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390 MW molten salt nuclear reactor to power US Army's Maryland base

The US Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland is set to host a 390 megawatt (MW) Generation IV molten salt nuclear plant.

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Glencore sank a shaft 8,530 feet under Ontario from the bottom of a mine it closed in 2009, and put five lithium-ion locomotives and 23 battery machines down there so it would not have to pump cooled ...

You've heard every version of the battery argument that exists at street level. Range, charging times, what the grid can handle, whether the truck weighs too

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In 1948, Oregon buried geothermal pipes beneath a steep section of US 97 to melt three inches of snow an hour; the system operated for nearly 50 years before its iron pipes corroded

In the winter of 1948, a steep stretch of road in Klamath Falls, Oregon, became a test site for geothermal energy. Instead of relying on ploughs, salt or other conventional methods, engineers embedded...

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In a Cold War communications experiment in 1963, the US Air Force released 480 million copper needles into orbit, each just 1.8 centimetres long — the tiny pieces spread into a ring around Earth so ra...

Project West Ford tested a sparse ring of copper dipoles as a passive radio relay. Only part of its 480-million-needle payload dispersed individually, leaving a complicated legacy.

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The Navy rewired a destroyer from 450 volts to 4,160, dropped in generator sets making 4 megawatts apiece and a bigger chilled-water plant to carry the heat away, and every bit of that exists to feed ...

The Navy just made a claim you don't hear from the Navy very often: one of its newest destroyers can do the air and missile defense work of two of its older

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Why Does Rain Eat Through Protective Coatings on Metal Structures? Researchers Propose a New Idea: Electrically Charged Droplets

Scientists long attributed rain damage to physical abrasion and chemical degradation from acidic substances. A new study offers a third idea, which could help researchers develop longer-lasting coatin...

smithsonianmag.com

ICE Boycott List 2026: Companies to Avoid That Support ICE

Updated 2026 list of companies supporting ICE. Interactive map + sources included. Learn how these banks, tech companies, and other corporations are backing ICE.

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In 2010, Idaho released fluorescent dye into a well near Malad Gorge to map hidden groundwater routes; later tests traced it through domestic wells up to 3.1 miles away

In 2010, scientists poured fluorescent green dye into a domestic well in southern Idaho and tracked its underground movement. The experiment near Malad Gorge State Park showed that groundwater could m...

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In 2025, researchers fired clay bricks with 10% eggshell waste; thermal conductivity fell 50%, turning food waste into a more insulating building material

Researchers discover that adding 10% eggshell waste to fired clay bricks significantly reduces thermal conductivity by 50%, transforming food waste into an effective insulating building material. This...

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In 2009, Iceland drillers hit 1,000°C magma by accident, unlocking a geothermal source that could produce nearly 10 times more power

In 2009, a drilling operation in northeast Iceland unexpectedly punched into molten rock at Krafla, revealing one of the hottest geothermal resources ever reached by a borehole. The Iceland Deep Drill...

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A 1-megawatt reactor rode a flatbed out of a Los Angeles suburb, crossed more than 1,000 miles of interstate, and now has to go critical, reach full power and run 150 hours untouched inside an 80-foot...

Nuclear plants get built where the concrete gets poured, and then they stay there for forty years. You need a river or a coastline, a cooling system, a decade

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In 2025, a US startup blasted hard rock with high-voltage pulses and made it 10 times more permeable; now it is testing ‘underground lightning’ beneath a Massachusetts horse farm to make hydrogen

What if the rocks beneath our feet could one day be turned into a giant hydrogen factory, not by drilling up an existing fuel reserve, but by sending controlled bursts of electricity deep underground?...

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An 865-megawatt coal hall in Tennessee is being handed to two machines that generate nothing, one spinning to steady the grid, one firing frozen hydrogen pellets into a plasma to prove the magnets hol...

The machine those patents are pointed at is the part worth your attention. It is going inside the turbine room of a Tennessee coal plant that made its last

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​Sweden Develops a 1,000-km Cruise Missile Engine in Less Than a Year That Is ITAR-Free and 3D-Printed | Defense Express

Swedish aerospace company GKN Aerospace has developed a compact, ITAR-free turbojet engine for Project Otto, a long-range UAV demonstrator capable of carrying up to 300 kg over 600 km or 100 kg over 1...

