The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet going
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The forgotten Roman roads
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How a simple fix could double the size of the US electricity grid
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Minnesota repeals law that protected ISPs from municipal competition
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Mexico City and Bogotá stare down a ‘Day Zero’ without water
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Los Angeles County captures ninety-six billion gallons of water during ‘super year’ of storms
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In Switzerland, modular mobile ASTRA Bridge lets highway traffic fly over roadwork
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Joe Biden administration commits $3.4 billion in funding to San Francisco Caltrain extension
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Would you walk further to a bus stop that had faster service?
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California High-Speed Rail Spring 2024 construction progress report: Trainsets, construction, stations, and more
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How did Helsinki make transit work in the suburbs?
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Google will send the waste heat from its data center in Hamina, Finland, to that community's district heating system
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Cyber security: A pre-war reality check
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Why every city wants a Wrigley Field
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Cryptocurrency mining as a novel virtual energy storage system in islanded and grid-connected microgrids
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New rules to overhaul US electric grids could boost wind and solar power
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Carbon dioxide pipelines and underground injection can cut greenhouse gas, but community opposition is fierce
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How bridge engineers design against ship collisions
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Funding shortfall for new tech endangers rural US cell service, Federal Communications Commission says
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The methodical plan to erase Chicago
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America’s wind power production drops for the first time in twenty-five years
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Rooftop solar panels are flooding California’s grid. That’s a problem.
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Why is your train delayed? Common signalling system faults.
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Mediterranean ports warn of overflowing storage yards in latest threat to supply chain
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Indiana will test a highway that can charge moving vehicles
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All roads lead to Romania, as PM vows motorway to Moldova will open this year
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Connecting solar to the grid is harder than you think
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We need to rewild the internet
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USA, 101 Freeway: Major Los Angeles highway to undergo weeks of closures for wildlife crossing construction
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In the years after World War II, neutral, peace-loving Sweden embarked on an ambitious plan – build its own atomic bomb
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Mexico City’s metro system is sinking fast
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Networked geothermal is catching on in Minnesota
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Norwegian bridge collapsed ten years after it was built – all because designers focused too much on making it look good
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US aiming to ‘crack the code’ on deploying geothermal energy at scale
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5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030
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The fish doorbell
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Baltimore bridge salvage: 'This is a game of Jenga you don't want to lose'
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Subaru cars phone home to 3G cellular network that no longer exists - drains battery
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How do fish ladders work?
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Baltimore port bridge collapse: Global ocean carriers put US companies on hook for urgent cargo pickup
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What happened when you visited a medieval inn?
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Joe Biden administration announces $1.5 billion loan for first reopening of a shuttered US nuclear plant
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Cargo ship hits major bridge in Baltimore, triggering collapse (gifted link)
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All the ways car dependency is wrecking us – car harm: a global review of automobility's harm to people and the environment
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Historic covered bridges in the US are under threat by truck drivers relying on GPS meant for cars
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Ericsson will lay off about 1,200 employees in Sweden as the telecommunications company faces slowed demand for its 5G equipment
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Germany’s solar panel industry, once a leader, is getting squeezed
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100,000 years and counting – how do we tell future generations about highly radioactive nuclear waste repositories?
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India electrified 45% of its railway network in just five years
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Industrial-scale thermal storage unit in Pornainen, southern Finland, will be the world's biggest sand battery when it comes online within a couple of years
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