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 WindRunner, a 356-foot cargo aircraft designed to…..
A Modesto porch hid a pug mother and two cow-spotted puppies, but California heat made the rescue urgent
Wind turbine blades are built to survive storms for decades, but Sweden is testing how to take them apart afterward
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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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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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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…..
A rare metal has traced the dinosaur-killing asteroid beyond Jupiter, and the discovery narrows a 66-million-year-old mystery
Ruthenium isotopes reveal the dino-killing asteroid formed beyond Jupiter, confirming its cosmic origin 66 million years later.
Heat flowed from cold to hot in a quantum experiment, and the reason was not free energy but information
A photonic experiment shows quantum ordering lets a system extract heat while doing useful work, aiding future chip cooling.
A Queensland fossil preserved an ichthyosaur’s last meal, but the hunter soon became food for something even larger
Scans of a 100-million-year-old ichthyosaur fossil show it ate a pterosaur before a giant Kronosaurus attacked it.
Scientists say we have seen less than 0.001% of the deep seafloor, and the unknown part is bigger than the map suggests
70 years of submersible dives have directly observed less than 0.001% of the deep seafloor, study finds.
Environment
Bee hotels were supposed to help pollinators, but a Toronto experiment found wasps were checking in first
A 2015 Toronto study found bee hotels mostly housed wasps, not native bees, raising doubts about their real benefit.
Argentine ants formed a supercolony across Portugal, Spain, France and Italy, linking nests across roughly 3,700 miles
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A Modesto porch hid a pug mother and two cow-spotted puppies, but California heat made the rescue urgent
