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* BEGIN SAAANDY! TIME TO GET ROLLING. THERE ARE SO MANY! THINKING THE SAME ABOUT HER. I'M HUGO WILLIAM. HERE AT WILLOW GLEN, SPPINSFIELD'S NEWEST COMMUNITY, WE'RE BUILDING BEAUTIFUL HOME'S [...]

WITHIN SIGHT OF THE SUNBATHERS AT Old Man's surf spot, 55 miles north of San Diego, California, loom a pair of 176-foot-tall orbs. They're a strange backdrop, home of the [...]

Humans aren't the only ones battling the forces of nature. Meet eight other creatures living on the brink-thanks to extreme weather and climate change. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WHOOPING CRANE Grus Americana [...]

Did you see Big Hero 6 last fall? If you did, you may have noticed giant balloons in the sky above the imaginary city of San Fransokyo. In the movie, [...]

Byline: JEREMY M. LANGE BY MARY BETH GRIGGS GROW HOUSE It may have a glass roof and be filled with plants, but the Advanced Crop Lab at the Durham, North [...]

OUTSIDE THE WINDOW OF HELEN DAHLKE'S OFFICE, AT THE University of California at Davis, the clouds hang low, their edges seeming to brush against the building. It's raining intensely, an [...]

IN SOME PARTS OF THE WORLD, CLEAN WATER FLOWS straight from a tap. In others, people trek for miles to reach a potable source. How do we measure the availability [...]

At the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, paleontologists used to free large fossils like sabertooth jaws and mammoth shoulders by melting the asphalt with heated kerosene. In the process, [...]

The Namibian savanna is dotted with 13-foot-tall towers of sandy soil. Built by termites just a fifth of an inch long, these mounds aren't only structural feats--they're a biological extension [...]

CHARLIE SOBECK, NASA SYSTEMS ENGINEER I have one of the best jobs in the world, helping manage NASA's exoplanet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope. In 2012 and 2013, the craft lost two [...]

HUMANS ARE SMEARTR THAN THEY TNHIK. Since the early aughts, Internet memes have hyped the notion that the order of letters in a word doesn't matter as long as the [...]

EVER WISH E.T. WOULD PHONE YOUR HOME? THE scientists at the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute do. They seek unnatural variations in light and radio waves that may indicate [...]

STEPHEN CLARKE, CEO OF AQUA METALS Lead-acid batteries start car engines so well that we've used them in pretty much the same way for more than a century. Everyone always [...]

The article offers information related to underwater archaeology. It mentions a 1200 B.C. ship excavated by George Bass off the southern coast of Turkey which led to the discovery that the vessel carried goods from the East to Greece and not vice versa. It notes the recovery of the Swedish warship Vasa, which sank in 1628, by archaeologists in 1961 and offered a view of the 17th century naval warfare.

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Windmills have dotted the Dutch countryside for centuries. But in densely populated cities, whooshing turbines are a tough sell. A new concept called the Dutch Wind-wheel could offer a silent, [...]

FORGET THE GEARS OF A WATCH. THOSE COLLECTIONS OF COGS AND springs might help us track the passing hours, but the way we visualize tempo is far more nuanced. 'Time [...]

At 770 feet tall, the Oroville Dam, where I work, is the tallest dam in the United States and holds the second-largest reservoir in California. I'm from Oroville, and I [...]

MARS IS KNOWN AS THE Red Planet, but we could color it green. By unleashing greenhouse gases that trap the sun's heat-something humans happen to be very good at--we could [...]

I'm responsible for all of Six Flags' amusements, from the kiddie rides to the roller coasters, in all 18 parks in North America. Right now we're considering making a new [...]

SHIPPING UP TO 15,550 20-FOOT-LONG CONTAINERS ACROSS the world's waves is hard work. So hard that Emma Maersk, a quarter-mile-long cargo ship, needs serious muscle: the Wartsila i4RT-flex96C, among the [...]

THERE'S NOTHING QUITE like putting down roots and tending a garden. But what happens if you don't have a backyard? Or you're suddenly uprooted? Or you decide to go on [...]

The article offers brief information on several products including DBC fax machine from Synthetic Genomics; the raptor track roller coaster from Rocky Mountain Construction; and Boltspun Neckties from Bolt Threads.

The magenta dots on this rat brain cell are exciting, in the most literal sense. They're excitatory synapses, which enable neurons to relay information. Neuroscientists at University College London found [...]

After 10 years studying tiny bones unearthed by a farmer in China, an international team of scientists announced this summer that the fossil is the oldest known primate skeleton yet [...]

Looking at the cosmos through a telescope is a transformative experience. The rings of Saturn, the clouds of distant nebulae, and the familiar yet alien surface of our own moon [...]

Skull implants may not be considered cutting-edge anymore, but this March a man received one made to order by a 3D printer. Oxford Performance Materials (OPM) prints the inserts, which [...]

There are plenty of threats to a research station in Antarctica: brutal cold, building-burying snowfall, and an ice shelf that's in constant motion. After the British Antarctic Survey lost four [...]

Thanks to expanded housing developments and, in some areas, recovering wildlife populations, animals and people are seeing more of each other these days. Coyotes, deer, and raccoons now live in [...]

More than a year after the Costa Concordia ran aground off the Italian coast, the ship remains where it wrecked. More than 400 workers are attempting one of the largest [...]

HOW TO TURN YOUR HOUSE-PARTY LEFTOVERS INTO A METEOROLOGICAL MASH-UP. You don't need a TV weather forecaster in an expensive windbreaker to tell you what's happening in your own backyard. [...]

Microscope photography used to be a high-priced craft--and for high magnifications it still is. Hall Davidson, a former math teacher who works for Discovery Education, has come up with an [...]

NASA may not know whether its next destination is an asteroid, Mars, or the moon, but the agency is definitely planning for some kind of journey--and its engineers need to [...]