A Patagonian sheep ranch that once held 40,535 sheep is now home to one of Argentina’s main Magellanic penguin colonies, and the twist is that the birds were already nesting there while the flocks grazed down their cover
A Patagonian sheep ranch on Argentina's Atlantic coast counted 40,535 sheep in 1920. Today that land forms the core of Monte León National Park in Santa Cruz province. Argentina's National Parks Administration reports more than 40,000 breeding pairs…
Rome built a public housing block nearly 3,300 feet long to work like a small town, and the floor meant for its shops turned into improvised homes that workers are still rebuilding
Rome built a public housing block nearly 3,300 feet long in Corviale, on the city's outskirts, between 1975 and 1982. The Italian…
Tarmac estimates that road asphalt with worn-out tires, first tested on Britain’s M1 motorway, could take up to 1,200 per mile, and the carbon savings turned out to depend on more than the rubber
Worn-out tires went into the surface of Britain's M1 motorway in 2019, on a southbound stretch near Leicester. Highways England, now National…
US landfills received about 10.5 million tons of yard trimmings in 2018, and naturalists say the fall leaves many people bag and throw away are winter shelter for fireflies, moths, butterflies and native bumblebees
Americans generated 35.4 million tons of yard trimmings in 2018. That is the most recent year in the Environmental Protection Agency's materials…
A 15-year-old in Canada built a body heat flashlight with no batteries, big companies tried to license it for 8 years, and the reason she passed is not what you would expect
In 2013, 15-year-old Canadian Ann Makosinski won her age category at the Google Science Fair with a body heat flashlight. The light…
Gentoo penguins were long treated as a single species, and genomes have now split them into four, including a look-alike on remote Indian Ocean islands that had never been formally named
Gentoo penguins, long treated as one species, are in fact four, according to a study published in Communications Biology on April 23,…
A jazz guitarist who sweeps city rooftops for micrometeorites with a magnet handed scientists three specks of space dust, and in the lab they helped grow cell-like bubbles
Three micrometeorites swept from rooftops around Oslo, Norway, have helped scientists grow cell-like lipid bubbles in the lab. The grains came from…
Some children growing up around England’s medieval lead mining nearly 1,400 years ago absorbed as much lead as kids in Industrial Revolution cities, and the people buried with weapons carried far less
Children growing up around medieval lead mining in England's Peak District were taking in heavy doses of lead by the mid-600s. That…
A black hole 12,000 light-years away is aiming a jet at Earth, and astronomers calling it the Milky Way’s first microblazar suspect its invisible twin jet is behind some of the galaxy’s most energetic particles
Astronomers have identified what they call the Milky Way's first microblazar, a black hole about 12,000 light-years away that fires a jet…
Two Sumatran rhinos at an Indonesian sanctuary are pregnant at the same time, with fewer than 50 left in the wild, and one of the mothers was born there herself
Two female Sumatran rhinos at the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary in Indonesia's Way Kambas National Park are pregnant. Both are due in May…
Museum workers dug up a reptile’s bones beside a road in southern France in 1997, and they turn out to belong to a freshwater mosasaur whose bones were too heavy for walking on land
A freshwater mosasaur about 8.2 feet (2.5 meters) long lived in a lake in southern France roughly 84 million years ago, a…
A railroad wanted one perfect photo of its new train, so a Chicago photographer built the world’s largest camera, weighing 1,400 pounds, and to dust its glass plate someone had to walk inside it
On a spring morning in 1900, Chicago photographer George R. Lawrence pointed the world's largest camera at a passenger train parked in…
The Humongous Fungus has quietly spread through 2,385 acres of Oregon forest soil, and the honey mushrooms it pushes up each fall barely hint at the tree-killer hiding below
The Humongous Fungus is a single honey fungus living under the Malheur National Forest in eastern Oregon. It covers an estimated 2,385…
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A German submarine that sank off Denmark in 1917 still holds more than 4,400 pounds of TNT, and the mussels scientists caged on the wreck show it is already leaking
A German submarine that sank off Denmark's Rømø island in 1917 is leaking TNT into the North Sea. Aarhus University announced the…
Gentoo penguins were long treated as a single species, and genomes have now split them into four, including a look-alike on remote Indian Ocean islands that had never been formally named
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A jazz guitarist who sweeps city rooftops for micrometeorites with a magnet handed scientists three specks of space dust, and in the lab they helped grow cell-like bubbles
