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A floating dome made from charred tire scraps pulls nearly a gallon from Halifax Harbour each day, which costs less than a cent per quart

A clear plastic dome rides the gray chop of Halifax Harbour. Underneath it sits a scrap of foam, coated black. Nobody fed it ...
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DNA sampling found 113 fish species in China’s Jialing River, but 14 hydropower dams marked a stretch of increasingly uniform aquatic life

DNA sampling identified 113 fish species in China’s Jialing River, but 14 hydropower dams were linked to increasingly similar ...
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Torgrim Reitan, the chief financial officer behind a giant 810 megawatt offshore wind farm with 54 empty foundations off Long Island: “This is a bit later than planned”

The bottleneck is a set of American built tugs and barges whose delivery ran late, in the way that a Brooklyn terminal or a ...
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Tiny plastic pellets spilled along the Texas coast turn up in Mexico roughly 120 days later, and the ones that arrive look nothing like the ones that left

Plastic pellets spilled off the Texas coast reach Mexican beaches in about 120 days, and their changing color reveals exactly ...
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Resting pulses of volunteers housed under a Minnesota football stadium fell from about 55 beats a minute to roughly 35, and their hearts shrank while they walked 2…

Volunteers in a famed wartime study saw resting pulses drop from 55 to roughly 35 beats a minute as their hearts shrank, ...
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In 2020, Japan brought home a piece of an ancient asteroid and scientists just found all five “letters” of life written inside it

Discover how Japan's Hayabusa2 mission returned pieces of asteroid Ryugu, revealing the five nucleobases essential for life.
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A hydropower dam beside a northern Finnish city stopped three times in 15 hours, and about 4,900 acre feet of released water pushed slabs of river ice into a downto…

Three shutdowns in 15 hours sent record releases of water and ice into a downtown Oulu park, and regulators say the dam's ...
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Scientists tracked bat deaths at 19 Iowa wind farms and found higher estimated fatalities at turbines along the outer edges

Bat fatalities at 19 Iowa wind farms were higher at edge turbines, with local habitat features, weather, and turbine ...
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A black hole was thought to only grow or swallow, but now physicists say the fastest-spinning ones might actually tear themselves apart

Explore the groundbreaking theory suggesting black holes can split under extreme conditions, challenging long-held physics ...
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A telescope in Chile captures Betelgeuse’s clearest companion image yet, revealing a possible star two to three times the Sun’s mass

A telescope in Chile captured the clearest image yet of Betelgeuse’s possible companion, a star about 2.6 to 3.1 times the ...
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A pulse of heat zapped shredded wind turbine blades to 3,632 degrees Fahrenheit in seconds, and 0.3 percent of the leftover powder made fresh resin 27 percent stiffer …

A split second electrical pulse turns shredded wind turbine blade waste into silicon carbide and graphene, making resin ...
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Eight years of surveys around three floating wind turbines off Portugal recorded over 270 marine species, with fish becoming more abundant inside the protected area

Eight years of monitoring around floating wind turbines off Portugal recorded more than 270 marine species, with fish ...