Engineers in Northern Ireland piled about 73,000 pounds of concrete onto a footbridge whose main beams were cut from retired wind turbine blades, and the span never failed under load
NOV 13, 2026
Rubin Observatory glanced at a tiny “corner” of the sky and uncovered two galaxies hiding in plain sight around the Milky Way
Astronomers have spent decades cataloging the Milky Way’s neighborhood — and they’re still missing most of it. Perched on a mountaintop in the Chilean Andes, the newly operational Vera C.…
A 242-kW solar canopy in Switzerland shelters apple, pear and apricot trees with movable panels and nets against hail, rain and frost
NOV 13, 2026
Divers and course crews working a cove in California’s Carmel Bay recovered 50,681 golf balls from the seafloor, and researchers estimate nearby courses lose more than 100,000 balls to the water every year
NOV 13, 2026
01A 242-kW solar canopy in Switzerland shelters apple, pear and apricot trees with movable panels and nets against hail, rain and frostNOV 13, 202602Norway’s Fosstveit hydropower plant tests a narrow-barred escape route for migrating eels, with every tracked fish surviving downstream passageNOV 13, 202603Broccoli grown under 2 shades of magenta tinted solar panels in Sweden reached nearly full head weight, but took 25 extra days and used light far more efficientlyNOV 13, 202604Feathers from 871 dead birds at California energy sites reveal most solar-farm victims had migrated from elsewhereNOV 13, 2026
Copperhill, Tennessee watched the Ocoee River crest just over 18 feet, a few inches above a record that had stood thirty six years, and swift water crews pulled 68 people from flooded streets on the Tennessee side
NOV 12, 2026
Ocean “snow” falls through the dark in silence, but scientists just discovered what decides how much carbon it buries forever
NOV 12, 2026
Vega Island’s skull-shaped glaciers are losing their “face”, and scientists say a warmer Antarctic winter is to blame
NOV 8, 2026
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Rubin Observatory glanced at a tiny “corner” of the sky and uncovered two galaxies hiding in plain sight around the Milky Way
NOV 13, 2026
An enigmatic gas rising from Alba Mons fractures hints at a still-beating volcanic heart hidden deep inside Mars
NOV 12, 2026
Hubble’s ancient star cluster portrait reveals that some of our galaxy’s oldest “building blocks” may have been stolen from neighboring galaxies
NOV 11, 2026
01A floating dome made from charred tire scraps pulls nearly a gallon from Halifax Harbour each day, which costs less than a cent per quartNOV 10, 202602A 3D-printed bottle cap changes color when loosened, revealing whether it is sealed without batteriesNOV 8, 202603MIT’s transparent light-guiding circuits kept working after repeated bending, opening possibilities for flexible electronicsNOV 7, 202604A sixteenth century merchant ship found resting 8,422 feet beneath the Mediterranean off Saint-Tropez is the deepest wreck ever documented in French waters, and modern litter sits among its five hundred year old cargoNOV 7, 2026
A crab boat ran hard aground beneath cliffs holding a million nesting seabirds, and by summer about 45,000 gallons of its fuel had washed into the sea
NOV 13, 2026
A fox hid aboard a car carrier for 14 days and crossed 3,400 miles of winter Atlantic, and it arrived in New York carrying a lung parasite from home
NOV 10, 2026
A rollover spilled a full truckload of corn into a central Kansas ditch, and deputies warn the grain will pull deer toward the highway for days
NOV 9, 2026
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