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Some children growing up around England’s medieval lead mining nearly 1,400 years ago absorbed as much lead as kids in Industrial Revolution cities, and the people buried with weapons carried far less
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Museum workers dug up a reptile’s bones beside a road in southern France in 1997, and they turn out to belong to a freshwater mosasaur whose bones were too heavy for walking on land
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Wetlands alerta del escaso peso que tiene la naturaleza en la COP31: proteger ecosistemas exige dinero
La naturaleza en la COP31 necesita protagonismo y financiación: Wetlands International cuestiona el arranque de Antalya mientras Brasil impulsa una …
Una batería de hierro-aire se oxida a propósito para dar electricidad hasta 100 horas seguidas, y un acuerdo con Google quiere llevar a Minnesota la mayor anunciada hasta ahora
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La falta de hielo ha dado la vuelta en menos de una década al Agua Intermedia Antártica, y la última vez que esa capa del océano cambió de rumbo fue hace unos 130.000 años
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WWF exige cerrar la pesca de anguila, incluida la angula, tanto para el consumo como para las actividades acuícolas y …
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A Patagonian sheep ranch that once held 40,535 sheep is now home to one of Argentina’s main Magellanic penguin colonies, and the twist is that the birds were already nesting there while the flocks grazed down their cover
A Patagonian sheep ranch on Argentina's Atlantic coast counted 40,535 sheep in 1920. Today that land forms the core of Monte León…
US landfills received about 10.5 million tons of yard trimmings in 2018, and naturalists say the fall leaves many people bag and throw away are winter shelter for fireflies, moths, butterflies and native bumblebees
Americans generated 35.4 million tons of yard trimmings in 2018. That is the most recent year in the Environmental Protection Agency's materials…
Two Sumatran rhinos at an Indonesian sanctuary are pregnant at the same time, with fewer than 50 left in the wild, and one of the mothers was born there herself
Two female Sumatran rhinos at the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary in Indonesia's Way Kambas National Park are pregnant. Both are due in May…
The Humongous Fungus has quietly spread through 2,385 acres of Oregon forest soil, and the honey mushrooms it pushes up each fall barely hint at the tree-killer hiding below
The Humongous Fungus is a single honey fungus living under the Malheur National Forest in eastern Oregon. It covers an estimated 2,385…
Tens of millions of bison once roamed North America and fewer than 1,000 were left by the 1890s, while Yellowstone’s herd fell to about two dozen animals before growing back to nearly 5,300 in 2025
Before the mid-1800s, 30 to 60 million bison may have roamed North America. Most lived on the Great Plains, according to the…
Scientists flooded a Maryland forest with 80,000 gallons of salty water in a single day, and the first signs of a ghost forest appeared in the soil before the trees showed a clear response
Scientists in Edgewater, Maryland, soaked a coastal forest with about 80,000 gallons (303,000 liters) of brackish water in a single day. The…
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The Soviet Union sank a nuclear submarine with its fuel still aboard about 100 feet down in the Arctic, and the material sealing its reactors has a lifespan no one can pin down
The Soviet nuclear submarine K-27 has rested about 100 feet (30 meters) down in Stepovogo Bay since September 1981. The bay cuts…
New Zealand’s largest power station just switched on a grid-scale battery that can power 60,000 homes for two hours, and the second one is already budgeted for less
Genesis Energy officially opened a grid-scale battery at Huntly Power Station, on New Zealand's North Island, on October 15. The 100-megawatt system…
Finland is pouring 100 million gallons of water into an old gravel pit to build the world’s largest pit heat storage, and the summer warmth it saves will heat homes in winter
Hyvinkää, a Finnish city of about 47,000 people north of Helsinki, is filling a former gravel pit with roughly 100 million gallons…
A bladeless wind turbine that sways in the wind could safely produce 460 watts in computer simulations, and the most efficient design turned out not to be the most powerful
Computer simulations from the University of Glasgow suggest that a bladeless wind turbine with a mast just 31.5 inches (0.8 meters) long…
Chemists are turning ammonia into pure hydrogen at 482°F, far cooler than standard cracking, and the trick is using electricity to pull the gas through a palladium membrane
Chemists at MIT have found a way to turn ammonia into pure hydrogen at 250°C (482°F). Their device uses electricity to pull…
