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Arizona fossil reveals previously unknown 209-million-year-old flying reptile from North America

Discover North America's oldest pterosaur, *Eotephradactylus mcintireae*, and a lost Triassic world filled with unique ...
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Cape Hatteras lighthouse rode 2,900 feet inland on rails greased with bar soap, and restoration crews later found 116 cracks in the 16 iron brackets hidden under maso…

Gradual erosion eventually cut the original 1,500 foot buffer down to roughly 120 feet, and public debate followed, with many ...
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With 4,200 vehicles stacked across its decks, a car carrier rolled onto its side less than 40 minutes after leaving a Georgia port, and investigators found nothing broken on ...

A 656-foot car carrier left Brunswick, Georgia with 4,200 new vehicles and capsized in under 2 minutes. The cause was a ...
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Fifteen Dutch solar farms quietly turned their fenced panel fields into very different kinds of wildlife real estate, with hedgehogs and hares treating them as refuges whil…

Fifteen Dutch solar farms quietly turned their panel fields into different kinds of wildlife real estate, with hedgehogs and ...
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Bacteria grew 8 grams of silk from a single liter of culture, and the protein that solved the yield problem came from a mussel, not a spider

A St. Louis engineer fused mussel foot protein to spider silk genes and grew 8 grams of fiber from one liter of bacteria — ...
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One 170-foot wind turbine blade dissolved in a lab yielded new blade material, plexiglass, diaper absorbent and food grade potassium lactate that a chemist then a…

A Michigan State team built a wind turbine blade resin that dissolves into clean glass fiber, plexiglass, diaper polymer, or ...
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A volcano knocked out power to one of America’s most famous climate stations, so NOAA is rebuilding its Mauna Loa outpost to survive off-grid with solar panels, batt…

NOAA is restoring Mauna Loa Observatory with solar power and battery storage after a volcanic eruption cut off access and ...
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At a 255,000 square foot plant in northwest Georgia, worn solar panels arrive by the truckload and are stripped for silver, copper and glass, with the recovered glass ...

A recycling plant in Cedartown, Georgia is processing thousands of old solar panels per week and turning their glass into raw ...
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Six volunteers sealed inside a windowless mock spacecraft in Moscow for 4 months had lost significant body fat by the halfway point, and their blood carried markers o…

Six volunteers sealed in a Moscow chamber for 120 days lost body fat and showed metabolic changes by day 63 — driven not by ...
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A solar road built into a Normandy departmental highway was rated for 280 megawatt hours a year, but measured barely half that in its first full year and kept fa…

The road out of Tourouvre-au-Perche looked almost ordinary at first glance. The surface ran a shade darker than the tarmac ...
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A railway bridge over the River Lune in northwest England was closed to all traffic for about 90 minutes in the middle of the night, and 32 passenger and freight services r…

It showed Carlisle Bridge cracked open, sections of the structure apparently collapsed into the River Lune below. About an ...
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Volunteers sealed inside a windowless Cologne habitat for 100 days walked back out on August 1, and what their sleep, cognition and microbiome did across those months has not ...

Six volunteers emerged from a sealed Cologne habitat on August 1 after 100 days inside. Their sleep, cognition and microbiome data is now being analyzed f ...