SpaceX Starbase launch facility in Boca Chica, Texas, near the Lower Rio Grande Valley wildlife corridor along the US Mexico border.

Elon Musk admits in February 2026 that convincing married engineers to relocate to Starbase, 40 minutes from Brownsville and near the Mexican border, has become his biggest silent problem

Adrian Villellas
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March 10, 2026 at 8:15 AM

During a recent interview, Elon Musk described SpaceX’s Starbase launch site complex in South Texas as a kind of “technology monastery,” remote and largely…..

Brazilian F-39 Gripen fighter jet assembled at Embraer’s Gavião Peixoto facility as part of Brazil’s partnership with Saab.

Brazil is entering the final stretch of a historic milestone and promises to complete the first F-39 Gripen assembled in the country by the end of March 2026, a step that places it in the select club of supersonic fighter jet manufacturers

ECONEWS
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March 10, 2026 at 6:30 AM

In late March, Brazil plans to roll out its first F-39 Gripen fighter fully assembled on home soil, a sleek supersonic jet that will…..

Arecibo Observatory radio telescope dish in Puerto Rico before its 2020 collapse
Gramma the Galapagos giant tortoise resting in her enclosure at the San Diego Zoo
U.S. military satellite in low Earth orbit using laser communications for secure space-based data links
Lush greenery and landscaped paths inside the Angkor Botanical Garden in Cambodia
Reconstruction of Jurassic ecosystem showing large predators hunting newly hatched sauropod dinosaurs
Male zebra finch showing orange pheomelanin feathers used in a new study on red hair pigment and oxidative stress
Detailed scientific map showing mountains, valleys, and buried rivers beneath Antarctica’s thick ice sheet
NASA Artemis II crew training for the first crewed lunar mission since 1972.
USS Dewey destroyer docked in Singapore with visible rust streaks along its gray hull
Brain scan highlighting the hippocampus region involved in spatial navigation and novelty detection

Science

Brain scan image highlighting memory-related regions in a study on cannabis use among older adults

Colorado scientists discover that cannabis could benefit memory and brain size in older people

Sonia Ramírez
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March 9, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Forget the old joke about cannabis frying your brain. A large new study of more…..

Arecibo Observatory radio telescope dish in Puerto Rico before its 2020 collapse

Before collapsing, the observatory detected 100 signals that it suspected came from extraterrestrial beings

Adrian Villellas
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March 9, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Have you ever imagined your old home computer quietly listening for aliens while you checked…..

Reconstruction of Jurassic ecosystem showing large predators hunting newly hatched sauropod dinosaurs

They reconstruct the Jurassic ecosystem and discover that giant baby dinosaurs left to fend for themselves were the favorite prey of large predators.

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March 8, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Tiny, newly-hatched, long-necked dinosaurs may have been the main fuel that kept Jurassic predators going,…..

Male zebra finch showing orange pheomelanin feathers used in a new study on red hair pigment and oxidative stress

What they discovered in a bird could change what we know about redheads

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March 8, 2026 at 12:38 PM

If you have red hair or freckles in the family, you have probably heard that…..

NASA Artemis II crew training for the first crewed lunar mission since 1972.
Brain scan highlighting the hippocampus region involved in spatial navigation and novelty detection

By studying the human brain, they discover the switch that activates its “navigation system”

Sonia Ramírez
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March 8, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Have you ever walked home on “autopilot” and barely remembered the route, then felt totally…..

Fossil bone disks once labeled as mammoth vertebrae later identified as ancient whale bones in Alaska

For 70 years, they believed they were mammoth bones… until they discovered they belonged to whales from 1,800 years ago

Sonia Ramírez
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March 7, 2026 at 3:21 PM

For a moment, it looked like woolly mammoths had clung to life in Alaska until…..

Stonehenge megaliths on Salisbury Plain, where research suggests Neolithic humans transported the massive stones rather than glaciers.

For years we believed that glaciers carried the stones to Stonehenge, but now science says it was the work of other creatures

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March 7, 2026 at 3:00 PM

A new geological study of river sands around Stonehenge has delivered some of the clearest…..

Bowhead whale swimming in Arctic waters, species studied for extreme longevity and DNA repair

An American study shows that humans could live up to 200 years if its method were applied

Sonia Ramírez
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March 7, 2026 at 11:45 AM

For most of us, living past one hundred already sounds like science fiction. Now imagine…..

Hubble Space Telescope image of Cloud-9, a starless hydrogen gas cloud dominated by dark matter near Messier 94

NASA accidentally discovers a starless cloud in deep space

Adrian Villellas
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March 6, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Astronomers have spotted something in the sky that looks like a galaxy that never managed…..

Mobility

Economy

SpaceX Starbase launch facility in Boca Chica, Texas, near the Lower Rio Grande Valley wildlife corridor along the US Mexico border.

Elon Musk admits in February 2026 that convincing married engineers to relocate to Starbase, 40 minutes from Brownsville and near the Mexican border, has become his biggest silent problem

Adrian Villellas
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March 10, 2026 at 8:15 AM

During a recent interview, Elon Musk described SpaceX’s Starbase launch site complex in South Texas…..

Mining operations in Victoria, Australia, where antimony and critical minerals are emerging as key resources for clean energy technologies.

From the gold that sparked the rush of the 1850s to antimony, which now accounts for 5% of the world’s supply: Victoria’s surprising new mining revolution

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March 9, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Gold put Victoria on the mining map. But the minerals driving today’s clean tech boom…..

