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Two 40,000-year-old bird figurines carved from mammoth ivory and discovered in Hohle Fels Cave in Germany.

Archaeologists have uncovered two tiny bird figurines carved from mammoth ivory in Hohle Fels Cave in southwestern Germany dating back about 40,000 years

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September 1, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Microscopic image of an ancient zircon grain from the Jack Hills region of Western Australia.

A zircon grain found in Western Australia’s Jack Hills is 4.4 billion years old, making it the oldest known terrestrial mineral grain

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September 1, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Todd Stevens and Xavier Duffy examining artifacts recovered from the 1680 Phoenix shipwreck near the Isles of Scilly.

A handwritten note reading “Cap Wildy lost” led divers to a 1680 shipwreck, and the recovered objects are finally becoming public history

By ECONEWS
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September 1, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Miami-Dade firefighter comforting Jack after finding the black dog inside a dumpster.

Firefighters answered a call about ducklings trapped in trash and expected another routine animal rescue, but by the time the tiny birds were safe the crew had made an unexpected new friend

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September 1, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Marine life around an offshore wind turbine foundation in the waters off Taiwan.

Engineers drove enormous steel foundations directly into bare Atlantic sand to hold offshore wind turbines upright, and what happens around those artificial structures afterward is changing the seabed in ways nobody designed them for

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September 1, 2026 at 6:30 AM
NASA's Dragonfly rotorcraft flying above the surface of Saturn's moon Titan in an artist's concept.

NASA’s Dragonfly is being built to fly on Titan, where thick air and weak gravity could make a truck-sized robot easier to lift

By ECONEWS
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August 31, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Cows and calves grazing beneath CattleTracker solar panels at Silicon Ranch in Tennessee.

A Tennessee solar farm is letting cows graze beneath moving panels, and the experiment could change what happens to farmland under clean energy

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August 31, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Hands showing joint swelling and deformity associated with rheumatoid arthritis.

Scientists spent years testing a phenomenon researchers thought they understood, but the results revealed an unexpected mechanism hiding underneath and raised new questions about how the system actually works

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August 31, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Chondrosia reniformis, commonly known as the chicken kidney sponge, growing on a rocky marine surface.

Scientists placed 42 sea sponges inside a polluted Spanish port and left them there for 455 days, but when they returned one species had thrived while four others had died

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August 31, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Bajau diver spearfishing underwater without breathing equipment in Southeast Asia.

Most people struggle to hold their breath underwater for two minutes, but the Bajau can spend up to five hours a day diving and working beneath the sea after generations of life built around the ocean

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August 30, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Vertical solar fence with photovoltaic panels installed along the boundary of a residential property.

It had been standing beside a backyard fence for years looking like an ordinary part of the property, but when someone finally investigated what it was doing there the answer turned out to be far stranger than expected

By ECONEWS
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August 30, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Overturned fish tanker beside Lookingglass Creek in Oregon after crashing while transporting young Chinook salmon.

A truck carrying young salmon crashed beside an Oregon creek and suddenly released thousands of fish somewhere they were never supposed to be, turning a highway accident into one of the strangest wildlife stories of the year

By ECONEWS
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August 30, 2026 at 12:35 PM
Chessie tunnel-boring machine built for the Parallel Thimble Shoal Tunnel beneath Chesapeake Bay.

Engineers built a gigantic machine to work beneath Chesapeake waters where ordinary construction equipment cannot reach, and the scale of what it must move shows why some infrastructure projects require machines almost as impressive as the structures themselves

By ECONEWS
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August 30, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Living green roof covering Ford's Rouge factory complex in Dearborn, Michigan.

Ford covered the roof of its enormous Rouge factory with living plants instead of conventional roofing, and years later the industrial site has become an unlikely habitat for birds above one of America’s most famous car plants

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August 29, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Ship operating beside an offshore wind turbine in dense fog at sea.

Ships sailing between offshore wind turbines face a problem that barely existed a generation ago, and with thousands more giant towers heading to European waters authorities are rethinking how vessels navigate through these artificial forests

By ECONEWS
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August 29, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Reconstruction of Eoceras shaanxiense, an early Cambrian cephalopod with a straight chambered shell.

Scientists opened a window into life more than 500 million years ago with an unusually preserved Cambrian fossil, and one tiny anatomical detail may help explain how a major feature of modern animals first appeared

By ECONEWS
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August 29, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Illustration of Earth and the Moon showing the celestial relationship that gradually affects Earth's rotation.

Earth may have spent roughly a billion years with days stuck near 19 hours long, and scientists think an extraordinary tug-of-war involving the Moon and the atmosphere temporarily stopped the planet’s rotation from slowing normally

By ECONEWS
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August 29, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Fin whale swimming near the ocean surface and releasing a powerful blow.

The fin whale can grow longer than a city bus and race through the ocean at remarkable speeds despite weighing tens of tons, yet this enormous animal remains one of the least noticed giants swimming through our seas

By ECONEWS
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August 29, 2026 at 7:00 AM
American crocodile hatchlings emerging from their eggs at Turkey Point in Florida.

Florida’s Turkey Point nuclear plant became a refuge for American crocodiles, but its 168 miles of cooling canals left a salty problem underground

By ECONEWS
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August 28, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Asa, a white rabbit, inside the small cage where he was found in Indonesia.

A surfer spotted a rabbit living inside a hanging cage and initially thought he could keep walking, but one closer look at the animal changed what happened next and turned an ordinary day into a rescue

By ECONEWS
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August 28, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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