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Tiny ocean swirls smaller than a coin alter climate, carbon, and nutrients within a single year through deep mixing of water layers

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August 8, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Mouse performing a touchscreen selective attention task used to study how the brain filters visual distractions.

Silencing ancient brainstem neurons made mice far more distractible, the first evidence that evolution kept an old attention circuit alongside newer brain systems

By ECONEWS
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August 8, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Natural-color view of crescent Mars captured by NASA's Psyche spacecraft during its May 2026 gravity-assist flyby.

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft borrowed Mars’ gravity in May 2026, gaining a thousand miles per hour and testing instruments built to study a metal-rich asteroid

By ECONEWS
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August 8, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Satellite view of Antarctic sea ice in the Southern Ocean, where Antarctic Bottom Water forms and begins its deep-ocean circulation.

Antarctic Bottom Water shrunk by 2.9 percent between 2002 and 2023, a hidden ocean mass that fills forty percent of the global sea and is losing volume

By ECONEWS
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August 8, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Illustration of Earth's molten outer core with ESA Swarm satellites monitoring changes in the planet's magnetic field.

Around 2010, iron-rich liquid beneath the Pacific switched direction inside Earth’s outer core, a reversal that peaked then weakened again by 2020

By ECONEWS
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August 8, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Researchers operating a neutron scattering instrument used to detect deep quantum entanglement inside a strange metal crystal.

Nine quantum components act together in a strange metal sample, showing how a solid you could hold reveals the hidden teamwork of the quantum world

By ECONEWS
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August 7, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Bridgestone AirFree airless tires powering an autonomous electric shuttle during commercial service in Higashiomi, Japan.

Bridgestone has put its airless AirFree tire to work for the first time, powering slow 12-mph autonomous shuttles for elderly residents in Higashiomi, Japan

By ECONEWS
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August 7, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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In 1946, Argentina released just 20 beavers in Tierra del Fuego to start a fur trade, and the failed experiment now costs the country $66.6 million a year

By ECONEWS
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August 7, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Orange peels covering a barren pasture in Costa Rica during the 1998 forest restoration experiment

In 1998, about 1,000 truckloads of orange peels were dumped on a barren pasture used for grazing livestock in Costa Rica, and what scientists discovered 15 years later was so unexpected that they had trouble recognizing the place

By ECONEWS
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August 7, 2026 at 1:40 PM
An African spurred tortoise stands beside the entrance to its burrow in Senegal's Sahel region.

A viral story claims 500 tortoises turned Sahara sand green in five years, but no scientist, agency, or satellite image can verify that the experiment ever happened

By ECONEWS
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August 7, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Discarded tires lie scattered across the seabed at Florida's failed Osborne Tire Reef project.

In the early 1970s, Florida dumped between 1 million and 2 million tires into the Atlantic to build an artificial reef, and the plan turned into an ecological disaster

By ECONEWS
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August 7, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Battery pack from a Kia e-Niro electric vehicle, the model that recorded the highest battery health in a study of nearly 10,000 used EV battery tests.

A study of nearly 10,000 battery tests found used EV batteries hold up far better than feared, with the Kia e-Niro still at 97% capacity after 62,000 miles

By ECONEWS
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August 7, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Permeable sponge pavement installed in Marrakech as part of urban climate resilience efforts to improve drainage and reduce heat.

Morocco is testing a porous ‘sponge’ pavement to replace scorching black asphalt in Marrakech and Agadir, and pilot data show it can run up to 16°F cooler

By ECONEWS
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August 6, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Tornyol Systems co-founder Alex Toussaint demonstrates the autonomous mosquito-hunting drone during a live technology presentation.

A Paris startup backed by Y Combinator says its bug-hunting drone completed its first autonomous kill, but the insect it caught was a moth, not a mosquito.

By ECONEWS
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August 6, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Concept image of the Earendil-1 satellite carrying a reflective film for orbital sunlight tests.

A California startup won approval to launch a 59-foot mirror into orbit that beams sunlight to a chosen spot on Earth, helping crews work after dark

By ECONEWS
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August 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Byron Kominek drives a tractor beneath elevated solar panels at Jack's Solar Garden in Longmont, Colorado

A Colorado farm now grows berries and herbs beneath 3,276 solar panels, and four years of data show the shade actually helped crops survive drought

By ECONEWS
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August 6, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Three generations posing beside a restored 1953 Allis-Chalmers WD tractor on a family farm

A 1953 Allis-Chalmers WD tractor returns to the grandson of the farmer who bought it new for $2,200

By ECONEWS
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August 4, 2026 at 7:45 AM
Underwater remains of the Gran Carro Iron Age settlement in Lake Bolsena where archaeologists uncovered the first textile fragment in more than 60 years.

Archaeologists recovered a piece of ancient fabric from Gran Carro, an underwater settlement in Italy, among the remains of a domestic loom submerged for thousands of years

By ECONEWS
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August 3, 2026 at 10:15 AM
The Pascua Lama mining district in Chile's high Andes, surrounded by glaciers and alpine terrain.

A Diaguita community is fighting Barrick’s El Alto drilling permit in Chile’s high Andes, arguing it would reopen ground already covered by a binding closure order

By ECONEWS
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August 3, 2026 at 8:45 AM
A reef cube is loaded onto a vessel before deployment for a native oyster restoration project in northeast England.

Britain is dropping 20 concrete reef cubes and 44 tons of scallop shells into the sea, and the goal is to bring back oysters down more than 95% since the 1800s

By ECONEWS
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August 2, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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