SSI payment schedule 2026 showing why no separate Supplemental Security Income payment arrives in March

Goodbye to the “normal” SSI payment in March: that’s why millions of beneficiaries believe their money has suddenly disappeared

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March 9, 2026 at 10:27 AM

Did your SSI payment seem to vanish this March? For nearly 7.5 million people who…..

Elon Musk stands beside Tesla’s Cybercab concept vehicle at night with the door open, highlighting delays in robotaxi production.

Musk admits on X that production of the Cybercab robotaxi and Optimus humanoid is not taking off, and that could prove very costly

Sonia Ramírez
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March 7, 2026 at 10:45 AM

Musk did not simply promise new gadgets. He painted a vision of ultra-cheap robotaxis that…..

Portrait of oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, whose famous quote about money still resonates today

The disturbing quote from John D. Rockefeller that explains why you are never satisfied with what you have

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March 6, 2026 at 12:30 PM

More than a century ago, oil magnate John D. Rockefeller was asked how much money…..

Drill cores from deep gold exploration project at Wangu gold field in Hunan Province, China

A hidden deposit 2,000 meters underground could contain one of the largest gold reserves on the planet

Sonia Ramírez
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March 5, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Deep under the hills of central China, geologists say they have located more than one…..

Stacks of boxed NABU retro computers stored on the second floor of a rural Massachusetts barn

What looked like an old farmhouse about to collapse concealed 2,200 retro computers stacked on the second floor… The lot weighed 22 tons and sold on eBay in a matter of days

Adrian Villellas
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March 3, 2026 at 7:26 PM

For more than two decades, over 2,200 unused NABU personal computers sat stacked in an…..

Japanese drillship Chikyu conducting ultra deep sea drilling for rare earth elements near Minamitorishima Island

Japan has just lowered its drill to 19,685 feet below the ocean with the Chikyu, and the message to China is clear: we are going after rare earths even if they are 1,180 miles from Tokyo

Kevin Montien
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March 3, 2026 at 1:00 PM

Far out in the Pacific, near the tiny coral atoll of Minamitorishima Island about 1,900…..

Open pit view of the Dadonggou gold mine in Liaoning, where China identified a 1,444 ton gold deposit.

China has just found a 1,444-ton gold “monster” valued at more than $150 billion, and the strangest thing is that they say it is the largest find since 1949

Adrian Villellas
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February 26, 2026 at 2:33 PM

China has confirmed the largest gold discovery in its modern history in the northeastern province…..

Per Geijer rare earth deposit near Kiruna in northern Sweden, operated by LKAB.

China processes around 90% of the world’s rare earths, but Sweden has just pulled an “ace up its sleeve” with 2.2 million tons of oxides in Per Geijer

Adrian Villellas
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February 24, 2026 at 7:39 PM

High above the Arctic Circle, a long-running iron mine in northern Sweden has quietly revealed…..

Environment

Gramma the Galapagos giant tortoise resting in her enclosure at the San Diego Zoo

Farewell to a century-old legend: Gramma, the Galapagos tortoise at San Diego Zoo, has died at the age of 141

Sonia Ramírez
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March 8, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Gramma, a Galápagos giant tortoise, has died at an estimated age of 141, according to…..

Lush greenery and landscaped paths inside the Angkor Botanical Garden in Cambodia

The “secret” garden of Angkor that has already attracted 600,000 visitors in just three years (and almost no one talks about it)

Sonia Ramírez
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March 8, 2026 at 4:08 PM

Less than three years after its official opening, the Angkor Botanical Garden inside the Angkor…..

Detailed scientific map showing mountains, valleys, and buried rivers beneath Antarctica’s thick ice sheet
Chinese mitten crab with distinctive hairy claws photographed in a European river habitat

The invasive Chinese crab adapts to almost any environment, feeds on invertebrates, fry, and even protected species, and competes with local fauna as if the river were its own

Sonia Ramírez
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March 7, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Walk along a quiet canal or past a city bridge and the water can look…..

Donkey standing near a dry waterhole in the Australian outback

Australia is culling thousands of donkeys so that dogs can save farms and water

Sonia Ramírez
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March 7, 2026 at 6:30 AM

In the remote interior of Australia, helicopters still fly low over red soil, shooting at…..

Rescued Leopardus pardalis ocelot after being found weak on a roadside near Fusagasugá Colombia

He saw it lying on the side of the road, picked it up, fed it, and kept it safe during the trip: that’s how the rescue of the Leopardus pardalis ocelot in Fusagasugá began

Sonia Ramírez
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March 6, 2026 at 9:18 AM

On a long drive from Colombia’s Caribbean coast to the interior, a traveler spotted something…..

Fishing hut on stilts at Hermanicky Pond near Ostrava, linked by a narrow walkway over calm water at sunset.

Ostrava has its own “secret Venice” that almost no one knows about: 70 fishermen’s huts on stilts, set back from the shore and connected by narrow walkways

Adrian Villellas
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March 5, 2026 at 3:00 PM

From a distance, Heřmanický Pond on the edge of Ostrava looks like a quiet, flat…..

Capybara resting on a muddy riverbank beside a caiman in a South American wetland

They have shared rivers for decades, and no one understands why alligators do not attack capybaras. Now scientists believe they have the answer

Adrian Villellas
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March 5, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Scroll through your feed and you will probably see it sooner or later. A capybara…..