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The world banned CFCs and put the ozone layer on a path to recovery. Now thousands of dying satellites are introducing aluminium oxide nanoparticles into the upper atmosphere — particles scientists wa...

Satellite reentries are adding alumina nanoparticles to the upper atmosphere. The ozone-depletion pathway is credible, but current models disagree sharply on its scale.

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Exclusive: Inertia Enterprises finds a way to make its fusion fuel fast | TechCrunch

Fusion power startup Inertia Enterprises reduced the fuel filling process from a week to just a few hours. It's one of 10 hurdles the company must overcome to make a profitable power plant.

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In 1854, William Thomson used a tiny mirror on a suspended magnet to help solve the problem of sending telegraph signals across the Atlantic

In the middle of the 19th century, sending a message across the Atlantic was still a distant ambition. Telegraph lines had already begun shrinking distances on land, but an ocean presented a different...

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Wyoming wants to hollow a hydroelectric plant into a mountain and build a lake above it that refills the system every night

Wyoming wants to hollow a hydroelectric plant into a mountain and build a lake above it that refills the system every night. How will the system work?

ecoportal.net

Owner of original Intel 8080 pre-production layout seeks restorer — handcrafted Rubylith mask shows 5,000 transistors and interconnect patterns of the fabled 2 MHz CPU

The same computing history artifact was previously pictured alongside Andy Grove, Robert Noyce, and Gordon Moore in 1978.

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In 1946, the U.S. Army sent a radar pulse toward the Moon; its echo returned 2.5 seconds later and proved radio signals could reach beyond Earth

On January 10, 1946, a team of military and civilian personnel at Camp Evans, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, aimed a modified radar system at the rising Moon and transmitted high-powered radio pulses towa...

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Earth's core holds enough gold to cover every continent in a layer 50 centimetres deep, but until volcanic rocks from Hawaii were analysed in 2025, geologists assumed it was sealed away forever — the ...

A 2025 ruthenium isotope study found evidence that material from Earth’s core is entering the mantle and reaching Hawaiian volcanic rocks, though it did not directly detect gold in transit.

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Ancient rocks in Ireland suggest volcanoes pulse between mush and melt before eruptions

Carlingford Mountain preserves the fossilized remains of the magma network that supplied volcanoes roughly 60 million years ago.

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A new camera is now observing activity in Biscuit Basin

In response to the June 13, 2026, hydrothermal explosion at Biscuit Basin, a new camera was installed to track activity over a broader area than had previously been possible.

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In 1973, Icelanders pumped more than 6 million cubic metres of seawater onto lava to protect a fishing harbour, creating a new breakwater

When a volcano erupted on the Icelandic island of Heimaey in January 1973, the immediate concern was not only the homes and streets in its path but also the harbour that supported the island's fishing...

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Superheated magma may power towering lava fountains

Scientists studying magma from the 2021 Tajogaite eruption on La Palma have discovered that extreme heat can dramatically change how an eruption unfolds. When magma becomes superheated, it can dissolv...

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In 1882, an American woman inventor came up with a design which helped in saving numerous lives and laying the foundation for modern life rafts: How Maria E. Beasley changed the future?

In 1882, an American woman inventor, Maria E. Beasley, received a patent for a life raft with collapsible metal floats, airtight containers, and features that allowed use after overturning. Her work f...

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A volcano the size of Rhode Island in central Oregon holds rock at 629 degrees just 9,800 feet down, and a Texas company cracked it open with two wells and pumped water through the gap at 100 feet an ...

Except the hottest enhanced geothermal system ever built is not in Iceland. It sits on the western flank of Newberry volcano, about 25 miles south of Bend,

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In 1874, an African-American inventor designed an improved bathroom system for trains: How Lewis Howard Latimer along with Charles W. Brown changed railroad travel with a safer water closet patent?

In 1874, an African-American inventor designed an improved bathroom system for trains through a patent filed by Lewis Howard Latimer and Charles W. Brown. The invention introduced a safer railroad car...

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