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A solar plant 11, 000 feet above sea level in Tibet unexpectedly extended winter by 50 days after freezing the ground beneath it
50+ min ago (611+ words) A Tibetan Plateau-based solar plant is altering the environment. Its position at 11, 000 feet above sea level means the thousands of panels overlook fragile alpine ecosystems. The arrays are operating as they should, sending clean power to communities below. But they're…...
A floating wind turbine can now hide a 10 megawatt AI data center inside its underwater legs, cooled by the cold sea, and the first one is going in off Norway to prove servers can run where the wind blows
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (734+ words) For more than a century, a wind turbine had one job, to turn moving air into electricity. Engineers now want the same towers to do a second job that modern life is starting to depend on. It has nothing to…...
Scientists discover a lost continent linking South America and Antarctica and name it "Antarctandes" after finding a rare dinosaur fossil
2+ hour, 51+ min ago (576+ words) A scientist examining an ancient fossil unearthed in Antarctica made a surprising discovery during a research expedition. They didn't just find a dinosaur but raised questions about which continents in the Southern Hemisphere were previously connected through land. A tiny…...
A mantis shrimp the size of your thumb throws the fastest punch in nature, 2, 000 times the acceleration of a 330 mph dragster, and it moves so fast the water flashes to vapor and cracks aquarium glass
16+ hour, 56+ min ago (757+ words) Picture a machine that goes from a dead stop to 100 miles per hour in less than a single second. Not a sports car, not a rocket sled, a wheeled machine on a strip of asphalt with a person strapped inside....
Bees have spent millions of years perfecting the hive. Now they've taught engineers how to build a better solar panel
18+ hour, 51+ min ago (584+ words) Solar panels love the direct midday sun, but they're not fans of angles. It's a flaw that energy engineers have been trying to work around since the invention of the first panel. When the sun's rays become more oblique, the…...
They cracked open a cave sealed for a million years and found a flightless parrot, a ghostly rail, and birds that New Zealand had quietly erased from its skies long before humans arrived
16+ hour, 51+ min ago (510+ words) A cave on New Zealand's North Island sat undisturbed for over a million years, its floor sealed between two layers of volcanic ash. When paleontologist Trevor Worthy's team began sieving the sediment, they pulled out 21 bone fragments representing 12 bird species…...
Explorers ventured into one of Africa's most remote regions and came back with a glowing blue spider no one expected to find
20+ hour, 50+ min ago (590+ words) A number of maps show that large areas of the Earth are uninhabited. That does not mean there are no people. Often, those inhabiting these areas go unnoticed because little, if any, attention has been paid to them. The same…...
Greenland lost 105 billion tonnes of ice last year, and the dark grey stain spreading across what remains is running a feedback loop that most forecasts still undercount
18+ hour, 56+ min ago (778+ words) Something changed in the summer of 2025, and satellites caught the whole thing from above. Greenland's ice sheet, the largest in the world outside Antarctica, turned grey. Not all of it, not all at once, but enough that scientists tracking it…...
A hula-hoop-shaped sensor dangling beneath a helicopter is now scanning what lies hidden miles beneath Wyoming and Colorado
22+ hour, 51+ min ago (588+ words) Helicopters don't usually fly 100 to 200 feet above the ground " low enough to startle a herd of cattle, low enough to read a road sign. But that's exactly what's happening over Wyoming and northern Colorado, where aircraft are skimming the landscape…...
Tomorrow before sunrise, look up: the thin crescent Moon will form a rare cosmic triangle with bright Pleiades and orange Mars
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (609+ words) Just before dawn tomorrow, an unusual sight will appear high above the eastern horizon. The Moon, Mars, and the bright star Aldebaran will play a starring role. Unfortunately, most people will likely sleep through it. Those who wake up early…...