Light bulb that has burned since 1901 has outlasted three webcams watching it
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Sep 25, 2026
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A decade of explosive tech expansion has left Ireland's power grid serving server farms more than all its rural homes combined, forcing uncomfortable questions about growth versus sustainability.
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The world's first webcam spent a decade watching a coffee pot in a Cambridge lab
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Cheese brine waste becomes Wisconsin's secret weapon against icy roads
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17-year-old built a $100 earthquake detector that warns LA seconds before shaking hits
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Arizona's rubber highway coating cuts freeway noise by 11 decibels
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By Science Blog Editorial Team · Sep 23, 2026
Teen's plastic recycler runs 45% more efficiently than rival home machines
By Lab Report · Sep 22, 2026
12-year-old builds working Braille printer from $350 Lego kit
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Teen invents dissolvable tags that could transform plastic recycling
By Ainura Kalau · Sep 22, 2026
DNA molecules competed to solve a 100-bit computation in a salt water droplet
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Offshore wind turbine blades now longer than a football pitch
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