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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

By ECONEWS
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June 29, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Gloved hands holding a semiconductor wafer linked to research on safer plasma processing for future ultrathin chips.

A chip material only three atoms thick was hit with plasma, and a tiny chemical trick changed what happened next

By ECONEWS
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June 29, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Illustration of a glowing ultrathin superconducting layer flowing over a sculpted nanoscale surface.

It all began with a material thousands of times thinner than a human hair; now scientists believe they have found an unexpected way to manufacture much more efficient superconductors

By ECONEWS
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June 29, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Satellite image of Tropical Storm Arthur swirling over the Gulf Coast as heavy rain bands spread across the Southeast.

The season’s first named storm might morph out of Gulf Coast rainclouds—Mother Nature’s reminder she writes the calendar

By ECONEWS
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June 28, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Malawian woman farmer standing in her homestead with chickens and small-scale farm structures

A Malawian farmer’s tiny plot became a blueprint for climate-smart ag without billionaire budgets

By ECONEWS
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June 28, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Open-pit view of the Panguna mine in Bougainville, where communities are demanding justice for decades of pollution

Bougainville locals want justice for a toxic mine scar, proving “ghost” pollution never sleeps

By ECONEWS
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June 28, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Mother and child overlook mining pollution in Cerro de Pasco, Peru

Peru’s Cerro de Pasco villagers haul a mining giant into court, demanding someone clean up a century-old mess

By ECONEWS
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June 28, 2026 at 3:00 PM
A diver illegally harvesting protected purple sea urchins from the rocky seabed within the Gaiola Underwater Park marine reserve.

Farewell to sea urchins: Italy sounds the alarm after discovering nighttime poaching that is depleting the Mediterranean seabed

By ECONEWS
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June 28, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Williams' electric blue day gecko perched on a pandanus plant in Tanzania's Kimboza Forest Reserve, where conservation efforts are helping the endangered species recover.

A tiny blue gecko staged an epic comeback, reminding conservationists size doesn’t dictate surprise factor

By ECONEWS
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June 28, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Blue-fronted Lorikeet perched in the cloud forest of Mount Kapalatmada on Buru Island, where researchers confirmed the rare parrot's rediscovery.

A “lost” parrot was rediscovered on a remote Indonesian peak, proving extinction rumors can be greatly exaggerated

By ECONEWS
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June 28, 2026 at 4:30 AM
Loggerhead turtle nesting on a Boa Vista beach as a night patrol team monitors the sand with red light

Loggerhead turtles on Cabo Verde just pulled off an 80-fold nesting boom, turning the beach into a reptile rave

By ECONEWS
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June 27, 2026 at 6:30 PM
X-ray view of the Perseus galaxy cluster core showing hot gas around its central galaxy

XRISM is reading the Perseus cluster’s elemental gossip, one X-ray whisper at a time

By ECONEWS
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June 27, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Astronaut working on NASA’s Cold Atom Lab hardware inside the International Space Station

The Space Station’s quantum lab just went colder, edging scientists closer to physics so weird it makes gravity blush

By ECONEWS
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June 27, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Illustration of Sagittarius A* at the center of the Milky Way, where astronomers believe the IRS 13 star cluster may have carved a mini-cavity in surrounding gas.

Forget about epic explosions: just 300 years ago, a swarm of hyper-powerful stars would have left a perfect crater next to the central black hole… and today, astronomers see it as a kind of space graffiti that’s still smoldering

By ECONEWS
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June 27, 2026 at 10:15 AM
NASA’s Cold Atom Lab aboard the International Space Station, where ultracold atoms are used to study quantum physics in microgravity.

The microwave-sized mini-refrigerator floating 400 km above Earth has just put atoms into “ghost mode” at –273 °C, and NASA scientists believe this experiment could equip future rockets with a “galactic GPS” that not even errors in solar signals could throw off course

By ECONEWS
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June 27, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Artist’s concept of the giant exoplanet HD 80606 b heating up as it swings close to its star

The Webb telescope captures a “roasting” exoplanet: 4,900°F, clouds of glass, and an atmosphere of vaporized metal on a world that is boiling just a hair’s breadth from its star

By ECONEWS
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June 27, 2026 at 4:30 AM
X-ray image of the jet erupting from the supermassive black hole at the center of Messier 87

NASA’s X-ray eye caught a jet shooting from the first black hole we ever photographed—apparently fame hasn’t tamed the beast

By ECONEWS
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June 26, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Dense view of Terzan 5 showing tightly packed stars in the Milky Way bulge

NASA’s Webb and Hubble teamed up on Terzan 5, and the detail that matters is that they proved it isn’t a globular star cluster at all but a surviving relic from the Milky Way’s earliest formation

By ECONEWS
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June 26, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Gravitational lens arcs reveal distant galaxy linked to high-energy neutrino detection

The fastest subatomic messenger in the universe lands on the ice of Antarctica and points toward an “invisible” galaxy 11,000 million light-years away

By ECONEWS
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June 26, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Bald eagle walking on roadside instead of flying showing unusual behavior after injury

Some workers were laying asphalt right in the middle of the road in Logan Township when, suddenly, they saw the national bald eagle fly by; it had a few burns, but what really impressed them was what happened next

By ECONEWS
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June 26, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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