Heat pump vs furnace: Maine’s 2026 fuel survey priced heat pump warmth at roughly $31 to $32 per million Btu against $13 to $25 for piped gas, so the furnace still wins in gas homes while propane, oil and baseboard households save
Heat pump vs furnace isn't a fair fight in a gas home in Maine, and the furnace is the one winning it:…
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Tarmac estimates that road asphalt with worn-out tires, first tested on Britain’s M1 motorway, could take up to 1,200 per mile, and the carbon savings turned out to depend on more than the rubber
Worn-out tires went into the surface of Britain's M1 motorway in 2019, on a southbound stretch near Leicester. Highways England, now National…
Taipei cut its old Zhongshan Bridge into 435 pieces to make room for floodwaters, and two decades later the city still has not settled where to put it back together
Taipei's old Zhongshan Bridge has now spent more than 23 years in 435 pieces. City crews cut the 1933 concrete arch bridge…
The BelAZ 75710 dump truck hauls 450 metric tons on eight tires, and the record mining giant still runs on diesel, with two 16-cylinder engines making power for its electric motors
The BelAZ 75710, built by the Belarusian manufacturer BELAZ, is rated to haul 450 metric tons in a single load. That is…
Over the Atlantic in 2001, Air Transat Flight 236 lost power to both engines and glided about 75 miles for roughly 19 minutes, and all 306 people aboard survived a hard landing in the Azores
An airliner running out of fuel over the ocean sounds like a situation with no way out. Yet on August 24, 2001,…
New Mexico’s Sceye flew a solar-powered stratospheric airship about 18,600 miles to Japan and back in about a month and used it to beam calls and video to ordinary smartphones from more than 54,000 feet
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Cologne tested a curb charger that hides a 22-kilowatt EV socket inside a standard-size curbstone, logging 2,829 charging sessions with over 99 percent availability, and installation still cost about the same as a charging post
Four curb chargers on Klosterstrasse and Dürener Strasse in Cologne logged 2,829 validated charging sessions in 329 days and were available more…
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Un mecánico italiano rescató del desguace un viejo Fiat Panda, lo dejó en 50,2 centímetros de ancho y ya es el coche más estrecho del mundo, aunque en las curvas tiene un problema
El mecánico italiano Andrea Marazzi figura en el libro Guinness con el coche más estrecho del mundo. Se trata de …
Unos mineros dejaron dos escombreras negras en el norte de Francia, su ayuntamiento peleó por conservarlas y hoy crecen allí más de 260 tipos de plantas gracias, en parte, al calor que guarda la piedra
Las escombreras negras de Loos-en-Gohelle, en el norte de Francia, perdieron su función cuando la mina 11/19 cerró en 1986. …
Unos químicos calentaron tuberías, tarjetas y ranas de juguete a 70 °C y convirtieron el PVC en lubricante de alto rendimiento, y sus cuentas dependen del precio del aceite y de un ingrediente que no es plástico
Un equipo de Virginia Tech, en Estados Unidos, ha convertido PVC en lubricante sintético con una reacción a 70 °C …
Estados Unidos enterró un reactor de 240 megavatios bajo un montículo de hierba en Nebraska y ahora tiene que regarlo, segarlo y vigilarlo, porque lo que queda dentro seguirá siendo radiactivo durante siglos
Un reactor de 240 megavatios lleva enterrado desde 1969 bajo un montículo de hierba en Hallam, Nebraska. El Departamento de …
Un niño masái desmontó la radio de su madre, ahuyentó a los leones a los 11 años con luces intermitentes y una batería de coche, y los científicos detectaron que las fieras cambiaron de táctica
Un niño masái de Kitengela, junto al Parque Nacional de Nairobi, en Kenia, inventó con 11 años unas luces intermitentes …
Unos ingenieros cambiaron parte de la arena del hormigón por pañales usados triturados, y en la casa de 36 metros cuadrados que diseñaron casi todo el residuo acaba en un solo sitio
Unos investigadores de la Universidad de Kitakyushu, en Japón, calcularon cuánta arena del hormigón se puede cambiar por pañales usados …
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Farmers in Australia are spreading recycled glass fertilizer made from empty bottles, its maker relays a farm manager’s claim of lower inputs, and its own savings figures are still being confirmed
Farmers in Australia are spreading recycled glass fertilizer on paddocks, orchards and cattle pasture. The company's website relays a Victorian farm manager's…
Rome built a public housing block nearly 3,300 feet long to work like a small town, and the floor meant for its shops turned into improvised homes that workers are still rebuilding
Rome built a public housing block nearly 3,300 feet long in Corviale, on the city's outskirts, between 1975 and 1982. The Italian…
A railroad wanted one perfect photo of its new train, so a Chicago photographer built the world’s largest camera, weighing 1,400 pounds, and to dust its glass plate someone had to walk inside it
