A South African farmer planted trees to stop erosion in 1976; 50 years later, the land became a major forest-restoration experiment

A small planting on a South African farm in 1976 was meant to solve an immediate problem: stopping floodwater from washing away soil and threatening livestock. The spekboom cuttings survived, but ...

Maine buried 20,000 old tires beneath a road and they helped against frost damage. Now engineers are exploring them for walls, highways and more

In an innovative engineering experiment, shredded tires were utilized in road construction, effectively tackling both ...

Lake Michigan looks calm from shore, but a 2013 11 kg of red dye experiment revealed its hidden waters can spread far faster than scientists expected

A 2013 dye experiment in Lake Michigan revealed that water in the lake’s open interior can spread surprisingly quickly. Researchers traced a fluorescent dye plume for hours and found that near-surface ...
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Lightbridge Secures Access to Idaho National Laboratory's Advanced Test Reactor Loop Facility to Irradiate Clad Lightbridge Fuel™ Rodlets Under Prototypic Commercial Reactor ...

Lightbridge Corporation ('Lightbridge” or the 'Company”) (Nasdaq: LTBR), an advanced nuclear fuel technology company, today announced that it has entered into Project Task Statement (PTS) No. 2 under ...

Singapore covered a reservoir with 122,000 floating solar panels; it now powers 5 water-treatment plants and cuts 32,000 tonnes of CO₂ every year

Singapore has turned part of a reservoir into a giant renewable-energy installation, covering about one-third of Tengeh ...
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A Low-Plastic Diet Has Detectable Impacts on Urine Levels Within a Week, New Experiment Shows

Plastic is virtually unavoidable in 2026, but there may be ways to reduce your exposure to some of its associated chemicals.
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Scientists Create a New Form of Ice at More Than 2,000 °C

Scientists have now demonstrated one of the weirdest forms of ice yet – under preposterous pressures up to 2.3 million ...