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Close-up macro photograph of an adult common bed bug (Cimex lectularius).

Bedbug DNA reveals that these insects have been tied to humans for far longer than we would like to imagine, a sticky and seriously uncomfortable history

By ECONEWS
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July 23, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Facial reconstruction of Homo floresiensis, the extinct human relative discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores.

The tiny Homo floresiensis may have survived by scavenging food, an unexpected clue that changes the image of these small humans who lived isolated on a remote island

By ECONEWS
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July 23, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Satellite view of the Congo River emptying into the Atlantic Ocean, where one of the world's largest freshwater plumes begins.

Every second, 40,000 cubic meters of fresh water flow from the Congo into the Atlantic, a gigantic current whose final destination still has researchers following clues through the ocean

By ECONEWS
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July 22, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Illustration of lava rising through a mid-ocean ridge as Earth's crust splits to form new oceanic crust beneath the Indian Ocean.

Researchers watched live as Earth cracked open and a massive amount of lava began forming new ocean floor, a geological scene almost no one ever gets to witness

By ECONEWS
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July 22, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Prototype radio telescope dishes developed for Caltech's Deep Synoptic Array, the future DSA-2000 observatory.

California will build 1,650 satellite dishes to create the world’s most sensitive radio telescope, a giant cosmic ear designed to catch weak signals that now get lost in the noise of the universe

By ECONEWS
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July 22, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Ancient ceramic vessel filled with thousands of Roman coins uncovered during excavations in Senon, northeastern France.

Archaeologists in France uncovered a pot filled with tens of thousands of Roman coins from 1,800 years ago, a treasure someone hid and never came back for

By ECONEWS
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July 22, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Hands glow violet and blue under ultraviolet light, illustrating the idea of converting ordinary sunlight into higher-energy UV for new chemical reactions.

Scientists found a way to turn visible sunlight into ultraviolet light, a kind of energy trick that could open unusual doors in chemistry, medicine, and solar technology

By ECONEWS
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July 22, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Aerial view of dozens of red articulated TransMilenio buses parked in rows at a Bogotá depot.

China will send 269 electric buses to a Latin American city and turn it into one of the first with a fully electric public transit fleet, the kind of urban leap that does not happen every day

By ECONEWS
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July 21, 2026 at 6:39 PM
ROV manipulator grasps a degraded VHS cassette 8,700 ft deep on the Argentine seafloor.

An underwater robot dove nearly 13,000 ft. in the Argentine Sea and found fishing nets, bags, and even a VHS tape, as if the ocean floor were keeping a trash pile from another era

By ECONEWS
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July 21, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Aerial view of a large reverse-osmosis desalination complex on the Atlantic coast, with seawater intake and brine outfall channels.

Morocco is getting serious about water security with mega-desalination plants and new rules for cities of millions, a massive bet that shows how far the water crisis can go

By ECONEWS
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July 21, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Diver hovers above young kelp fronds and restored algae in the Zapallar marine refuge on Chile’s central coast.

Artisanal fishers in Chile are using marine refuges to protect black sea urchins and help revive underwater forests, an unexpected move where saving one species helps lift an entire ecosystem

By ECONEWS
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July 21, 2026 at 10:15 AM
An engineering rendering of a carbon-fiber structural battery component designed for aircraft landing gear integration.

Spain created aircraft landing gear capable of storing energy like a battery, a strange idea that could turn the force of every landing into usable electricity

By ECONEWS
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July 21, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Researchers conducting a field test in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, where seawater is pumped onto sea ice to increase its thickness and reflectivity.

The first experiment to thicken Arctic ice with seawater showed promise, but it comes with a huge catch that could turn a climate solution into a serious dilemma

By ECONEWS
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July 20, 2026 at 5:00 PM
A medical professional performing a nasal lavage procedure on a patient to collect samples for microplastic analysis.

Researchers at a Brazilian University are looking for microplastics in the airways of sleep apnea patients, raising an uncomfortable question about how much plastic we may be breathing in while we sleep

By ECONEWS
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July 20, 2026 at 3:00 PM
A Mexican mantled howler monkey in the forest canopy of Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, where researchers detected microplastics in fecal samples.

Plastic is no longer just on beaches and in rivers, scientists found microplastics in howler monkeys in Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, a strange warning that pollution has reached the treetops

By ECONEWS
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July 20, 2026 at 12:30 PM
A digital rendering of the proposed Greensteel Australia electric induction mill at the former BHP site in Mayfield North.

Steelmaking is returning to Newcastle, but this time with renewables and no fossil gas, a historic industrial comeback for a city that never fully let go of its steel past

By ECONEWS
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July 20, 2026 at 10:15 AM
A deep-sea submersible camera captures a corroded radioactive waste barrel on the seafloor, now colonized by sponges and anemones.

About 80 years after some 200,000 radioactive barrels were dumped in the ocean, France is leading a mission to find them, an uncomfortable story that sounds like a forgotten file under the sea

By ECONEWS
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July 20, 2026 at 8:45 AM
A close-up of the concentrated solar-to-hydrogen prototype system using Fresnel lenses to focus sunlight onto high-efficiency four-layer cells.

German scientists have managed to convert up to 31.3% of sunlight directly into hydrogen, a number that puts the race for clean fuel from nothing but sun and chemistry on a whole new level

By ECONEWS
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July 19, 2026 at 6:30 PM
A 3D-printing construction system at work on a building site in regional Australia.

An agricultural town in Australia has jobs, factories, and a desire to grow, but it lacks the most basic necessity: Housing for its employees, and now it wants to solve this problem with 3D-printed homes

By ECONEWS
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July 19, 2026 at 5:00 PM
A diagram showing a home solar nanogrid where panels, batteries, and a heat pump are connected via a direct-current bus.

A new study says linking solar panels, batteries, and heat pumps with direct current could save up to 16.7% on electricity, and the trick is avoiding invisible conversions happening inside the home

By ECONEWS
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July 19, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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