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With 9.2 million tons of glass missing American recycling bins each year, a Chicago bar program closed the loop in about two weeks

Only one third of glass put out for recycling in the US actually gets recycled. Here's where 9.2 million tons of glass ...
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A single whooping crane can throw a two-mile safety bubble around South Dakota’s Philip Wind Project during autumn migration, with crews ready to shut turbines down the ...

One whooping crane can throw a two-mile safety bubble around South Dakota’s Philip Wind Project during autumn migration, with crews ready to shut turbines down.
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A hydraulic blade lifter raised 21 turbine blades at a steep angle to squeeze them through the narrow streets of the Scottish market town of Hawick, and the deliveries still ...

A small Scottish market town does not look like the sort of place a 213 foot turbine blade would be tilted skyward over a roundabout.
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Twenty four volunteers lay tilted head down for 60 days in a German research ward, and daily centrifuge spins left their hearts and aerobic fitness unprotected while spa…

Lying with the head six degrees lower than the feet sounds almost comfortable, but it tricks every system in the body at once ...
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A 672 metric ton wooden church in Kiruna rolled three miles on two transporter trains held within 3 inches of level, and its bell tower followed six days later

The route through Kiruna had been widened and compacted for months before anything moved. Test runs first. Counterweights ...
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Mapped across 14 red seaweed species on coastlines worldwide, a shimmering blue and turquoise color comes from nanoscale layered structures that solar engineers w…

Standard solar panels convert about a quarter of incoming light. A red seaweed's nanostructured cells do better — and ...
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Cape Hatteras lighthouse had only 120 feet of sand left between its base and the ocean, so crews rolled the 4,830-ton brick tower 2,900 feet on rails lubricated with b…

The ocean had been patient for more than a century. When the Cape Hatteras lighthouse was completed, the Atlantic was a ...
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Grenache vines at a 3,660 square foot pilot in southern France ripened a week later under tilting panels, and a tasting panel found the shaded wines consistently fruitie…

Season after season, tasters working through glass after glass on an expert sensory panel landed on the same verdict. The ...
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Scientists tagged 33 lobsters at turbine bases nine miles off the Welsh coast, and over half were still inside the boulder piles four months later

Researchers tagged 33 lobsters at an Irish Sea wind farm and found more than half still sheltering in the same boulder pile ...
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A contaminated ham omelette loaded in Anchorage sickened 196 passengers on a transatlantic jumbo jet, and the two pilots who skipped it kept the cockpit healthy s…

The breakfast tray looked the same in seat after seat. Ham and omelette, prepared in an airline catering kitchen in Anchorage ...
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A rover camera at Witch Hazel Hill on Mars recorded a dust devil about 210 feet wide pulling a 16 foot whirlwind into itself, while two more spun in the background

The camera pointed at the horizon and waited. At a spot on the western rim of Jezero Crater called Witch Hazel Hill, a rover ...
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Eight cyclones ring a ninth at Jupiter’s north pole in a formation spanning 2,900 miles across, while the south pole settled on a smaller count

At Jupiter’s north pole, there is no single eye of a storm. There are nine of them: one enormous cyclone at the center, with eight more arranged in a ring around it. Each outer storm measures 2,500 to ...