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Moss concrete spread over a bare wall goes fully green in about 12 weeks, and the same wall left alone would have waited decades for the first patch to appear

Time softens it. Carbon dioxide works into the surface, turns that calcium hydroxide into calcium carbonate, and walks the pH ...
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For 6 cents a square foot a green slurry can coat a bare slope, and grass breaks the surface within a week where bare seed would sit for a month

The spray is a slurry, mixed in the truck's tank and pumped out under pressure. Into the water go grass seed, a thick wad of ...
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Around 5,000 stones went into the sea off Belgium with oyster larvae already settled on them, and every one of them was rock that an offshore wind farm was going to …

Engineers are seeding oyster larvae into the scour-protection rocks around offshore wind turbine bases in the North Sea, ...
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They taped a square of aluminum foil over the stain and came back 2 days later, and the face the water had beaded on told them whether to call a builder or open a win…

Tape a 12-inch square of aluminum foil to a damp wall for 48 hours and check which side is wet. The answer tells you whether ...
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They climbed onto a ship’s rudder in Lagos after midnight and waited 15 hours for the engines to start, and 14 days later a police dinghy pulled up beside them off th…

Four stowaways rode a cargo ship's rudder 3,500 miles across the Atlantic, surviving 14 days in the stern cavity before ...
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A farm in Maine hung baskets of oysters from a floating conveyor belt that brings them up into the sun to clean them and then submerges them again

A Maine oyster farm is testing a floating system that moves oyster baskets through the water and lifts them into the air to ...
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Crews counted just 12 extremely rare plants in the Mojave Desert before installing millions of solar panels, and when scientists returned, they found 93

Crews counted just 12 extremely rare plants in the Mojave Desert before installing millions of solar panels, and when ...
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For the second time in 20 years, a telescope caught a star’s dying “first breath” and found it had been quietly suffocating its own explosion

Astronomers witness a star's dying breath, revealing unexpected silence and new insights into supernova events. Discover the ...
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Americans toss out about 12 million tons of furniture a year, and the old sofas leading the pile are so fused together that barely a scrap of them can be recycled

Americans throw out a staggering amount of furniture, about 12 million tons of it in a single recent year. Roughly four ...
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Illinois has pulled 17 dams out of its rivers in five years, and after one of them came out of the Vermilion a sturgeon nobody had recorded in that stretch turned up the …

Nine dam removals freed 100+ miles of Illinois rivers, fish species jumped 6% in one year, and a sturgeon appeared where none ...
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A 4,000 ton steel bridge rolled through a Hamburg neighborhood overnight on 1,088 wheels, and in places it had 16 inches of clearance from the walls of the buildings it …

Then the lamp brackets came off, and steel plates went down over the roadway, because the thing that was about to come ...
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More than 13,000 feet above Hawaii, 100 kW of solar panels power a telescope by day so it can observe the universe after dark

More than 13,000 feet above Hawaii, solar panels help power a mountaintop telescope while revealing an unexpected benefit of ...