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Rows of bifacial solar panels and wind turbines stretching across the arid salt flats of the Khavda Renewable Energy Park in Gujarat, India.

India is building the world’s largest green energy park in a remote desert, and it could employ 15,000 people

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July 12, 2026 at 10:35 AM
A high-tech laboratory setup showing the Texatron Fusion Engine components, designed to test compact aneutronic fusion power.

An American company is inviting outside scientists to test its 5-megawatt fusion engine, and the stakes for clean power are huge

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July 12, 2026 at 7:45 AM
A one-square-meter solar reactor panel tested outdoors, converting common plastic waste into clean hydrogen fuel via sunlight.

It isn’t recycling: a new solar reactor turns plastic waste into hydrogen fuel at scale using clever chemistry

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July 11, 2026 at 6:45 PM
The massive Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 steam locomotive traveling through Pennsylvania during its 2026 cross-country tour.

Big Boy No. 4014, the world’s largest operating steam locomotive, will roll through Pennsylvania twice in July, and it’s a rare sight

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July 11, 2026 at 12:30 PM
AI-generated rendering of a massive bridge and tunnel structure spanning the Long Island Sound connecting Connecticut and New York.

A $50 billion bridge could finally link Connecticut to Long Island, but engineers can’t agree on whether it would fix anything

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July 11, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Removable solar panels installed precisely in the center of an active Swiss railway track, demonstrating a new way to harvest energy.

Switzerland laid the world’s first removable solar plant between its train tracks, and the early results are turning heads abroad

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July 11, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Construction site layout and engineering rendering of the Chenab–Beas Link Tunnel barrage and water diversion system in Himachal Pradesh.

India is boring a tunnel through the Rohtang hills to redirect a river, and one neighbor is watching with growing alarm

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July 10, 2026 at 3:45 PM
A massive wind farm landscape showing rows of turbines connected to high-voltage transmission lines in the New Mexico desert.

America just switched on its largest renewable project ever, and it now pumps out more power than the Hoover Dam

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July 10, 2026 at 10:35 AM
The NASA Curiosity rover parked on the Martian surface with the layered slopes of Mount Sharp visible in the background.

NASA sent Curiosity to Mars in 2011 for a two-year mission, and almost 15 years later it still won’t quit

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July 10, 2026 at 7:45 AM
The new Stadler hydrogen-powered narrow-gauge train displayed at the commissioning center in Erlen, Switzerland.

A Swiss firm unveiled the world’s first narrow-gauge hydrogen train, and what leaves the tailpipe is the surprise

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July 9, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Two autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) from the National Oceanography Centre displayed at the Oceanic Observatory of Madeira.

Madeira’s ocean observatory just unveiled two autonomous deep-sea submarines that cost almost $7 million: what they’ll hunt

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July 9, 2026 at 10:35 AM
Solar panels installed as a canopy over a section of an irrigation canal in California's Central Valley as part of the Project Nexus pilot program.

California roofed its irrigation canals with solar panels, and covering all 4,000 miles could save billions of gallons of water

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July 9, 2026 at 9:30 AM
A massive 110-ton steam generator being lifted by a crane through the roof of the Bruce Power nuclear generating station during the Unit 3 refurbishment.

Canada cut a hole in a live nuclear reactor, pulled out eight 110-ton steam generators, and reopened it months early

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July 9, 2026 at 6:00 AM
An aerial view of the massive construction pit for Unit 6 at the Paks II nuclear power plant, highlighting the scale of the earthworks.

Hungary dug a hole deep enough to bury a seven-story building, all to hold one 330-ton steel reactor vessel

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July 8, 2026 at 3:45 PM
A diagram illustrating a modular nuclear reactor positioned one mile underground in a deep, narrow borehole, utilizing the surrounding rock for shielding.

A US startup wants to drop a full nuclear reactor a mile down a 30-inch hole, with no concrete dome required

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July 8, 2026 at 9:30 AM
A structural design diagram of the proposed underground Alcântara rail junction in Lisbon, showing the integration of the Cascais and Cintura lines.

Lisbon is burying an entire rail junction underground: by 2034, Cascais trains will reach a place they’ve never touched before

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July 7, 2026 at 6:45 PM
The 1845 steam locomotive Columbine reunited with its tender on the Great Hall turntable at the National Railway Museum in York.

A historic steam locomotive just crossed England, hauled from London to York’s National Railway Museum: the reason behind the move matters

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July 7, 2026 at 10:35 AM
A view of the high-altitude Himalayan terrain near Koksar, Himachal Pradesh, where the Chenab-Beas Link Tunnel project is slated to begin construction.

India is boring a tunnel through the Rohtang peaks to move river water, and Pakistan is watching every drop

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July 7, 2026 at 6:00 AM
A vertical view of the La Ruche tiny house, showing its compact, two-story wooden design intended for garden studio use.

This skyscraper-style tiny house sleeps two in a footprint smaller than you’d think: how it stacks rooms instead of spreading out

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July 6, 2026 at 12:34 PM
A digital rendering showing the proposed twin-tube rail tunnel beneath the Andes Mountains, connecting Argentina and Chile.

A private consortium wants to build a 33.5-mile-long rail tunnel through the Andes to connect Argentina and Chile, but this $9.6 billion megaproject still has to navigate a mountain of red tape to obtain the necessary permits

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July 6, 2026 at 7:45 AM
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