New York demolished all seven turbines at its pioneering Madison wind farm in just 30 seconds after 25 years of operation, but a proposed neighboring project with nearly seven times the capacity now has its grid-connection application listed as withdrawn
Seven turbines at New York’s first commercial wind farm came down in controlled blasts in Madison County on September 17, 2025. The demolition at…..
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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
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New York demolished all seven turbines at its pioneering Madison wind farm in just 30 seconds after 25 years of operation, but a proposed neighboring project with nearly seven times the capacity now has its grid-connection application listed as withdrawn
Seven turbines at New York’s first commercial wind farm came down in controlled blasts in Madison County…..
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Scientists put rats through 10 weeks of treadmill exercise and found the nerve hubs controlling their hearts changed in opposite ways, with roughly four times as many neurons on the right while cells on the left grew nearly twice as large
Ten weeks of moderate aerobic exercise reshaped nerve clusters that help control the heart in…..
Scientists compared 87 human skulls spanning multiple Homo lineages and found that our bigger brains and smaller faces may not have emerged through a steady evolutionary push, but through long periods of anatomical stability interrupted when biological and environmental constraints finally loosened
Why did our ancestors develop bigger brains and smaller faces? A study published July 6,…..
Bowhead whales can live for more than 200 years despite weighing up to 200,000 pounds, and scientists found their cells repair dangerous DNA breaks unusually well, with one protein even improving DNA repair in human cells and extending lifespan in fruit flies
Bowhead whales can live beyond 200 years without appearing unusually prone to cancer, and researchers…..
Singapore plans to plant 1 million additional trees by 2030, and research suggests well-placed shade could cut outdoor heat stress by 3°C to 5°C while models show trees may reduce summer air-conditioning energy use by 6% to 9% in humid cities
Singapore’s effort to plant a million more trees could deliver more than greener scenery. Research…..
Researchers followed 260 Finnish children for eight years expecting more screen time to signal weaker thinking skills, but by age 15 those reporting greater use actually showed better overall cognitive performance, although the study could not prove screens caused the difference
Does another hour on a tablet automatically mean a child’s thinking skills are slipping? An…..
Researchers fitted five Australian magpies with GPS trackers to map their movements, but within an hour the birds began helping one another remove the harnesses, turning a failed tracking experiment into an unexpected observation of cooperation and problem-solving
Researchers hoping to map the movements of five Australian magpies watched their experiment unravel when…..
Environment
A juvenile humpback whale in Alaska was trapped by two 800-pound crab pots anchored to the seafloor, and after five hours rescuers made four carefully placed cuts that freed the animal to swim away, although a piece of rope remained threaded through its mouth
A juvenile humpback whale near Alaska’s Endicott Arm was tethered to the seafloor by two commercial crab…..
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