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A water-harvesting jacket developed at the University of Texas can collect up to 900 millilitres a day from ambient air, but the captured moisture still has to be heated b…

Reports of a Swiss materials lab's prototype jacket that harvests close to a litre of drinking water per day from ambient ...
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A tiny crustacean called Cymothoa exigua enters a fish through the gills, severs the tongue, and then attaches itself in the tongue's place, functioning as a working ...

Cymothoa exigua, a small marine crustacean, enters fish through the gills, severs the tongue, and attaches to the stump — ...
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Saudi Arabia, a country that is roughly 95 percent desert, imports sand from Australia to make concrete, because wind-rounded desert grains are too smooth to bind and …

"content":"Saudi Arabia sits on the largest continuous sand sea on Earth, the Rub' al Khali, an ocean of dunes roughly the ...
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Psychology says the hardest part of retirement isn't boredom — it's that for the first time in your adult life nobody needs you to be anywhere at any specific time and yo…

For forty years, you complained about it. The 8:30 meeting. The schedule. The phone that wouldn't stop. Being needed in six ...
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A grid-scale battery ferry roughly 130 metres long is now crossing the Río de la Plata between Argentina and Uruguay carrying about 2,100 passengers on charge alone, …

A 130-metre catamaran built by Incat in Tasmania is now crossing the Río de la Plata between Argentina and Uruguay carrying 2 ...
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Why does a deep-water shark in the Arctic routinely live past 400 years while spending almost all of that time functionally blind and moving barely faster than a …

Radiocarbon dating of eye lenses shows Greenland sharks can live nearly 400 years, growing one centimetre annually in ...