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Biologists drove 19 burrowing owls evicted by a Phoenix housing project 50 miles into a 10,000-acre solar complex and lowered them into 40 plastic burrows — every female laid eggs within a month, and 29 chicks fledged the first summer, because open ground under panels hides no predator from an owl
10+ hour, 13+ min ago (304+ words) A solar farm designed to fight climate change became an unexpected refuge for an endangered owl when scientists discovered that panels cast the perfect shadow for ground-nesting predators to hunt. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Edited by Brendan Brown Published…...
The world could have accumulated 78 million tons of retired solar panels by 2050. A team in South Korea pulled the silicon out of end-of-life panels, purified it to 99.95 percent, and cooked it into silicon nitride, the hard ceramic used in bearings.
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (795+ words) As solar waste threatens to become a massive problem, one discovery reveals the difference between disposal and profit. By Lab Report · Edited by Mal James Published September 11, 2026 · How we edit Solar panels do not last forever. Most are built to…...
Researchers heated egg yolk and leftover rice until it was a black powder full of tiny holes, then used it to store electricity. They charged it and drained it 10,000 times, and it still held 82.26 percent of what it did the first time.
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (515+ words) A humble kitchen waste might outlast the batteries powering your phone. By Lab Report · Edited by Mal James Published September 9, 2026 · How we edit Why would anyone cook egg yolk and old rice into a battery material? It sounds like a…...
A research centre in the Netherlands pipes human urine from office toilets into bacteria-filled cells that turn the waste into electricity while recovering valuable nutrients — and the same technology can be configured to produce hydrogen
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (298+ words) The waste stream powering electric vehicles and recovering scarce resources might be flowing beneath your office right now. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Edited by Daniel Moran Published September 8, 2026 · How we edit Two hundred and sixty men walked into an…...
In 2001, Germany's Rheinbraun needed to move its bucket-wheel excavator Bagger 288, a machine 225 meters long and 96 meters tall, some 22 kilometers between two open-pit mines, taking three weeks at a crawl of about ten meters a minute to get there
1+ week, 4+ day ago (293+ words) When a German mining company needed to relocate a machine the size of two football fields, they couldn't call a moving company—so engineers invented a way to make it walk. Published September 1, 2026 · How we edit Picture something roughly the…...
An 86-year-old Pennsylvania farmer rejected roughly $15.7 million — $60,000 per acre — from data-centre developers for his 261 acres. Instead, he accepted $1.9 million for the development rights, permanently preserving the land for farming.
2+ week, 6+ min ago (1005+ words) A Pennsylvania farmer kept his land and sold permanent development rights for $1.9 million after rejecting a reported $60,000-per-acre data-centre offer. By The Long View · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 30, 2026 · How we edit An 86-year-old Pennsylvania farmer looked at a…...
Australia's strange 'fairy circles' may mark buried hydrogen, and that could matter for clean energy
2+ week, 12+ hour ago (147+ words) A mysterious natural phenomenon in Australia's outback might reveal where to find clean hydrogen—if scientists can prove the connection. By Science Blog Editorial Team Published August 29, 2026 · How we edit That is a real result, and it matters because it…...
Scientists drilling through Antarctic ice pulled up a core containing air bubbles trapped 800,000 years ago, before modern humans existed, before agriculture, before written language — and the ancient air was still sealed inside
2+ week, 1+ day ago (429+ words) Three kilometres under the East Antarctic plateau sits air that nobody has ever breathed. Published August 28, 2026 · How we edit Three kilometres under the East Antarctic plateau sits air that nobody has ever breathed. It fell as snow around 800,000 years ago,…...
Researchers counting sheep under American solar farms as of October 2024 found 113,050 animals already grazing 129,261 acres on 506 sites across 30 states, a pasture the industry had estimated at 15,000 acres only three years earlier
2+ week, 4+ day ago (167+ words) Nobody actually knew how many sheep were working America's solar farms. There were anecdotes, a trade association, a scattering of local news stories about flocks moving into panel rows from New York to Texas. Published August 25, 2026 · How we edit A…...
Texas ranchers now run sheep across roughly 68,000 acres of solar farms, more than half the American solar-grazing map, because goats climb the panels and chew the wires and cattle are simply too tall for the rows
3+ week, 10+ hour ago (548+ words) While solar farms must stay weed-free to function, the animals that do that job matter enormously—and sheep have won out over goats, cattle, and every other contender. Published August 23, 2026 · How we edit Drive through Milam County, Texas, past the…...