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Ancient Pueblo bow-and-arrow artifacts showing early hunting technology in the North American Southwest.

Researchers have analyzed 136 weapons using carbon-14 dating and have been able to pinpoint exactly when the bow-and-arrow era began in North America

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April 27, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Hand holding rice husks after harvest

They heated them to 900°C (1,652°F) for 8 hours, and something unexpected happened: the rice husks and palm fronds barely formed the dreaded “rocks” that clog boilers… and Colombia might have a more reliable rural fuel than we thought

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April 27, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Underwater view of ocean currents and suspended particles, representing changing sea conditions linked to El Niño patterns

El Niño 2026 forecast: NOAA gives a 61% chance it emerges between May and July

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April 27, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Underwater view of tethered industrial devices, representing advanced engineering systems similar to experimental energy infrastructure

The United States has never built anything like this before: now a startup wants to bury a small nuclear reactor 6,000 feet underground, with a target date of July 2026

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April 26, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Lightning flashes over trees during a thunderstorm, illustrating research on ultraviolet corona discharges in forest canopies

What they observed over the course of 90 minutes in the branches of a tree in the midst of a storm seems straight out of a science-fiction novel: 41 ultraviolet flashes invisible to the human eye and a major unanswered mystery

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April 26, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Astronaut view of the Richat Structure, or Eye of the Sahara, showing concentric rings in the Mauritanian desert

NASA observes the Sahara from the International Space Station and detects a gigantic eye nearly 50 kilometers wide, whose origin is not as cosmic as it seems

By ECONEWS
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April 26, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Massive stone block from the Lighthouse of Alexandria being lifted from the sea during the PHAROS archaeology project

Twenty-two giant blocks from the legendary Lighthouse of Alexandria have been recovered from the seabed, and this discovery is rewriting the history of one of the world’s most famous wonders

By ECONEWS
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April 26, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Kemp’s ridley sea turtles moving across the sand on Padre Island National Seashore.

No one understood what that strange green creature was that washed up on a Texas beach on March 7, until they discovered it was one of the rarest turtles in the world

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April 26, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Artist’s illustration of two young planets colliding and producing a large cloud of dust around a distant star

Astronomers have detected, for the first time and in real time, a violent collision between two young planets located 11,000 light-years away

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April 26, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Fiddler crabs in Colombian mangroves where researchers found high microplastic accumulation

A study published on December 17, 2025, on mangroves in the Colombian Caribbean reveals that small crabs measuring just 1.2 inches can accumulate up to 13 times more microplastics than the mud and convert some of them into nanoplastics

By ECONEWS
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April 26, 2026 at 6:18 AM
Galápagos giant tortoise on grassy volcanic terrain in the Galápagos Islands

Between 1997 and 2006, the Galápagos Islands launched an operation that was as extreme as it was surprising to save their giant tortoises: they removed more than 140,000 invasive goats using helicopters, GPS, and a strategy that was as unusual as it was controversial

By ECONEWS
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April 26, 2026 at 5:05 AM
Hydrokinetic turbines installed in the Rhine River generating electricity from flowing water without a dam

Germany is already testing a power plant on the Rhine equipped with 124 invisible turbines that continues to operate even after sunset and when the wind dies down

By ECONEWS
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April 25, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Basket filled with freshly caught blue crabs showing their blue claws and shells

Cannibalism is decimating blue crab larvae, but shallow waters still offer them a chance

By ECONEWS
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April 25, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Artist’s illustration of a magma ocean exoplanet with a glowing molten surface and thick sulfur-rich atmosphere

Scientists reveal a new class of hellish planets with a permanent ocean of magma

By ECONEWS
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April 25, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Fossil of the oldest known docodontan from Greenland, linked to Nujalikodon cassiopeiae and early mammal evolution

Scientists have identified a tiny creature, just 0.06 inches long and 200 million years old, hiding in an ancient burrow in Greenland; it lived at a time when dinosaurs already ruled the Earth

By ECONEWS
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April 25, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Solar-powered artificial leaf device converts CO2 into formate fuel beside solar panels

An “artificial leaf” described in a study published on November 19, 2025, was able to convert CO2 into formate for more than 24 hours and could open up an amazing new way to produce chemicals without relying so heavily on oil

By ECONEWS
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April 25, 2026 at 11:19 AM
Floodwater surrounds homes in China as rising river levels and coastal flood risks threaten low-lying communities.

Sea levels are rising at a rate not seen in 4,000 years, and China’s major coastal cities are already on the front lines

By ECONEWS
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April 25, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Chimpanzee examining a crystal object, reflecting observed attraction to geometric and transparent materials

What these chimpanzees did with some pieces of glass suggests a story that began millions of years ago

By ECONEWS
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April 25, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Ocean surface and atmospheric conditions influencing global drought patterns and climate variability

For more than a century, the ocean has prevented a severe global drought, but almost no one has described it that way

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April 24, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Concept rendering of the U.S. Air Force F-47 sixth-generation fighter under development as part of the NGAD program

The United States is accelerating the development of the F-47: the sixth-generation fighter is on track to take flight in less than two years, and its 2028 debut is already causing concern around the world

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April 24, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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