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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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How does a single tree colony in the American West cover roughly 106 acres and share one root system, making it arguably the heaviest living organism ever measur…

Pando, a single quaking aspen colony in Utah's Fishlake National Forest, covers 106 acres as roughly 47,000 genetically ...
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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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What happened when engineers built a single dam across the neck of a dying inland sea, and the northern lobe rose roughly four metres while fish returned to villages t…

The Kokaral Dam, a 13-kilometre earthen barrier completed in 2005 across the neck of the Aral Sea, raised the North Aral by ...
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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 ...
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Artemis mission approaches lunar loop for first flyby since 1972

The Artemis astronauts entered the final phase of their run-up to a lunar loop on Monday, a tipping point of sorts that means the Moon's gravity is now having a stronger pull on the spacecraft than ...
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Corvus Energy powers the world's first electric commercial fishing vessel

Corvus Energy is pleased to announce a Corvus ESS with a Siemens BlueDrive PlusCmarine propulsion system will power the Selfa Elmax 1099 electric fishing boat. The 11 metre electric vessel will have a ...
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Keeping the lights on during extreme cold snaps takes investments and upgrades

Polar vortexes. Hurricanes. Wildfires. With climate change making extreme weather events more frequent and intense, it is getting harder to keep the lights on and HVAC systems running. As a power ...