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Saudi Arabia, a country that is roughly 95 percent desert, imports sand from Australia to make concrete, because wind-rounded desert grains are too smooth to bind and …

"content":"Saudi Arabia sits on the largest continuous sand sea on Earth, the Rub' al Khali, an ocean of dunes roughly the ...
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What happened when engineers built a single dam across the neck of a dying inland sea, and the northern lobe rose roughly four metres while fish returned to villages t…

The Kokaral Dam, a 13-kilometre earthen barrier completed in 2005 across the neck of the Aral Sea, raised the North Aral by ...
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Psychology says the hardest part of retirement isn't boredom — it's that for the first time in your adult life nobody needs you to be anywhere at any specific time and yo…

For forty years, you complained about it. The 8:30 meeting. The schedule. The phone that wouldn't stop. Being needed in six ...
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A grid-scale battery ferry roughly 130 metres long is now crossing the Río de la Plata between Argentina and Uruguay carrying about 2,100 passengers on charge alone, …

A 130-metre catamaran built by Incat in Tasmania is now crossing the Río de la Plata between Argentina and Uruguay carrying 2 ...
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Why does a deep-water shark in the Arctic routinely live past 400 years while spending almost all of that time functionally blind and moving barely faster than a …

Radiocarbon dating of eye lenses shows Greenland sharks can live nearly 400 years, growing one centimetre annually in ...