A corked jug from the 17th-century Palmhout wreck near Texel, in the Netherlands, showed something metallic on X-rays, but archaeologists opened it and found bird feathers, and no one knows why
A sealed jug recovered from a 17th-century shipwreck near the Dutch island of Texel has delivered a surprise. X-ray images suggested something metallic inside,…..
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China has tested a flying wing built to carry more than 800 passengers with an 85-meter span wider than an A380, and the real obstacle is not the aircraft but the airports that would have to park it
Chinese researchers have tested a small wind-tunnel model representing an aircraft concept that could carry…..
Germany built a “flying train” above a crowded river valley in 1901 because there was barely any room left on the ground, and 125 years later the eight-mile suspended railway still carries more than 80,000 passengers every day
Germany’s “flying train” is not a futuristic proposal waiting for approval. Wuppertal’s Schwebebahn opened to…..
One unpermitted truck load hit six Oklahoma bridges in a single trip, and the mistake cost nearly half a million dollars
An unpermitted truck hit six Oklahoma bridges in one trip, costing $491,700 and exposing gaps in route planning.
A 46-foot robot boat found a distress beacon off Plymouth, and its steady hull may matter more to navies than hydrogen
Built to test hydrogen power, ACUA’s Pioneer vessel runs on diesel instead, since hydrogen lasts 18 days at sea versus 50 on diesel.
Houston built a 26-lane freeway to beat traffic, but the cars came back and exposed the trap behind wider roads
Houston spent nearly $3 billion widening a freeway to 26 lanes, but induced demand brought traffic back within years.
Union Pacific’s Big Boy crossed America at 1.2 million pounds, and the diesels behind it were not secretly doing the work
Union Pacific’s 1.2-million-pound Big Boy crossed America in 2026, with trailing diesels only assisting, never driving it.
Energy
The world’s southernmost wind farm uses just three turbines to help power U.S. and New Zealand research bases in Antarctica, cutting diesel consumption by about 122,000 gallons a year and preventing an estimated 1,242 metric tons of CO₂ emissions despite operating in one of Earth’s harshest environments
On a frozen ridge of Ross Island, three wind turbines turn above American McMurdo Station and New…..
Nearly 5,000 solar panels were installed on a Swiss dam 8,200 feet above sea level, and despite deep snow and freezing temperatures the Alpine plant produced 3.8 times more winter electricity per unit of capacity than a lowland installation during its first measured year
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Scientists mapping a shipwreck off Queensland found 300 holes up to 26 feet wide spread 328 feet around it and suspect fish dug them, a pattern that once helped CSIRO find a ship lost for 74 years
Roughly 300 holes surrounding a shipwreck off Queensland, Australia, are offering a striking lesson in…..
Scientists hid fruit in a box and taught 16 Asian elephants in Thailand to reach around it, then moved the opening and found they could drop a habit that no longer worked, though older ones took longer
Asian elephants can abandon a familiar way of reaching food when it stops working, according…..
On Japan’s Tsushima Island, researchers found leopard cats with short tails and feared domestic cats had crept into their family tree, but genome tests of 16 animals found no trace of that ancestry
An unusually short tail can be a small detail with serious consequences for an endangered…..
Scientists filmed a bottlenose dolphin calf handling a seashell just three minutes after its mother used the same shell while hunting, offering a rare clue that this unusual fishing technique may be passed between generations, although researchers say the brief encounter does not yet prove the calf learned it from its mother
Scientists off Australia’s Queensland coast have filmed bottlenose dolphins using empty seashells as fishing tools……
An Australian stick insect people had photographed for years only now received its own scientific name, and researchers also found a rainforest species whose eggs carry rings never seen before
A large Australian stick insect familiar to scientists and insect enthusiasts has finally received its…..
More than 120 years after Marie Curie’s experiments, some of her laboratory notebooks remain radioactively contaminated, but France’s national library says visitors behind glass receive essentially no additional radiation while the originals require strict handling controls because radium-226 has a half-life of about 1,600 years
More than 120 years after Marie Curie’s pioneering experiments, some of her laboratory papers still…..
Environment
A Tennessee solar farm is testing cattle beneath moving panels, using a special “grazing mode” to create safer clearance for cows and calves while still generating enough electricity for roughly 500 homes, a commercial test of whether farming and solar power can truly share the same land
Ten cows and their calves helped put a different kind of solar farm in the spotlight this…..
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