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A slate arrowhead estimated at 5,000 to 6,000 years old with reindeer on the ice patch behind it in Norway

Archaeologists pulled 48 prehistoric arrows from melting ice in Norway’s Jotunheimen mountains this year, and the oldest, tipped with slate, may be up to 6,000 years old as the most ancient ice finally disappears

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October 8, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Antora thermal battery units beside POET's bioprocessing plant in Big Stone City, South Dakota, with steam rising behind them

A Kansas ethanol plant will draw around-the-clock heat from a 5.8 gigawatt-hour thermal battery that stores cheap electricity in solid carbon blocks, and Pratt’s mayor says Antora came early and listened

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October 8, 2026 at 10:12 AM
The Hwangja Hwatong, a corroded bronze hand cannon, photographed against a dark blue background

Soldiers sweeping for land mines in South Korea found the country’s oldest gunpowder weapon

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October 8, 2026 at 8:47 AM
An older man and woman walk side by side along a wooden boardwalk surrounded by greenery

Brisk walking or jogging ranked high for bone density in a review of 124 trials

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October 7, 2026 at 3:04 PM
A lifelike model of a Neanderthal child with long brown hair at the Natural History Museum Vienna

Max Planck scientists read DNA from 27 late Neanderthals in Belgium and France and found no sign of recent Homo sapiens ancestry, even though both lived in Europe at the same time

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October 7, 2026 at 12:28 PM
The Alaska Centennial Nugget, a mass of gold and white quartz weighing 294.1 troy ounces, on a blue background

A miner pushing dirt with a bulldozer near Ruby, Alaska, in 1998 spotted something unusual, and it turned out to be the state’s largest gold nugget, a 294.1-troy-ounce mass that later sold for $750,000

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October 7, 2026 at 8:42 AM
Large vacuum chamber and laser equipment at an experimental station of a high-power laser facility

Physicists fired a laser at the plastic used in drink bottles and recovered nanodiamonds just 3 nanometers wide, after each shot hurled about 10 trillion of them at more than 22,000 mph into a soft gel

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October 6, 2026 at 6:27 PM
A pinkish orange lion's mane jellyfish washed up next to bladder wrack on a pebbly beach

Hundreds of pink lion’s mane jellyfish washed up on a Baltic beach near Germany’s Fehmarn island, and a marine biologist warns that their stinging venom can stay active for some time after they die

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October 6, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Teen inventor Benjamin Davis with his filament recycling machine

A 16-year-old from Massachusetts built a desktop machine that turns failed 3D prints and old plastic bottles into new filament for 90% less than commercial recyclers, and it won him a $75,000 award

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October 6, 2026 at 9:25 AM
Green moss carpets covering the rocky tundra of Ardley Island, Antarctica, with snow patches on the hills

Scientists cut the ultraviolet light reaching moss and lichen on Antarctica’s Ardley Island by 20%, and the Antarctic tundra took up about half as much carbon, an unwelcome twist in the healing of the ozone layer

By ECONEWS
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October 6, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Volunteers in yellow safety vests clearing trash from a wooded creek bank

A California retiree started picking up litter on her pandemic walks, and the volunteer group she built in the San Fernando Valley says it has now hauled away nearly 750,000 pounds of trash

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October 5, 2026 at 5:02 PM
A Burmese python coiled on a tree branch

Researchers have about 90 robotic rabbits out in the Everglades to lure Burmese pythons into view, after live rabbits drew 21 python detections to camera pens against one at an empty pen

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October 5, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Rows of solar panels cleaned by Ecoppia robots

Robots built by the Israeli company Ecoppia roll along desert solar panels every night and brush off the dust without a drop of water, saving about 2.6 billion gallons so far, according to the company

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October 5, 2026 at 11:49 AM
A white mug filled with black coffee on a wooden table

A study of nearly 1 million UK adults found that people who like their tea or coffee very hot had about three times the risk of one type of esophageal cancer, and the researchers’ advice is simply to let it cool

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October 5, 2026 at 10:13 AM
A wall-mounted computer built from hundreds of vacuum tubes arranged in a cross shape next to a tall yellow numeric display

A retired hobbyist built a vacuum tube computer from 460 recycled 1950s tubes, and the 8-bit machine needs about 10 minutes to stabilize and, in his words, heats the entire room

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October 5, 2026 at 6:31 AM
A yellow driverless container vehicle with a banner marking 25 million TEUs parked under green quay cranes at Tuas Port

Singapore built 227 concrete caissons, each about 10 stories tall, for a 9.1-kilometer seawall at Tuas Port, and its operator’s own report shows emissions rose 7% in 2025 as more cargo moved to the electric terminal

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October 4, 2026 at 5:02 PM
A blackened, fire-damaged room with burned furniture

Sleeping with the bedroom door closed is being sold online as the sign of a confident personality, but the strongest evidence is about fire, where closed rooms in tests stayed below 100°F while open ones passed 1,000°F

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October 4, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Floating sea ice floe in the Arctic

Engineers at UC Riverside simulated 2,000 floating ice floes and found that constant collisions between neighbors explain why Arctic sea ice spreads more slowly than the wind alone would push it

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October 4, 2026 at 6:52 AM
Illustration of a Diplodocus in a Jurassic landscape

Paleontologists in Spain identified 14 tail bones from Teruel as Diplodocus, the first scientifically documented find of the famous dinosaur outside North America, though some experts want more proof

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October 3, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Grauer's gorilla mother holding her infant in the forest

Lulingu, a gorilla rescued as an orphan from traffickers, gave birth in the wild in Congo’s Virunga National Park, a milestone for a mountain group of Grauer’s gorillas that had dropped to just eight

By ECONEWS
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October 3, 2026 at 8:49 AM
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