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Water boils at 202 degrees in Denver because there is a mile less air pressing on the pot, and a concrete building in eastern Washington takes that much further, boiling ...

That principle is doing serious work on one of the most contaminated sites in the country. In the middle of the Hanford Site ...
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A 164-foot concrete rotor turning in the tide makes no electricity at all. A federal lab opened its hub and found a bearing and nothing else, because the only two genera…

A small Dutch company decided that the housing is the expensive part. In July it lowered a scale model of its alternative ...
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The Internet Says Cybertruck Owners Are Being Told Their Trucks Are Worthless. Two of the Videos Look Like Dealership Skits, and the Real Number Is Ordinary

Videos are popping up all over the place of Cybertruck owners raging at trade-in values, but is it true? Not completely.
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A British Carmaker Fitted Anti-Lock Brakes to a Road Car in 1966 and All-Wheel Drive 14 Years Before the AMC Eagle. Then It Went Bust, and It Just Came Back With 940 …

Legendary British automaker Jensen is seemingly back from the dead, and is bringing a 940 horsepower V8 muscle car with it.
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A 30-kilowatt laser has to hold its beam on one square inch of a drone that is actively trying to get away, and the Army has just ordered dozens of them after four decade…

You've probably seen the clip by now: a small drone flying along minding its business, then a glow on its tail, then a tumble ...
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NASA just opened its first new wind tunnel in more than 40 years, a 131-foot building in Virginia with four 14-foot fans and 3,000 horsepower blowing straight up, and the ...

The new Flight Dynamics Research Facility at Langley is genuinely impressive — 3,000 horsepower, four 14-foot carbon fiber fans, and airspeeds of 117 mph — but the headline nobody is saying out loud ...
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Somebody threw stones at the only Koenigsegg Gemera in Denmark while it sat outside a Copenhagen hotel with doormen on the street all night, smashing windo…

We just saw the first-ever Koenigsegg Gemera on the streets of Denmark. Unfortunately, the windshield was smashed.
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A 584-foot machine named Donna Maria weighs 1.5 million pounds, cuts a face only 16 feet across, and goes in 130 feet under Munich below the water table, and the 1.…

Big tunneling machines get names, and cities tend to make a small event out of it. Munich narrowed more than 1,000 public ...
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Why supercars depreciate so fast—and when they can actually become valuable collectibles

The 70th Anniversary Corvette Z06 has hemorrhaged nearly half its value in just two years, dropping from $192,000 to $115,000, and the trajectory suggests the floor hasn't been reached yet. Hagerty's ...
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Honda has paused the Civic Si four times now, the last one in July alongside the Integra A-Spec, and the executive who runs its American sales told a press panel th…

The Honda Civic Si disappeared once more as automakers feel uncertain about manual transmission cars. However, things could ...
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177,675 solar panels are going up beside 940 megawatts of coal in Minnesota and plug into the grid through 2.5 miles of line, while 255,000 more from the same auction need 3.5 ...

Minnesota Power's two solar farms, built simultaneously from the same auction, reveal a rarely discussed truth: the solar panels themselves may not be the most expensive part of going green. Boswell ...
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A mako shark with a sensor bolted to its dorsal fin sends a temperature profile up from under the Atlantic for $296, a robot glider charges $1,875 for the same readin…

So a team at the University of Delaware has spent this summer bolting sensors onto the dorsal fins of mako sharks and sending ...