Every cup of coffee leaves behind a mountain of waste at the other end of the supply chain. A team of scientists in Costa Rica decided to see whether that waste could do some good, and the results surprised even them. 30 Truckloads, One Bold Experiment Researchers from ETH Zurich and the University of HawaiÊ»i spread 30 dump-truck loads of coffee pulp across a … [Read more...] about Researchers Dumped 30 Truckloads of Coffee Waste on Barren Land — Two Years Later, It Was a Small Forest
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Drilling Has Begun at Turkey’s ‘Noah’s Ark’ Formation. Here’s What’s Actually Been Found
For the first time since the 1980s, drill bits are going into the ground at one of the world's most debated "biblical" sites — and this time, one of them reportedly broke. What's Actually Happening An international team has begun core drilling at the Durupınar Formation, a boat-shaped mound in eastern Turkey's AÄŸrı province, about 29 kilometers south of Mount Ararat. The … [Read more...] about Drilling Has Begun at Turkey’s ‘Noah’s Ark’ Formation. Here’s What’s Actually Been Found
New research says rare meteorite struck Mexico and dust, not sulfur, drove dinosaur die-off
The asteroid that ended the age of dinosaurs left almost nothing of itself behind — it vaporized on impact. But a new study says scientists have finally pinned down what kind of object it was, and the answer complicates a decades-old assumption about how it killed. Tracing an Object That No Longer Exists The Chicxulub impactor struck what is now Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula … [Read more...] about New research says rare meteorite struck Mexico and dust, not sulfur, drove dinosaur die-off
A Rock in a California Creek Turned Out to Be an Ice Age Mastodon’s Tooth
Brigid Lynch was surveying a creek for frog habitat when a lumpy, oddly textured object caught her eye. A few photos and a reverse image search later, it was identified as one of the best-preserved mastodon molars the Bay Area has produced. A Frog Survey Turns Up a Mastodon Lynch, a geomorphologist with Balance Hydrologics, was working in a Midpeninsula Regional Open … [Read more...] about A Rock in a California Creek Turned Out to Be an Ice Age Mastodon’s Tooth
Scientists think humans could live on the moon. One obstacle stands in the way
Water, not power, turns out to be the resource that could keep humans off the moon for good — or at least keep them from building anything bigger than a small town. The Study Behind the Claim A paper published 14 September 2026 in Frontiers in Space Technologies, titled "No Cities on the Moon: A Billion Tons of Water Is Not Enough for Sustainability," was written by … [Read more...] about Scientists think humans could live on the moon. One obstacle stands in the way