Earth & Environment
In 2001, Germany's Rheinbraun needed to move its bucket-wheel excavator Bagger 288, a machine 225 meters long and 96 meters tall, some 22…
By Ainura Kalau · Sep 2, 2026
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Earth & Environment
Between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago, the Mediterranean underwent a colossal drawdown that deposited salt layers kilometres thick—then…
Sep 2, 2026
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In 2006, the retired aircraft carrier USS Oriskany was sunk in 212 feet of water off the Florida Panhandle after being stripped of fuel and…
By Ainura Kalau · Sep 2, 2026
Life
Greenland sharks can live so long that the oldest may have been swimming when the First Fleet reached Australia
Sep 2, 2026
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A Swedish silver mine that stopped digging in 1908 once rented out one bedroom 509 feet underground, reached by the old miners' lift, where…
Sep 2, 2026
Earth & Environment
Researchers detected 245 largely uncatalogued seismic events near the ocean edge of Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier, most likely glacial…
Sep 2, 2026
Earth & Environment
In 2016, engineers in Ukraine slid a curved steel arch weighing 36,000 tons, taller than the Statue of Liberty and wide enough to cover the…
By Ainura Kalau · Sep 2, 2026
Life
A single female elephant seal was fitted with a depth logger and sent back to sea, and it turned out she was diving more than a mile…
By Kiran Journals · Sep 1, 2026
Earth & Environment
In 1998, engineers in northern England trucked a 200-ton steel sculpture called the Angel of the North to a hilltop above a motorway in…
By Ainura Kalau · Sep 1, 2026
Technology
Diamond was classed as non-piezoelectric for more than a century—but HKU researchers have now bent ultrathin polycrystalline diamond…
Sep 1, 2026
Life
An unknown human lineage interbred with our ancestors in Africa more than 50,000 years ago
Sep 1, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Adults aged 40 and older completed an executive-function test 12% faster after running a HEPA air purifier at home for one month…
Sep 1, 2026
Earth & Environment
The only way rescuers could get 12 boys and their coach out of a flooded Thai cave was to sedate them first
Sep 1, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Delaware dropped 714 retired New York subway cars into the Atlantic 16 miles offshore
By Daniel Moran · Sep 1, 2026