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The Mjønes shipwreck in northern Norway was built from local pine in the mid-1700s and repaired as late as the mid-1800s, giving this jekt cargo ship more than three ti…

Mjønes shipwreck: a jekt cargo ship built from Norwegian pine in the mid-1700s stayed in service over 100 years, triple the ...
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The BelAZ 75710 dump truck hauls 450 metric tons on eight tires, and the record mining giant still runs on diesel, with two 16-cylinder engines making power for its …

BelAZ 75710 hauls 450 metric tons per load on eight tires, yet two 16-cylinder diesel engines still make the power for its ...
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Two decades of research cruises off West Africa show round sardinella pushing its northern edge about 112 miles per decade, and its share north of Mauritania’s Cap…

Round sardinella off Senegal and Mauritania pushed its northern edge about 112 miles per decade, and its share north of Cape ...
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China Three Gorges began commercial trial operation of a 1-gigawatt solar complex in Xinjiang’s Gobi that stores heat in 1,022°F molten salt, and its 100-megawatt ther…

Molten salt lets the 100-megawatt thermal unit at China Three Gorges' 1-gigawatt Hami solar complex keep generating for up to ...
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A tugboat and a crane barge helped move the 45,000-ton Battleship Wisconsin about five feet off its Norfolk pier, its first move since 2000, so crews could replace the fen…

Battleship Wisconsin moved about five feet off its Norfolk pier on Sept. 8, 2026, its first move since 2000, so crews could ...
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A CNRS team found France’s Giens peninsula was once an island before two sand strips joined it to the mainland, and a geographer warns the western strip could van…

Giens peninsula was an island around 5,000 B.C., CNRS cores show, and its western sand strip, Almanarre, could vanish in ...
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About 9 million lightning flashes recorded over northern Europe from 1998 to 2019 show extreme lightning days came roughly twice as often during high-speed solar …

High-speed solar wind days saw extreme lightning 19.5 percent of the time, against 9.9 percent on other days, across 9 ...
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The Hunga Tonga eruption sent at least 330,000 metric tons of methane into the stratosphere, and formaldehyde seen from orbit shows its salty ash cloud then brok…

Hunga Tonga eruption plume broke down about 900 metric tons of methane a day after injecting at least 330,000 tons, satellite ...
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A 60-hour pour of about 311,000 cubic feet of concrete started the second reactor at China’s Zhaoyuan nuclear plant, and each of six planned units will get a 666-foot co…

CGN began a 60-hour pour of 8,800 cubic meters of concrete for Unit 2 on Sept. 5, 2026, second of six planned Hualong One ...
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Workers digging a kitchen foundation in Massachusetts found the Marblehead Hoard, 82 gold and silver coins from nine countries, and its top piece, a 1764 Mexic…

Marblehead Hoard: workers digging a kitchen foundation found 82 gold and silver coins dated 1726 to 1814, led by a 1764 ...
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A ritual bath preserved 13.8 feet from floor to ceiling stands in a monumental purification complex at the foot of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, and archaeologists s…

Purification complex at the foot of Jerusalem's Temple Mount holds three ritual baths, one still 13.8 feet tall to its stone ...
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Slovak cavers say they mapped 10 miles of the quartzite cave Ojos de Cristal on Venezuela’s Mount Roraima, and up to 84 percent of its deep bacteria belonged to …

Quartzite cave Ojos de Cristal on Mount Roraima runs 10 miles (16.14 km) by a Slovak count, and up to 84% of its deep ...