geologists say their erosion may have helped set the stage for the Cambrian explosion
London’s Natural History Museum kept a skull fragment bought in 1924 in a drawer for nearly 100 years, and it turns out to be a new dinosaur species, Europe’s first known megaraptoran

London’s Natural History Museum kept a skull fragment bought in 1924 in a drawer for nearly 100 years, and it turns out to be a new dinosaur species, Europe’s first known megaraptoran

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October 17, 2026 at 7:31 AM

Sometime before 1924, an amateur fossil hunter named Reginald Walter Hooley picked up a worn…

NASA wants to send a spacecraft equipped with a nuclear reactor and three helicopters to Mars to search for underground water, while also preparing future landing sites for humans

NASA wants to send a spacecraft equipped with a nuclear reactor and three helicopters to Mars to search for underground water, while also preparing future landing sites for humans

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October 16, 2026 at 8:01 PM

NASA plans to launch Space Reactor-1 Freedom, a nuclear-powered spacecraft, in December 2028. Within 48…

On November 20, 2025, a Harvard student predicted an extreme cold snap for December, and weeks later, it struck precisely where one of the world’s best models had failed to predict it

On November 20, 2025, a Harvard student predicted an extreme cold snap for December, and weeks later, it struck precisely where one of the world’s best models had failed to predict it

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October 16, 2026 at 1:46 PM

On November 20, 2025, a forecasting system called MicroDuet sent a week-four temperature outlook to…

ESA’s Hera spacecraft, flying at more than 26,800 mph, was scheduled to fire three thrusters for 93 minutes to brake toward the asteroids NASA’s DART hit in 2022, and a second burn follows October 22

ESA’s Hera spacecraft, flying at more than 26,800 mph, was scheduled to fire three thrusters for 93 minutes to brake toward the asteroids NASA’s DART hit in 2022, and a second burn follows October 22

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October 16, 2026 at 11:31 AM

The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft is flying at more than 26,800 mph (12 kilometers…

A UFO hunter claims to have found an alien base 10 miles below the ocean’s surface, off the coast of South Australia, but NOAA explains why those giant lines may not actually exist

A UFO hunter claims to have found an alien base 10 miles below the ocean’s surface, off the coast of South Australia, but NOAA explains why those giant lines may not actually exist

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October 16, 2026 at 10:16 AM

Scott C. Waring, who runs the blog UFO Sightings Daily, posted a seafloor map on…