Nearly 40,000 fires are incinerating Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. Apocalyptic as this sounds, science suggests it’s not too late to save the Amazon. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/amazon-rainforest-fires-burning-4-reasons-why…
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A Rail Gun the Size of Manhattan Could Reveal the Secrets of the Higgs Boson
A giant linear collider the size of Manhattan could finally help us find new physics, scientists argue. Source: https://www.livescience.com/physicists-want-a-subatomic-rail-gun.html
How Sydney Destroyed Its Trams For Love of the Car
An anonymous reader shares a report from The Guardian about the questionable decision in the 1950s to get rid of Sydney’s trams in favor of private cars. From the report: In the late 1950s Sydney ripped up its tram network, once one of the largest in the world. Nearly 1,000 trams — some only a few years old — were rolled…
Small Slug Blamed For Power Failure On Japan’s High-Speed Rail Network
Last month, Japan’s high-speed rail network suffered a massive power outage that cancelled a total of 26 trains and delayed an estimated 12,000 passengers. The cause of the outage? A single, small slug. CNN reports: During a later inspection of the network’s electrical equipment, the company’s engineers discovered a dead slug, measuring about 2 to 3 centimeters (0.7 to 1.1 inches)…
‘Boring Company’ Video Suggests Company Is Abandoning Underground Rails
An anonymous reader quotes Business Insider: Shortly after news broke that Elon Musk’s Boring Company landed its first tunnel-building project in Las Vegas, it released a video of two Teslas racing in its tunnel near Los Angeles — one using the roads, and the other using a Boring Company tunnel. The Tesla in the tunnel took one minute and 36 seconds…
China Unveils 373 MPH Maglev Train Prototype
China has unveiled a new floating bullet train capable of hitting speeds of about 372 mph (600 km/h). CNN reports: On Thursday, the body prototype for the country’s latest high-speed magnetic-levitation (maglev) train project rolled off the assembly line in the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao. Developed by the state-owned China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC) — the world’s largest supplier…