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Sixty magnetic profiles flown across the Arctic's Gakkel Ridge in 1974 and 1975 classify about 68 percent of the seafloor they cross, from…
Sep 3, 2026
A recycling operation in Louisiana grinds discarded glass into sand and used 50 tons of it in burlap sacks to build a 300-foot berm along…
Sep 3, 2026
A single gene on chromosome 7 of a wild tomato lets modern hybrids grow under 24-hour light and yield up to 20% more fruit
Sep 2, 2026
Australia’s highest mountain rises just 2,228 metres—less than half the height of Mont Blanc—yet cold fronts sweeping north from the…
Sep 2, 2026
In 1972, Florida dumped somewhere between 1 million and 2 million old tires off Fort Lauderdale to build what was billed as the world's…
By Ainura Kalau · Sep 2, 2026
Australia is the fastest-moving continent on Earth, shifting seven centimetres north-northeast each year—almost twice as fast as your…
Sep 2, 2026
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
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
Researchers detected 245 largely uncatalogued seismic events near the ocean edge of Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier, most likely glacial…
Sep 2, 2026
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
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