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They modeled solar roofs over all 3.2 million kilometers of the world’s highways, and the panels would stop 150,000 deaths a year, something almost no one expects from a road

Picture every interstate you have ever driven in America: the long flat stretches through Nevada, the elevated ribbons over Houston, the foggy corridors of the Appalachians. Now picture all of that ...
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This giant ‘sunflower’ follows the Sun with 360 rotating solar panels while creating shade for fish beneath the water

This giant ‘sunflower’ follows the Sun with 360 rotating solar panels while creating shade for fish beneath the water. It's ...
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‘Frankenstein organisms’ and ‘crystal supercells’ are among 31 new species discovered after marine biologists sent a robot into one of the least-explored parts …

Marine scientists discovered 31 new species, including “Frankenstein organisms,” after sending a robot into one of the ...
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Henry Ford bought 2,000 acres of Michigan riverbank to build a bird sanctuary, then raised the largest factory on Earth there instead, and a century later 10 acres of that ...

Ford has just left its famous Glass House headquarters near Detroit after nearly seventy years, moving staff into a brand new ...
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At night, these turbines made the local temperature rise. By day, everything returned to normal because of a strange effect we still barely understand

At night, these turbines made the local temperature rise. By day, everything returned to normal because of a strange effect ...
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Sailors called it a sea serpent and ran from it for 2,000 years, and the ribbon-bodied silver giant they were really seeing lives in a twilight world almost no camera has ev…

For 2,000 years sailors fled it as a sea monster. The giant oarfish is real, it's 36 feet long, and scientists barely know it ...
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Termites cost American homeowners over 5 billion dollars a year, more than fire and floods combined, but the tiny factory inside the pest can turn one sheet of paper int…

Americans spend $5 billion a year fighting termites, but the tiny insect's gut is a hydrogen factory so efficient it's ...
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They tested 20 molecules in the air of a planet 124 light years away and thought one was the smell of an alien ocean, until other teams reran the data and 87 percent of t…

That sharp, briny smell is not the salt, it is a gas made by life, breathed out by tiny ocean creatures too small to see. For ...
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America’s first wind turbine: one man bolted 144 wooden blades onto a 60 foot tower in his own backyard in 1888, and it powered his mansion for two decades before the world ...

In the summer of 1887, the grandest street in Cleveland watched a strange tower rise behind one of its mansions. Neighbors traded rumors all season, some guessing a Tower of Babel, others a private ...
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A backyard tower goes up in rural Ohio promising to cut the electricity bill in half, and the thing that moves in around its base is turning into something no one in the clea…

Home wind turbines are being pitched as the next solar panels, but the science of what happens when one goes up reveals a ...
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Americans spend billions on dyed mulch for a tidy garden bed, but one study found 18 of 22 recycled wood mulch samples leaked arsenic into the soil, and the robins p…

Dyed mulch fills millions of American garden beds, sold as tidy and long-lasting. But the recycled wood underneath the color ...