For all its benefits, solar power has its issues, including deforestation. However, with a little care, solar farms can help the the ecosystem, not hurt it.
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Researchers have recovered 500-year-old artifacts from the deepest-known shipwreck in French waters using a robot capable of operating at crushing depths.
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NASA and other space agencies have put plenty of things in orbit, including space stations, satellites, and even a car, but not a gas station.
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The supersonic Concorde airplane took, at most, 3.5 hours to travel from New York to London, with its fastest travel time being two hours and 52 minutes.
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Researchers are increasingly tracking natural hazards with internet cables, and their success could lead to them using the technology in space.
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Submarine interiors bathed in red might be a familiar scene in fiction, but that visual is based in truth. Red light is easy on the eye, especially in the dark.
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Nuclear energy is great because it doesn't produce any harmful emissions, but the waste it does produce can stick around for a very long time.
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Although they might seem like yesterday's hype, quantum computers are still progressing, and a European team has recently set a big new record.
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Solar power is often seen as a safer alternative to nuclear, which produces toxic waste, but matching nuclear's power output with solar isn't easy.
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China produces more energy through wind than the rest of the world, holding more than 50% of the world's total capacity, and now it's taking to the air.
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It's impossible to escape screens in the modern world, and while you probably already know it, they're hurting your eyes in more ways than one.
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Although the Space Shuttle was capable of rocket-powered rides to space, it required the help of a Boeing 747 for earthbound transportation.
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American spacecraft have often returned to Earth with a literal splash, but Russia's Soyuz craft touch back down on land. And the reason is surprisingly simple.
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AI may be the hottest trend in technology, but there could be unforeseen psychological risks lurking just below the surface that we aren't ready for.
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China has massively cleaned up its air pollution problem, but that might have caused some complications, with a polluted sky potentially keeping Earth cooler.
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Scientists learned early on how crucial the roll maneuver was to get astronauts to space, and NASA has been using it since the days of its earliest rockets.
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Digital cameras are used everywhere today, from outer space to the inside of a nuclear reactor, so what does that radiation do to the camera?
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Lasers originating from across the universe are a rare find, and astronomers only managed to catch a glimpse of a record-breaking one due to a stroke of luck.
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Passenger airplanes have a bunch of little symbols or features throughout them that seem random to most passengers, but each and every one has a purpose.
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Solar power installations are great at reducing our output of greenhouse gases, but they could be causing big problems for migrating birds.
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Most of the time, when somebody hears the word radiation, they think of the fallout left after a nuclear explosion, which can be incredibly dangerous.
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Floating solar arrays are an increasingly popular solution to rising energy demands, but Australia is finding out they're good for more than power.
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Most of us have probably seen a shooting star, but our meteor knowledge likely stops there, with all the gaps filled by myths and misinformation.
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Fake drugs laced with dangerous chemicals are becoming a problem worldwide. This prototype detector might be able to tell the difference, but there's a catch.
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You've probably heard of white noise, but there's a whole slew of similarly colorful noises, some of which seem to have interesting psychological effects.
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Internal combustion engines built the modern world but they are major polluters, but this hydrogen engine prototype could change the paradigm.
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With the cost of oil-based commodities always on the rise, it's good to know that there are scientists out there working on ways to bring them down.
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