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New York's subway has logged over 1, 200 people on the tracks in a single year and the MTA is betting on technology it has tried and failed before
15+ hour, 40+ min ago (599+ words) That's not a typographical error. It represents the largest number of riders who fell onto the rail since the MTA, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, began tracking incidents. Aging equipment combined with massive crowds and a strained system is making this…...
Burning up dead satellites sounds like the cleanest way to stop space from filling with junk, but the real cost only shows up high in the sky where no one is looking
14+ hour, 6+ min ago (661+ words) Tens of thousands of satellites now circle the Earth, beaming down internet and filling the night sky with moving points of light. And when one of them dies, it is designed to do something that sounds almost graceful. It falls…...
Solar farms were built to make clean power, not to shelter anything alive, but one animal running out of places to live quietly decided otherwise
19+ hour, 41+ min ago (655+ words) From the outside, a solar farm looks like the opposite of nature. Endless rows of dark glass, steel posts, a tall security fence, and a wide stretch of open ground. It was built for one job only, to turn sunlight…...
Dishwasher tablets were sold as the easy way to get perfectly clean dishes, until scientists looked closely at the invisible film they can leave behind
20+ hour, 30+ min ago (584+ words) It is one of the small miracles of modern life. You drop a single tablet into the machine, press a button, and walk away. An hour later the plates come out spotless and dry, the glasses gleaming without a single…...
For over a century the entire world has squeezed its trade through one narrow canal, but as it slowly runs dry, the rival rising next door can do the one thing it never could
22+ hour, 44+ min ago (665+ words) For more than a hundred years, one narrow waterway has quietly held the world's trade together. Ships from every ocean line up to squeeze through it, lifted over a mountain and lowered again, carrying everything from cars to cereal. It…...
This solar plant got in the way of a group of cormorants. In "revenge," they began to circle it and turned it into their fishing ground
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (582+ words) Cormorants began to draw attention as seabirds gathered around an offshore Dutch wind farm. Many were so fascinated by it that it seemed as if they wanted it to become their own personal "hangout" place. While the turbines may seem…...
Clearing a quiet German forest for a giant factory was meant to be the easy part, but its smallest residents had other plans
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (584+ words) It is a story that sounds almost like a modern fable. One of the most powerful companies on the planet, led by one of the richest men alive, arrives in a quiet stretch of German pine forest with a bold…...
Vivid blue ponds carved into Utah's red desert are actually a window into an ancient industrial process
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (277+ words) From the International Space Station, they look almost impossible: dozens of electric-blue rectangles blazing against the rust-red rock of the Colorado Plateau, hugging the dark-green bends of the Colorado River near Moab, Utah. The contrast is jarring. This is one…...
Scientists found a hamster-sized survivor that somehow made it through the apocalypse that wiped out the dinosaurs
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (569+ words) About 66 million years ago, Earth changed suddenly when an asteroid collided with the planet. Fires burned out of control. Darkness covered everything. One by one, the world's ecosystems began to collapse. When this massive event took place, almost three-fourths of…...
Wind turbines were promised as clean, quiet and almost maintenance free, but high in the sky, where almost no one ever looks, a hidden issue was quietly spreading
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (684+ words) Wind turbines have become one of the great symbols of a clean future. Tall, white and silent, turning slowly on the horizon. We were promised they were clean, quiet and almost maintenance free. The kind of machine you build once…...
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