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Scientists built a panel that turns seawater into drinking water with nothing but sunlight, and instead of toxic brine it hands back table salt and the metal inside you…

A University of Rochester team built laser-etched black metal panels that turn seawater into drinking water with zero toxic ...
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A houseplant millions of Americans already own barely cleans the air at all, but scientists found a way to turn it into something that rivals a machine

A Paris biotech firm rewired the common pothos plant with engineered bacteria, making one plant clean air as well as 30 ...
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It looks like a pile of sticks no one would ever buy, and millions sit in US streams right now, but scientists ran the numbers on what they are actually worth

Beaver dams look like random debris, but scientists have calculated their true dollar value in flood control, clean water and ...
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Across 124 British solar farms, surveyors kept spotting the same large animal racing between the panel rows, a creature that has all but vanished from the open fields ar…

Just after dawn, a solar farm in the English lowlands is almost silent. Long rows of dark panels stretch across the grass, ...
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A truck hauling a blade the length of a Boeing 747 inches through a Colorado mountain town at midnight, and the giant machine waiting to replace that convoy i…

Wind turbine blades are now so long they can barely squeeze through US roads. The wild solution engineers built to fix that ...
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Three divers died guessing what it was, and the World War II submarine they found off New Jersey was never supposed to be there

Divers uncovered a WWII submarine off New Jersey that puzzled investigators, as its location did not match historical records ...
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A buoy off the Florida Keys read 101 degrees in the water, and the scientists watching it had to throw out the scale they trusted

A 101°F ocean reading in the Florida Keys triggered the worst coral bleaching event in history and forced NOAA to invent ...
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The ocean current that keeps US winters mild has been sliding north for decades, and scientists say it is trying to tell us something no one expected

The Gulf Stream has been slowly drifting north near Cape Hatteras — and scientists say that movement is a hidden warning ...
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Yellowstone’s wolf count just fell to its lowest in years, and the $82 million secret it keeps is forcing economists to rethink what a predator is really worth

Yellowstone's wolf population just dropped to 84. The $82 million economic secret these predators carry is reshaping how we ...
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A wall of amber lights crept past at 3 a.m., and what it left behind on the empty highway has road scientists rethinking everything

That slow convoy blocking traffic isn't just moving massive machines. Science reveals what happens to the road behind it — ...
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NASA considered building a nuclear power plant on the Moon, but is now betting on a far stranger energy source hidden beneath the Earth’s surface

Discover NASA's innovative regenerative fuel cell system designed to keep astronauts powered during the Moon's two-week ...
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A robot sat across the table from professional athletes in Tokyo and did something no machine had ever managed before, and it learned nothing from watching humans

Sony AI's Ace robot defeated professional table tennis players in Tokyo — and the eeriest part is how it learned: never by ...