A dog with a pink collar wandered alone into a Dollar Tree, and employees soon noticed something wasn’t right when he started bumping into the shelves
A dog wearing a bright pink collar wandered into a Dollar Tree in San Antonio, Texas, without anyone accompanying him. At first, he seemed…..
Mobility
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.
Stanford researchers paired seismometers with infrasound microphones to capture hurricane forces near the surface, offering a new data stream for forecasting storm intensity without waiting for landfall
When Hurricane Isaac barreled over Louisiana in 2012, it pressed down on the Earth so hard that sensors built for earthquakes felt the
Energy
Sweden imported 3.86 million metric tons of other countries’ waste in 2024 and gets paid to burn it for heat and electricity, but the system still releases fossil CO2 and is not the same as recycling
Sweden has found a way to earn money from a problem other countries pay to remove. Waste…..
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Technology
Science
A drug first developed for spinal cord injuries reduced DNA damage and brain inflammation in mice with Alzheimer’s, and because it already passed a safety trial in 109 people, researchers believe it could reach patients faster
An experimental drug first developed for spinal cord injuries has reduced DNA damage and signs…..
A fossil collected in Antarctica in 1985 sat in a museum drawer for 40 years labeled as a marine reptile, until scientists took another look and discovered the four-inch bone belonged to a 20-foot titanosaur that lived roughly 82 million years ago
How does the first dinosaur bone ever collected in Antarctica spend four decades inside a…..
Ancient DNA from Belgium and France suggests Europe’s last Neanderthals were not isolated, inbred groups slowly dying out, and none of their genomes show recent modern human ancestry even though our species had already arrived in the region
Ancient DNA from Belgium and France challenges the idea that Neanderthals faded away as isolated,…..
South Korean women born in 1996 were about 20 centimeters taller on average than those born in 1896, the biggest gain recorded for women worldwide, and researchers say childhood nutrition and living conditions explain more than genes
South Korean women recorded the largest increase in average adult height among women in a…..
In 1976, a NASA intern bought 1,150 videotapes for $218, and three of them turned out to hold Apollo 11 Moon walk footage that sold for $1.82 million
In June 1976, a young engineering student named Gary George walked into a government surplus…..
A U.S. clinical trial tested a liquid painted onto toddlers’ cavities for just 10 seconds without drilling, injections or sedation, and six months later it had stopped 54% of the treated decay, although the damaged part of the tooth permanently turned black
Few sights worry a parent faster than a toddler facing a dental drill, a numbing…..
Environment
A wind turbine blade broke off Nantucket in 2024 and scattered fiberglass on the beaches, Vineyard Wind now alleges 66 of its 72 blades had bonding flaws, and two years later the federal investigation still has no end date
A turbine blade failure about 15 miles off Nantucket on July 13, 2024, sent fiberglass and foam…..
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