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A blade spinning on a lab bench is woven from bamboo and grown fungus, and engineers say roughly 95 percent of it can be composted

UC Davis engineers wove bamboo and mycelium into a compostable wind turbine blade, then spun it on a test rig at 800 RPM.
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Bleached corals on the brink of death came back to life after a brief “handshake” with their healthy twins

Discover how a surprising interaction between bleached and healthy corals offers new hope for reef recovery amidst rising ...
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Radar tracked 1.7 million migrating birds over Switzerland’s Gotthard Pass as tailored turbine shutdowns reduced downtime without increased collisions

Radar tracked 1.7 million migrating birds over Switzerland’s Gotthard Pass as tailored turbine shutdowns reduced downtime ...
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A mountainside above a fjord south of Juneau dropped more than 80 million cubic yards of rock into the water, and the wave it raised climbed 1,580 feet up the opposi…

A landslide into Alaska's Tracy Arm fjord sent water 1,580 feet up a mountainside, and the sloshing lasted 36 hours.
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A floating platform in Nova Scotia swings any of its 4 rotors clear of the water, so a lobster boat and a slack tide replace the dive team a seabed turbine would need

A floating tidal platform in Nova Scotia lifts its four rotors clear of the water, letting a small boat handle repairs divers ...
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A westbound freight spilled hundreds of tons of soybeans across a mountainside by Glacier National Park, so crews fenced and wired the slope against grizzlies

A soybean train derailed near Glacier National Park, and the fermenting spill kept drawing grizzly bears to the tracks for ...
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Astronomers found a “second heartbeat” inside a distant galaxy and now believe two giant black holes are racing toward each other

Astronomers discovered two giant black holes in galaxy Mrk 501 racing toward collision, revealing a second jet of particles ...
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Thirty migrating monarchs in Wisconsin received solar-powered tags that nearby smartphones can detect during their journeys

Solar-powered tags and smartphone detections are revealing migration routes that remained hidden between the start and end ...
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A recliner spun for 24 hours on a Pennsylvania centrifuge arm at double gravity, and the scientist riding inside came out extremely fatigued but able to walk and talk

A scientist rode a spinning centrifuge arm at double gravity for 24 straight hours near Philadelphia, testing if a body could ...
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A lab scale wave energy buoy rides a 342 foot indoor wave channel in Oregon, and devices like it convert only a small fraction of the wave power sweeping past them

A test buoy at Oregon State reveals wave energy converters capture far less power from passing waves than most people assume.
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Two 100 ton rotors fold upward on a floating turbine moored off Orkney, so a small workboat can reach them without a heavy lift ship

Off Orkney, a 680 ton floating tidal turbine lifts its own rotors out of the sea, avoiding heavy lift ships for 4 straight ...
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Mars keeps its moons like “sealed letters” and a spacecraft launching this year may finally open them

Discover how Mars' moons, Phobos and Deimos, hold secrets about our solar system's history. A new mission aims to unlock these mysteries with samples.