On a spring morning in 1900, Chicago photographer George R. Lawrence pointed the world's largest camera at a passenger train parked in…
The Curiosity rover has been stamping the same Morse code message into Martian soil since 2012, and the three letters hidden in its tracks help it check how far it has really traveled
NASA's Curiosity rover has been printing the letters JPL in Morse code into Martian soil since its first test drive on August…
Three Soviet cosmonauts remain the only people known to have died in space, and the Soyuz 11 capsule carrying them touched down softly in Kazakhstan while ground controllers heard only silence on the radio
Soyuz 11 touched down in Soviet Kazakhstan on June 30, 1971, after a record 24-day mission. When recovery crews opened the hatch,…
Bacteria brewed the sulfuric acid that freed more than half the copper in discarded circuit boards in 7 days, and the microbes themselves never had to touch the scrap
Bacteria grown at Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran, Iran, made the sulfuric acid that dissolved 53.6 percent of the copper in powdered…
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A 9-year-old boy touring a Polish castle spotted a 400-year-old silver coin on his own, and heritage officials say what looks like pocket change can still show how ordinary people paid
A nine-year-old boy visiting Czersk Castle, south of Warsaw, found a silver coin struck in 1624. The office of the Mazovian Provincial…
Workers digging a kitchen foundation in Massachusetts found the Marblehead Hoard, 82 gold and silver coins from nine countries, and its top piece, a 1764 Mexican gold coin, was estimated at up to $10,000
Workers digging a new kitchen foundation in Marblehead, Massachusetts, uncovered the gold and silver coins now known as the Marblehead Hoard. Numismatic…
Two amateur archaeologists found 141 Roman gold coins in a field in Luxembourg, and beneath them, they also discovered a fortification that had been buried for more than 1,600 years
Two amateur archaeologists prospecting a plowed field near Holzthum, a village in northern Luxembourg, set off a find that ended with 141…
In 1988, a treasure hunter discovered a ship loaded with gold that had been sunk since 1857, but he ended up spending more than 11 years behind bars over 500 coins whose whereabouts remain a mystery
Finding a sunken fortune sounds like the end of a treasure hunt. For American engineer Tommy Thompson, it became the beginning of…
A miner pushing dirt with a bulldozer near Ruby, Alaska, in 1998 spotted something unusual, and it turned out to be the state’s largest gold nugget, a 294.1-troy-ounce mass that later sold for $750,000
In 1998, Barry Clay was pushing dirt with a bulldozer on a placer claim along Swift Creek, near the Yukon River village…
Someone laying a patio in northern Denmark dug up the country’s largest known Viking silver hoard, 18.5 kilograms of bracelets, bars and coins, and one bar is scratched with a runic word experts have never seen before
"It was only supposed to be a couple of hours of hard yard work," the finder said, translated from Danish. The job…
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Paul Newman gave land near his Connecticut home to his town, and the 39-acre nature preserve that opened after his death is the only public memorial his family approved
Actor Paul Newman gave land near his home in Westport, Connecticut, to the town. That gift became part of a 39-acre nature…
A 15-year-old in Canada built a body heat flashlight with no batteries, big companies tried to license it for 8 years, and the reason she passed is not what you would expect
In 2013, 15-year-old Canadian Ann Makosinski won her age category at the Google Science Fair with a body heat flashlight. The light…
The Soviet Union forced more than 100,000 prisoners to dig the White Sea-Baltic Canal with picks and wheelbarrows, and the waterway that cost thousands of lives ended up too shallow for most seagoing ships
More than 100,000 Soviet prisoners dug the White Sea-Baltic Canal between 1931 and 1933. Working with picks, shovels and homemade wheelbarrows, they…
France emptied Lake Guerlédan and 2 million people walked into the valley hidden beneath it, and what they found was not the drowned village many stories describe
In April 2015, French energy company EDF finished emptying Lake Guerlédan, the largest reservoir in Brittany. The drawdown let engineers carry out…
Czech cave divers swam 115 feet down into flooded tunnels beneath the Moravian Karst, and they now believe they have found the spot where an underground river is born
Czech cave divers exploring the Punkva, an underground river in the Moravian Karst, say they have probably found the spot where it…
An archaeologist in Iceland found a battered suitcase 2 years after scientists left it on the Arctic sea ice, and its memory card held something they had never been able to confirm
An archaeologist in northern Iceland found a battered gray suitcase near the farm Hafnir, on the Skagi peninsula. Norwegian researchers had put…
