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Spare parts stripped from a dead Airbus A380 sell to the airlines still flying them, which is why crews at Tarbes in France spent months unbolting the first retired superjumbo instead of cutting it up — recovering more than 90 percent of the roughly 250-ton airframe as whole engines, landing gear and remelted aluminum
2+ hour ago (291+ words) As airlines retire their aging A380s, salvage operations in France have discovered a lucrative aftermarket: stripping these superjumbos yields more valuable parts whole than melted down. By Science Blog Editorial Team Published September 14, 2026 · How we edit The Airbus A380 was supposed to…...
When pandemic traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge fell to levels not seen since the 1950s, San Francisco's white-crowned sparrows quickly began singing more softly — yet in the quieter city their songs could be heard from roughly twice as far away
2+ week, 5+ day ago (663+ words) In the spring of 2020, San Francisco went quiet. The parks were closed, the roads through them empty, and the low mechanical hum that had covered the city for decades drained away. Published August 25, 2026 · How we edit That is the heart…...
In the 1980s the US Navy trained belugas to dive past a thousand feet through freezing water and find test torpedoes with no tracking beacon, because they could do it faster and cheaper than any machine at the time.
3+ week, 3+ day ago (549+ words) When Cold War weapons sank into the abyss, the Navy discovered its most reliable retriever had a blowhole. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Edited by Mal James Published August 20, 2026 · How we edit At a time when the US Navy could…...
A sheet of paper is about a tenth of a millimetre thick, but doubling it only twenty-seven times builds a stack taller than Mount Everest — fifteen more folds carry it past the Moon
3+ week, 6+ day ago (712+ words) By Science Blog Editorial Team Published August 18, 2026 · How we edit Picture a single sheet of copy paper. Fold it in half, then in half again, and keep going, twenty-seven times. How tall do you think it gets? Most people reach…...
A juvenile bar-tailed godwit flew 13,560 kilometres from Alaska to Tasmania in October 2022 without landing once — 11 days continuously over the Pacific with no food or rest, despite never having made the journey before.
4+ week, 1+ day ago (815+ words) Satellite-tagged juvenile godwit B6 remained airborne from Alaska to Tasmania for 11 days and one hour, while later track models place the distance between about 13,391 and 13,560 kilometres. By Natural History · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 15, 2026 · How we edit B6 was one of…...