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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 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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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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How did a Central American country smaller than West Virginia go from barely one-fifth forest cover to trees covering more than half its land in a single generation?

"content":"Costa Rica, a country of roughly 51,100 square kilometres wedged between Nicaragua and Panama, has gone from losing forest faster than almost anywhere on Earth in the 1980s to having ...
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A bowhead whale killed off Alaska in 2007 had likely carried a brass bomb-lance fragment in its shoulder since around 1890, evidence of a failed whaling strike more than a ...

In 2007, Iñupiat whalers off Alaska recovered a bowhead whale carrying the tip of a bomb lance manufactured in New Bedford between 1879 and 1885 — an accidental archive of an animal that had survived ...
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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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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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How did a captured wartime rocket, fired straight up from a New Mexico desert range in 1946, return the first photograph of Earth taken from above the atmosphere?

On October 24, 1946, a 35mm cine camera bolted into a captured V-2 rocket at White Sands climbed 65 miles above New Mexico and returned the first photograph of Earth taken from above the atmosphere — ...
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PSE Supports Emerging Energy Research And Education Programs

Puget Sound Energy (PSE) has announced that it has awarded $45,000 to continue to support the energy efficiency efforts of two local nonprofit educational organizations: the Environmental Education ...