Mary, the escaped Tasmanian devil, after being found alive following 15 days in bushland near Paradise Country on Australia's Gold Coast.

A camera captured Mary, a two-year-old Tasmanian devil, roaming the park at 4 a.m. She had escaped with an “unusually large” leap and survived for 15 days amid residential neighborhoods, thickets, cars, and real dangers

Sonia Ramírez
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July 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Mary, a two-year-old Tasmanian devil, has been found alive after spending 15 days outside her enclosure at Paradise Country on Australia’s Gold Coast. The…..

Illustration of the Milky Way's motion toward the Great Attractor, a massive gravitational region located about 150 to 250 million light-years away.

Our galaxy isn’t stationary but hurtling at full speed toward a hidden gravitational anomaly located between 150 and 250 million light-years away

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July 2, 2026 at 10:15 AM

Even when your phone is lying on a table, it is not truly standing still. Earth spins, orbits the Sun, and rides inside the…..

Green aurora australis glowing above Earth as the International Space Station passes over the planet at night.
Ants swarm potato chip crumbs on sandy ground, illustrating how junk food scraps can distract ants from moving seeds.
Macro close-up of a cockroach facing the camera, used to illustrate research on bacterial DNA fragments embedded in cockroach genomes.
Cozumel dwarf fox resting on pale limestone ground in Cozumel, Mexico, in the first confirmed modern photograph of the rare canid.
Wide coastal view of Giant’s Causeway with hexagonal basalt stones, tide pools, and Atlantic waves in Northern Ireland.
Aerial view of farmland and wooded rural land in Georgia at sunset.
Large rooftop and ground-mounted solar panels at a residential property in Puerto Rico, with workers on site.
Wide view of red-rock canyons and desert cliffs in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah.
Side-by-side satellite comparison of San Carlos Reservoir in Arizona, showing much higher water levels in June 2023 and severe shrinkage by May 2026.
People walk through a flooded neighborhood street after intense rainfall.

Science

Illustration of the Milky Way's motion toward the Great Attractor, a massive gravitational region located about 150 to 250 million light-years away.

Our galaxy isn’t stationary but hurtling at full speed toward a hidden gravitational anomaly located between 150 and 250 million light-years away

ECONEWS
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July 2, 2026 at 10:15 AM

Even when your phone is lying on a table, it is not truly standing still……

Seismic activity visualization illustrating small earthquakes detected before the magnitude 8.8 Kamchatka earthquake using waveform cross-correlation analysis.

It all began with dozens of small earthquakes that no one detected; now, a 64-page study suggests that they may have been a precursor to the massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck nine days earlier

Adrian Villellas
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July 2, 2026 at 6:30 AM

The magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck offshore Kamchatka on July 29, 2025, was not just…..

Illustration of an ear connected to the brain by glowing neural signals, representing tinnitus and hearing-related brain activity.
Anopheles mosquito feeding on human skin, the malaria-carrying insect targeted in sterile male release research.

Science discovers the “point of no return” for mosquitoes: the mathematical trick that could forever change the fight against malaria

Kevin Montien
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July 1, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Malaria control often comes down to a frustrating race against mosquitoes. Nets, sprays, medicines, and…..

Ants swarm potato chip crumbs on sandy ground, illustrating how junk food scraps can distract ants from moving seeds.
Macro close-up of a cockroach facing the camera, used to illustrate research on bacterial DNA fragments embedded in cockroach genomes.

Cockroaches already seemed indestructible, but a new genomic study has just revealed something even stranger: they harbor thousands of fragments of bacterial DNA hidden within their own genome

Adrian Villellas
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July 1, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Cockroaches already have a reputation for surviving almost anything. Now, a new genome study suggests…..

Wide coastal view of Giant’s Causeway with hexagonal basalt stones, tide pools, and Atlantic waves in Northern Ireland.
Researchers conducting fieldwork in Greenland for a study on ancient middens preserved by permafrost.
Sunlight filters through a lone tree and casts long shadows across a grassy hillside, illustrating ground-level light and shade in Switzerland.

Switzerland just scanned what’s under everyone’s feet, turning secret geology into a national GPS for planners

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June 29, 2026 at 7:30 PM

How much sunlight reaches the ground beneath a forest, beside a highway, or on a…..

Dinner table with salads, bread, water glasses, and plates of food, reflecting research on hidden food chemicals.

Mobility

Bridge columns under construction on the Ganqimaodu to Gashuun Sukhait cross-border railway between China and Mongolia

China’s wild idea: a 1,118-mile rail bridge across the Gobi that dares gravity, sandstorms, and basic common sense

Kevin Montien
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June 22, 2026 at 10:15 AM

A new rail bridge rising out of the Gobi has been described as a 1,118-mile mega-project that…..

MV Black Marlin heavy-lift ship carrying large marine cargo on its deck during transport.

A heavy-lift ship is heading to Hobart to pick up the world’s largest battery-electric ferry for South America, and the scale point is that the vessel is about 430 feet long and built to carry around 2,100 passengers on the Argentina-Uruguay route

Kevin Montien
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June 21, 2026 at 6:30 AM

A heavy-lift ship is heading to Hobart, Tasmania, for an unusual job. The MV Black Marlin will…..

Economy

Rare-earth mining exploration site in Campo de Montiel, Spain, where a major monazite deposit could supply European industry.

Neither the U.S. nor Iran: Spain discovers a rare-earth gold mine capable of meeting 33% of Europe’s needs and revolutionizes the geopolitical landscape of the green transition

Sonia Ramírez
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June 26, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Europe’s clean-energy race may have a new flashpoint in central Spain. In Campo de Montiel,…..

