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With 9.2 million tons of glass missing American recycling bins each year, a Chicago bar program closed the loop in about two weeks

Only one third of glass put out for recycling in the US actually gets recycled. Here's where 9.2 million tons of glass ...
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A 672 metric ton wooden church in Kiruna rolled three miles on two transporter trains held within 3 inches of level, and its bell tower followed six days later

The route through Kiruna had been widened and compacted for months before anything moved. Test runs first. Counterweights ...
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Cape Hatteras lighthouse had only 120 feet of sand left between its base and the ocean, so crews rolled the 4,830-ton brick tower 2,900 feet on rails lubricated with b…

The ocean had been patient for more than a century. When the Cape Hatteras lighthouse was completed, the Atlantic was a ...
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Twenty four volunteers lay tilted head down for 60 days in a German research ward, and daily centrifuge spins left their hearts and aerobic fitness unprotected while spa…

Lying with the head six degrees lower than the feet sounds almost comfortable, but it tricks every system in the body at once ...
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A contaminated ham omelette loaded in Anchorage sickened 196 passengers on a transatlantic jumbo jet, and the two pilots who skipped it kept the cockpit healthy s…

The breakfast tray looked the same in seat after seat. Ham and omelette, prepared in an airline catering kitchen in Anchorage ...
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Grenache vines at a 3,660 square foot pilot in southern France ripened a week later under tilting panels, and a tasting panel found the shaded wines consistently fruitie…

Season after season, tasters working through glass after glass on an expert sensory panel landed on the same verdict. The ...
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Mapped across 14 red seaweed species on coastlines worldwide, a shimmering blue and turquoise color comes from nanoscale layered structures that solar engineers w…

Standard solar panels convert about a quarter of incoming light. A red seaweed's nanostructured cells do better — and ...
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Canada approved the first three tidal power stations in a six-machine plan for the Bay of Fundy, and each one is designed to arrive like a towable boat before being ancho…

Canada approved three tidal power stations for the Bay of Fundy, where towable turbines will harness some of Earth's ...
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The Pacific Northwest’s cold-water conveyor usually begins shutting down around late September, and NOAA is already watching the 2026 coast make its seasonal tur…

The Pacific Northwest’s cold-water conveyor usually begins shutting down around late September, and NOAA is already watching ...
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A container ship tied up at a California dock shed 95 boxes over the side, and the clean-air barge alongside it was damaged badly enough to spill its own fuel into the harbor

Long Beach harbor during unloading. Here's the physical sequence, the oil sheen, and what investigators are stil ...
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Scientists filmed 1,044 animal encounters around a tidal turbine in Washington, and only four fish actually struck the spinning blades while every seal and seabird record…

Scientists filmed animal encounters around a tidal turbine in Washington, and only four fish actually struck the spinning ...
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Workers removed, cleaned and relaid 2 million bricks inside a disused Chelsea power station that once burned 700 metric tons of coal a day, and the riverside shell now holds ...

Stand at the base of a chimney in Chelsea and look straight up. The shaft climbs 275 feet above you, and daylight reaches the bottom through a glass cap, a pale disc the width of a dining room. The ...