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Sep 18, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Edited by Mal James

    In January 2026, European astronomers reported running a pattern-spotting program across nearly 100 million image cutouts from the Hubble archive, finishing the job in two and a half days. More than 800 of the objects it flagged had never been documented in scientific literature. (opens the original)

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    As reported by ESA Hubble, more than 800 objects that had never appeared in the scientific literature, pulled from data that had been sitting in an archive for years. It took two and a half days. Not two and a half years of grant applications and follow-up work. Two and a half days of computer time. The work came from two European Space Agency astronomers, David O’Ryan and Pablo Gómez. They pointed a new AI tool at the Hubble archive and let it sort through nearly 100 million small image cutouts

  2. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Edited by Mal James

    A Wisconsin family sold 173 acres at Port Washington for 10.2 million dollars, ground with a fair market value of 590,000. Developers spent at least 125 million dollars buying more than 1,500 acres around the project, and a 672-acre data center is now going up about a mile inland from Lake Michigan. (opens the original)

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    One family in Port Washington, Wisconsin sold 173 acres for $10.2 million. On the county’s books, that same ground was valued at $590,000. That comes to roughly $59,000 an acre, about 17 times the assessed figure, according to a Wisconsin Watch analysis of Ozaukee County property records. It is tempting to read it as pure luck. Somebody’s farmland turned out to be worth twenty times what the tax roll said, the buyers overpaid, and a few landowners got rich. Parts of that are true. But the 17x ga

  3. Article · Sep 16, 2026 · Edited by Mal James

    In 2018, a gas pipeline company took an easement across a Virginia family's 560-acre property on Bent Mountain. After years of fighting over compensation, the family won a $523,000 jury award—but the company kept its right to use the land. (opens the original)

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    When a pipeline company condemns a strip of your land and the pipeline is already going in, what are you actually fighting for? Not the land. By the time the Terry family walked into federal court in Roanoke, that had been decided somewhere else, and it was never going to be reopened in front of a jury. All that was left on the table was money. That distinction is the whole story of what happened to a 560-acre tract on Bent Mountain, in Roanoke County, Virginia, land the family had held for seve

  4. Article · Sep 16, 2026 · Edited by Mal James

    A driver hauling an excavator struck more than a dozen overpasses along 60 miles of the New York State Thruway. The driver did not stop or report it, only realizing the damage when troopers flagged him down at a tandem lot. (opens the original)

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    A truck wedged under a bridge, its roof peeled back like a sardine can, is such a familiar sight that the Australian city of Melbourne turned one bridge into a folk legend. The Montague Street rail bridge has claimed so many trucks that someone built a website tracking how many days since it was last hit. Bridge strikes are not exotic. They are one of the most repetitive failures in road transport. Which brings us to a stretch of Central New York in the spring of 2026, and a load that never shou

  5. Article · Sep 16, 2026 · Edited by Mal James

    In 2025, researchers ground retired wind turbine blades into powder, stirred it into a gel and set it into an insulation composite. The composite combined low density with much greater compressibility than many of the insulating aerogels and composites it was compared with, squashing to a fifth of i (opens the original)

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    A wind turbine blade is basically glass fibre set in hardened resin. The fibres give it strength, the resin holds them in place, and the two are bonded so tightly that a blade can survive wind, rain and stress. That same toughness is the problem once the blade comes down. Thermoset epoxy does not melt back into a workable liquid, and its stable chemical bonds are difficult to break. So retired blades are typically cut into sections and sent to landfill. That is the waste a group of researchers d

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