They thought this husky was inside her cage until they looked up and discovered her “escape plan”
When workers at Richmond Animal Care & Control entered the kennel area, they expected to find Maya waiting behind the gate. Instead, the 5-year-old…..
A new Cardiff-led study says the inductive effect is mostly limited to one bond in neutral organic molecules
Bee hotels were supposed to help pollinators, but a Toronto experiment found wasps were checking in first
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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
Energy
Radia is designing a 356-foot cargo plane with a 261-foot wingspan to carry 344-foot wind turbine blades where trucks cannot go, then land on a 6,000-foot dirt runway built beside the wind farm instead of a conventional airport
What happens when a wind turbine blade outgrows the roads to its destination? Colorado-based Radia is developing…..
Wind turbine blades are built to survive storms for decades, but Sweden is testing how to take them apart afterward
The wind changed before reaching a North Sea wind farm, and lasers caught the slowdown almost two miles away
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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…..
Scientists in Colorado gave animals a single experimental injection and reported signs of osteoarthritis reversal within four to eight weeks, with the treatment releasing medicine for months and human trials now targeted for 2028
An experimental injection helped reverse osteoarthritis in animals within four to eight weeks, according to…..
Finland is still rising from the sea more than 10,000 years after the last ice age, exposing roughly 1,730 acres of new land each year, but homeowners may discover that the new ground appearing beyond their waterfront property legally belongs to someone else
Finland’s western coast is still rising from the sea, exposing dry ground thousands of years…..
A new Cardiff-led study says the inductive effect is mostly limited to one bond in neutral organic molecules
A Cardiff-led study finds the inductive effect may stop after one bond in neutral molecules, challenging a century-old chemistry rule.
Scientists found the jaw and teeth of an unknown ape that lived in Egypt 17 to 18 million years ago, and its unexpected place near the roots of living apes is challenging the long-held focus on East Africa in the search for our ancient evolutionary family
What can a few fossilized teeth tell us about our family tree? A newly identified…..
Environment
Natural grass acts like a “sponge,” while artificial turf can repel up to 58% of the water
Rain rarely behaves the same way on a living lawn and a plastic one. In a controlled…..
Bee hotels were supposed to help pollinators, but a Toronto experiment found wasps were checking in first
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They thought this husky was inside her cage until they looked up and discovered her “escape plan”
A Modesto porch hid a pug mother and two cow-spotted puppies, but California heat made the rescue urgent