Rendering of Freedom Ship, a proposed floating city vessel designed to carry 80,000 people with schools and a hospital

The world’s largest floating city is back in action: 80,000 residents, a stadium, schools and even eight helipads

Adrian Villellas
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June 25, 2026 at 4:58 AM

It sounds like something pulled from a science fiction movie. A vessel about one mile…..

A series of beaver-built dams in a Swiss stream corridor, showing how these structures create wetlands and trap sediments.

European beavers turn out to be secret carbon hoarders, stashing 26 % more than any human climate model guessed

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June 21, 2026 at 6:30 PM

No one expected the humble beaver dam to look like climate infrastructure. Yet a new…..

The Iconic Tower rising above the Central Business District in Egypt’s New Administrative Capital, a massive urban development project in the desert.

Egypt’s dead-serious plan: build an entire desert city from scratch and crown it with a 1,312-foot skyscraper that nobody saw coming

Sonia Ramírez
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June 21, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Egypt is building a new capital from scratch in the desert about 28 miles east…..

Jeddah Tower under construction in Saudi Arabia after surpassing 100 floors on its path to becoming the world's tallest building.
SpaceX Starbase launch facility in Boca Chica, Texas, near the Lower Rio Grande Valley wildlife corridor along the US Mexico border.

Elon Musk admits 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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June 18, 2026 at 1:23 PM

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

Close-up of smooth, rounded desert sand grains compared to rough, angular construction sand used in concrete manufacturing.

Saudi Arabia imports sand even though it’s a desert country, but desert sand is too smooth and rounded to make strong concrete

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June 13, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Saudi Arabia has some of the largest deserts on Earth, but in 2023 it still…..

ExxonMobil office building facade showing company logo as firm shifts legal home to Texas

ExxonMobil is leaving New Jersey as its legal home after more than 140 years, and what matters isn’t the new address but what it signals about taxes, headquarters power, and corporate strategy

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June 12, 2026 at 6:30 PM

ExxonMobil shareholders have approved moving the oil giant’s legal home from New Jersey to Texas,…..

Myanmar officials examine a massive rough ruby discovered in Mogok, highlighting the scale of the 11,000-carat gemstone.

An 11,000-carat ruby find (about 4.85 pounds) reshapes mining in Myanmar, and the giant stone reopens the debate over value, traceability, and the real price of gemstones

Sonia Ramírez
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June 9, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Miners near Mogok, Myanmar, have unearthed an 11,000-carat rough ruby, a find large enough to…..

A small Celtic gold coin found in soil during an archaeological discovery near the D35 highway in the Czech Republic.

Environment

Clean globe visualization showing a band of unusually warm water across the equatorial Pacific linked to El Niño.

The enormous mass of warm water in the Pacific that has just “woken up” and could influence storms, wildfires, monsoons, and temperatures through 2027

Adrian Villellas
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July 1, 2026 at 7:30 PM

El Niño has returned to the tropical Pacific, and this one is already raising concern…..

Cozumel dwarf fox resting on pale limestone ground in Cozumel, Mexico, in the first confirmed modern photograph of the rare canid.

An animal about the size of a small house cat has just caused quite a stir in Mexico after becoming the first known photographic evidence of the mysterious Cozumel dwarf fox

Adrian Villellas
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July 1, 2026 at 4:24 AM

For more than two decades, one of the world’s rarest wild dogs seemed to have…..

Aerial view of farmland and wooded rural land in Georgia at sunset.

Georgia has just created a $2 million fund to save farms before these centuries-old fields are turned into housing developments, warehouses, and data centers

Kevin Montien
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June 30, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Georgia is trying to protect working farms before more fields become subdivisions, warehouses, and data…..

Wide view of red-rock canyons and desert cliffs in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah.

Everything pointed to another cut, but Grand Staircase-Escalante has just narrowly avoided, at the last minute, a decision that would have forever changed one of the most impressive natural monuments in the United States

Sonia Ramírez
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June 30, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah has survived another attempt to weaken the rules…..

Side-by-side satellite comparison of San Carlos Reservoir in Arizona, showing much higher water levels in June 2023 and severe shrinkage by May 2026.

NASA photos reveal San Carlos Reservoir shrinking to a mud-ring, visual proof that drought plus demand equals trouble

Adrian Villellas
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June 30, 2026 at 12:30 PM

San Carlos Reservoir in Arizona has become a stark snapshot of what drought can do…..

People walk through a flooded neighborhood street after intense rainfall.

Sponge-city tech is teaching concrete to drink stormwater like a thirsty park — and it can’t happen fast enough

Sonia Ramírez
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June 30, 2026 at 10:15 AM

Cities around the world are trying to become more like sponges. The idea sounds simple…..

Colorful coral reef with tropical fish under clear blue water, illustrating coral habitats that may better withstand ocean warming.

Coral reefs seemed doomed by marine heatwaves, but a new global map has just identified 64,200 square miles that may still have a real chance

Kevin Montien
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June 30, 2026 at 8:45 AM

For years, coral reef news has felt like one long alarm bell. Marine heatwaves have…..

Construction crews in hard hats stand inside a large, concrete lined tunnel, a visual of Europe’s hidden underground routes.

Switzerland has excavated a “second country” beneath the Alps: more than 1,400 tunnels and about 1,243 miles beneath the rock to change the climate… without almost anyone noticing when traveling

Adrian Villellas
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June 30, 2026 at 4:48 AM

If you ride a train through Switzerland, there is a moment when daylight disappears, your…..