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Singapore built a pilot plant that uses discarded orange, lemon and pineapple peels to dissolve valuable metals out of shredded lithium-ion batteries — the underlying process recovered roughly 90 percent of the cobalt, lithium, nickel and manganese in lab tests
17+ hour, 31+ min ago (217+ words) Somewhere in Singapore's industrial west, a tank of shredded batteries is soaking in a solution that smells faintly of marmalade....
In 1962, Canada’s first satellite went into orbit with a planned life of 1 year — Alouette sent useful data for more than 10 years, carrying long antennas that had been packed for launch by rolling the metal strips up like a carpenter’s measuring tape.
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (529+ words) Alouette I exceeded its one-year design life and used antennas that unrolled from compact coils into long tubular structures. Its radio observations left an enduring archive....
Bacteria living around the roots of rice plants can generate a tiny electrical current as they feed, and scientists in Bangladesh have tested the phenomenon in working paddy soil — producing electricity without reducing the rice harvest
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (232+ words) A team in Bangladesh has harnessed bacteria's hunger to generate electricity from rice paddies, proving that farming's oldest staple can double as a power source without sacrificing yield. Published September 9, 2026 · How we edit Somewhere under a flooded paddy, bacteria are…...
In 1996, astronauts paid out 19.7 kilometres of cable from the shuttle Columbia to test electricity generation in orbit — the system reached 3,500 volts before an electrical arc burned through the tether and sent the satellite drifting away from its ship.
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (673+ words) Columbia’s TSS-1R experiment deployed 19.7 kilometres of tether before electrical arcing caused a break. The lost satellite still left useful data about electricity generation in orbit....
A single large data centre can use an estimated five million US gallons of water a day — roughly the daily demand of a town of 50,000 people — and the AI-driven construction boom is expanding into regions where water supplies are already under strain.
5+ day, 23+ hour ago (907+ words) Five million gallons is a high-end estimate, not typical use. Facility records, cooling design and summer peaks reveal how data-centre growth can strain local water supplies. By Life Signs · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 7, 2026 · How we edit Five million…...
The UN's new assessment says global temperatures could be pulled back below 1.5C late this century, but the sea cannot be pulled back with them, because warm water expands and ice sheets keep shedding mass for centuries after the air above them has cooled
1+ week, 2+ day ago (29+ words) Even if humanity stops global warming mid-century, the oceans will keep rising for hundreds of years—a reckoning buried in the UN's otherwise hopeful new climate roadmap....
In 1989, media billionaire Ted Turner bought the 113,613-acre Flying D ranch in Montana, removed its cattle and hundreds of miles of internal barbed-wire fencing, and shifted the land to bison — 37 years later, the property supports about 4,500 of them.
1+ week, 4+ day ago (760+ words) A massive Montana ranch shows how rewilding on billionaire-scale might reshape western land—and what gets left behind in the trade-offs. Published September 1, 2026 · How we edit Let’s consider the same stretch of southwestern Montana ground, three decades apart. In the…...
Scientists in Iceland drilled straight into 900°C magma by accident — so energy-dense was the well that resulted, it could produce nearly ten times the power of a conventional geothermal well
2+ week, 6+ day ago (309+ words) In 2009 a drill crew in northeast Iceland went looking for very hot water and hit something that was still moving....
About 69 per cent of Danish households were connected to district heating in 2023 — networks that collectively supply around half of Denmark's residential heat demand.
3+ week, 9+ hour ago (349+ words) Denmark has quietly built an energy system where most homes don't heat themselves—they tap into a national grid of shared warmth, a model that could reshape how the world thinks about residential heating....
Start with one grain of rice on the first square of a chessboard and double it on every square, and the 64th square alone would hold more than 9.2 quintillion grains — with more than 18.4 quintillion grains across the whole board.
3+ week, 1+ day ago (175+ words) Exponential growth seems harmless until you're obligated to deliver more grain than exists on Earth....