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This giant ‘sunflower’ follows the Sun with 360 rotating solar panels while creating shade for fish beneath the water

This giant ‘sunflower’ follows the Sun with 360 rotating solar panels while creating shade for fish beneath the water. It's ...
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A 5 pound fox slipped into two California solar farms after losing almost 95 percent of its wild home, and the fence built to guard the panels ended up locking out the c…

A research event detailed by the Santa Barbara Bren School of Environmental Science & Management found foxes are using solar ...
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Soviet engineers built a 73 meter “monster” armed with six missiles to ride the invisible force that lifts every airplane in its final feet above the runway, and that sa…

Every plane you've flown on briefly floats on a hidden air cushion called ground effect. Now that same invisible force has ...
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A backyard tower goes up in rural Ohio promising to cut the electricity bill in half, and the thing that moves in around its base is turning into something no one in the clea…

Home wind turbines are being pitched as the next solar panels, but the science of what happens when one goes up reveals a ...
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Sailors called it a sea serpent and ran from it for 2,000 years, and the ribbon-bodied silver giant they were really seeing lives in a twilight world almost no camera has ev…

For 2,000 years sailors fled it as a sea monster. The giant oarfish is real, it's 36 feet long, and scientists barely know it ...
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Termites cost American homeowners over 5 billion dollars a year, more than fire and floods combined, but the tiny factory inside the pest can turn one sheet of paper int…

Americans spend $5 billion a year fighting termites, but the tiny insect's gut is a hydrogen factory so efficient it's ...
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Henry Ford bought 2,000 acres of Michigan riverbank to build a bird sanctuary, then raised the largest factory on Earth there instead, and a century later 10 acres of that ...

Ford has just left its famous Glass House headquarters near Detroit after nearly seventy years, moving staff into a brand new ...
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‘Frankenstein organisms’ and ‘crystal supercells’ are among 31 new species discovered after marine biologists sent a robot into one of the least-explored parts …

Marine scientists discovered 31 new species, including “Frankenstein organisms,” after sending a robot into one of the ...
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They tested 20 molecules in the air of a planet 124 light years away and thought one was the smell of an alien ocean, until other teams reran the data and 87 percent of t…

That sharp, briny smell is not the salt, it is a gas made by life, breathed out by tiny ocean creatures too small to see. For ...
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Engineers built 13,500 ton machine called “Big Muskie,” the largest ever to walk the Earth, to rip the coal out of rural Ohio, and the 10,000 acres it tore apart are now a ...

In the hills of rural Ohio, the largest machine that ever walked the Earth spent more than twenty years tearing the ground ...
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Americans spend billions on dyed mulch for a tidy garden bed, but one study found 18 of 22 recycled wood mulch samples leaked arsenic into the soil, and the robins p…

Dyed mulch fills millions of American garden beds, sold as tidy and long-lasting. But the recycled wood underneath the color ...
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A sensor in a Florida bay named for one of America’s most beloved water animals recorded 101 degrees, and the hidden reason scientists called it the most alarming r…

A buoy in Manatee Bay near Everglades National Park hit 101.1°F in July 2023, and what it revealed about coral, seagrass, and ...