Bringing back the battleship? - Railguns, US shipbuilding and a 35,000 ton bad idea?
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Falling price of cocaine forces drug traffickers to reuse narco-submarines, say Spanish police
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2025 update on LA Metro projects
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Volvo’s quest for safety has resulted in this new, ultra-legible in-car typeface, Volvo Centum
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EU drops 2035 combustion engine ban as global electric vehicle shift faces reset
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Spain to launch €60 monthly nationwide public transport pass, in January
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Montreal’s new rail line is the future
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Swiss government will not be able to subsidise the overnight train connection to Malmö planned from spring 2026
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Deinterlining: simpler subway service, fewer delays (New York City)
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Four proposals to improve the design of fuel economy standards
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Virginia's Long Bridge Project will improve rail capacity around Washington DC
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California High Speed Rail Authority advances track and systems construction procurement
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United Kingdom electric vehicle owners to face pay-per-mile tax
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Tesla registrations were down in France, Sweden, Denmark, and Germany – Norway, however, is bucking the trend, thanks to a tax incentive system that will soon be rolled back
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Beloved cat stationmaster in Japan dies
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The final line in Los Angeles's holy trinity of future rail: Vermont corridor
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Supercritical CO2 is used to extract caffeine from coffee, but this strange phase of carbon dioxide is really weird
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Amtrak steadily continues upgrading Wisconsin stations for level boarding - improving access and travel time
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Around the world in eighty days ... sustainably
21st century version of the Jules Verne classic. No new carbon added to the atmosphere. Piece of cake? Impossible? Doable? Discuss...
21st century version of the Jules Verne classic.
No new carbon added to the atmosphere.
Piece of cake? Impossible? Doable?
Discuss...
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China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past eighteen months, analysis finds
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Club versus country rows often cause friction, but Soren Lerby found a way to satisfy both in 1984. He played for Denmark and FC Bayern Munich on the same day, in different countries.
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“The Edmund Fitzgerald - First divers on the Fitz”
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As the US and the West races to break China's stranglehold over rare earths production, some firms are betting that Greenland will become a new mining frontier
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Norwegian public transport operator Ruter has shared the results of a comprehensive cybersecurity test of electric buses, conducted in an isolated mountain environment
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Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives three days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag
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Europe's animal welfare overhaul is on life support – Denmark's farm minister thinks he can still revive it, one compromise at a time
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A 'death train' is haunting south Florida
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Not all Norwegian folk tales are friendly stories of trolls turning to stone or gnomes stirring porridge – the story of ‘Draugen’
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In-car sat nav? Without a satellite? In 1971? | Tomorrow's World | Retro tech
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Printable aluminum alloy sets strength records, may enable lighter aircraft parts
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The hidden engineering of Niagara Falls
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The genius logic of the NATO phonetic alphabet
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Chinese criminals made more than $1 billion from those annoying texts
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Norway to phase out electric vehicle VAT exemption from 2027 – intends to increase the one-off registration tax for fossil-fuelled passenger cars
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After more than a century of various proposals and planning, Norway has once again officially abandoned the ambitious Stad Ship Tunnel project
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Shipping emissions mandate led to spike in global temperatures
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Helsinki is turning to drones and artificial intelligence to help tackle one of the city's trickiest challenges – keeping traffic moving smoothly
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Eliminating contrails from flying could be incredibly cheap
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Los Angeles Metro's K Line extension to Torrance
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Wall Street’s big bets on AI are driving interest in huge parking lots
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The first ever World Tramdriver Championships
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Hydropower, heat pumps and electric vehicles made Norway a climate darling. Oil and gas exports made it rich. The paradox shaping this country's future – and the world's energy transition.
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How Copenhagen gave cyclists a green wave – traffic lights are synchronised so a rush-hour cyclist at 20km/h can catch green lights all the way
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British Columbia rescuers use helicopter-mounted cell tower to find missing man
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For more than ten years, experts have been painstakingly planning to move three 1,000-year-old vessels—the Oseberg, Gokstad and Tune—about 115 yards to their new home in Oslo
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The country with Europe's most radical climate plan – an interview with Petteri Orpo, prime minister of Finland
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Via, Waymo team up to bring robotaxis to public transit systems
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Fossil fuel decline, though still nascent, is already hitting countries leading the electric vehicle boom like China and Norway
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China’s CATL, the world’s biggest electric battery maker, starts trading in Hong Kong this week, after a $4.6 billion IPO, the biggest so far this year
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"Trucks and Tuks" - A presentation by Christopher Herwig
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