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Water boils at 202 degrees in Denver because there is a mile less air pressing on the pot, and a concrete building in eastern Washington takes that much further, boiling ...

That principle is doing serious work on one of the most contaminated sites in the country. In the middle of the Hanford Site ...
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A 164-foot concrete rotor turning in the tide makes no electricity at all. A federal lab opened its hub and found a bearing and nothing else, because the only two genera…

A small Dutch company decided that the housing is the expensive part. In July it lowered a scale model of its alternative ...
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Somebody threw stones at the only Koenigsegg Gemera in Denmark while it sat outside a Copenhagen hotel with doormen on the street all night, smashing windo…

We just saw the first-ever Koenigsegg Gemera on the streets of Denmark. Unfortunately, the windshield was smashed.
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A French startup has spent six years on a nuclear reactor with no turbine, no generator and no grid connection, a 131-foot box running helium at 1,382 degrees …

Almost every reactor you have ever seen a photograph of was built to make electricity. Steam hits a turbine, the turbine ...
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Toyota and Honda Build Three Quarters of Canada’s Cars. A 50% Tariff Hits Them in January, and the CR-V and RAV4 on the Lot Were Built on the Wrong Side of the Border

Toyota and Honda building over 75% of Canada's cars suddenly makes a proposed 50% tariff feel less like a trade spat and more like a direct missile aimed at two of America's most trusted brands.
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A 57-foot drone boat has been mapping 420 square miles of Norwegian shelf, 20 days at a stretch, driven over satellite from a room in Aberdeen, and the company t…

Most of the drone boats that make the news are small enough to tow behind a pickup. Ten feet, maybe thirty, a solar panel on ...
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A 26-foot borer cut 1.1 miles under a Queensland coal mine in 1,000 hours, came up to the surface in one piece and sat there for eleven years, and it is going back dow…

Add the two drives together and you get 1.1 miles of finished tunnel. A thousand hours is about six weeks of round-the-clock ...
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A 584-foot machine named Donna Maria weighs 1.5 million pounds, cuts a face only 16 feet across, and goes in 130 feet under Munich below the water table, and the 1.…

Big tunneling machines get names, and cities tend to make a small event out of it. Munich narrowed more than 1,000 public ...
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A 268-pound torpedo would come off a bomb rack at 60,000 feet, pop its wings, glide to the target area on its own and only turn into a torpedo when it hits the water — 59,900 ...

The Navy just quietly posted a request that could make the entire way submarines hide from aircraft obsolete — and it fits in a bomb rack. Silent Anvil is designed to drop from 60,000 feet and spend ...
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A mako shark with a sensor bolted to its dorsal fin sends a temperature profile up from under the Atlantic for $296, a robot glider charges $1,875 for the same readin…

So a team at the University of Delaware has spent this summer bolting sensors onto the dorsal fins of mako sharks and sending ...
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A 15.6-pound drone the size of a toaster oven doubled how many reef survey runs a NOAA program finished in a day, and the American government had to file a public …

The sensor list is the actual engineering story. Underwater there is no GPS, so an autonomous vehicle has to know where it is ...
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An 86-ton borer has cut the hole that will take a 27-ton canister of spent nuclear fuel, 27.6 feet deep and 5 feet 9 inches wide in granite that formed 1.9 billion years ago ...

Finland just drilled what may be the most precisely controlled hole in human history — and the tolerance they're holding in solid granite will make any engineer's jaw drop. The canister has 14 inches ...