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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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SWOT maps widespread eddies along Antarcticas coastal seas

Scientists using the Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite have detected strong and widespread mesoscale eddy activity in Antarctic coastal waters, giving researchers their clearest view yet of ...