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A solar farm in the Gobi Desert put the ground into permanent shade, and scientists found heat flowing the wrong way while water crept sideways beneath the panels

A solar farm in the Gobi Desert put the ground into permanent shade, and scientists found heat flowing the wrong way while ...
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Three floating turbines went up 12 miles off Portugal, and eight years of monitoring found more octopuses, rays, and sole inside the no-fishing wind farm than in the wa…

Eight years of monitoring at Portugal's WindFloat Atlantic project found higher abundance of octopus, rays, sole, and species ...
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An 11 year old found part of a giant jawbone on a Somerset beach, and the animal it came from was still growing when it reached an estimated 82 feet

An 11-year-old found a 6-foot fossil jawbone on a Somerset beach, and scientists say the creature it belonged to may be the ...
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On the North Sea a grain ship running at 9 knots tore a hole the size of a barn door in its bow against a wind turbine, and the machine it hit was back making power ab…

A cargo ship on autopilot at 9 knots hit a North Sea wind turbine and opened the bow below the waterline. Here's what the ...
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Hurricane Karina reaches 145 mph as forecasters map its uncertain five-day reach across the Pacific while the powerful Category 4 storm shows no signs of weakening

Hurricane Karina reaches 145 mph as forecasters chart its uncertain path across the Pacific. Discover the forecast insights ...
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A robot pill the size of a large vitamin swims through a stomach on 6 water jets while a doctor steers it with a game controller, and after $21 million it still cannot be use…

The robot pill works, in the sense that it swims and it sends pictures, as trade coverage has tracked for years.
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Smuggled for decades in Los Angeles, 48 ancient Egyptian artifacts are finally heading home and they’re just the latest in a growing wave of returns

Discover the return of 48 ancient Egyptian artifacts to Egypt after decades in LA, highlighting a growing trend in cultural ...
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Hanford biologists thought an unusual buck had wandered onto the nuclear reservation, until the photos showed the antlers belonged to a doe

Hanford biologists thought an unusual buck had wandered onto the nuclear energy reservation, until the photos showed the ...
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Fifteen volunteers spent 40 days in a French cave with no clock and no daylight, and when they came out most of them put the count at about 30 days while one man sa…

French cave without clocks. They emerged convinced only 30 days had gone by. Here's what their bodies were doing.
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Operators pointed 347,000 motorized mirrors at three towers in the Mojave for a decade, and the flat panels they were built to beat make power for roughly a third o…

The Ivanpah solar plant covered 5 square miles of Mojave Desert with 347,000 tracking mirrors, then regulators blocked its ...
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Operators in Oskarshamn took a 1,400 megawatt reactor offline after the cooling water screens stopped passing water, and what had packed them solid was a wall o…

Jellyfish clogged the cooling intake screens at Sweden's Oskarshamn nuclear plant and forced a full shutdown of its 1,400 MW ...
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September may still feel like midsummer across the Southern Plains, while Alaska’s Brooks Range gets ready for the season’s first taste of snow

Parts of the Southern Plains could continue experiencing summerlike heat into September, while northern Alaska's Brooks Range ...