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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

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October 3, 2026 at 8:49 AM
Father hugging his young daughter outdoors

A Rutgers study of nearly 1,700 people found fathers of daughters felt more committed to their child’s mother than fathers of sons, and in couples tracked from pregnancy the gap began after birth

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October 2, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Elderly man walking through a green orchard

A Finnish study that followed 2,690 men for decades found 42% of those with good cardiovascular health in their early 40s lived to 90, versus 7% of those with the poorest, and they were less frail

By ECONEWS
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October 2, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Grayscale mosaic of a long wrinkle ridge crossing cratered volcanic plains on Mercury

Scientists found fewer wrinkles on Mercury’s roughest ground, and now put its lost radius at 7.2 miles

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October 2, 2026 at 11:37 AM
Excavated remains of the Ursoaia pottery kiln in Romania

Archaeologists in Romania excavated a 6,000-year-old pottery kiln with an 81-square-foot floor and replaceable clay slabs, the largest of its kind, suggesting potters worked beyond household needs

By ECONEWS
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October 2, 2026 at 10:19 AM
The Pont du Gard Roman aqueduct bridge over the Gardon River

Mineral layers in the Roman aqueduct that crosses the Pont du Gard show it stopped supplying Nîmes around AD 270, during the Plague of Cyprian, while water kept flowing to farms upstream for 140 years

By ECONEWS
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October 2, 2026 at 6:29 AM
Researcher examining ray barb fragments with a magnifying glass

Archaeologists working along Mexico’s Maya Train found ray barb fragments and a catfish spine in burials near the Usumacinta River and are studying whether the Maya used them to draw their own blood

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October 1, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Rock-cut tunnel of the pre-Roman aqueduct at Monteleone Sabino

Cavers in Italy’s Rieti province explored about 328 feet of a pre-Roman aqueduct carved through a hillside, and archaeologists believe small farming villages built it to drain their land

By ECONEWS
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October 1, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Molehills in a grassy field

Archaeologists in Belgium sifted 814 molehills near Damme and recovered 2,810 fragments that revealed a medieval gatehouse under a nature reserve, with the richest clues where moles dug least

By ECONEWS
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October 1, 2026 at 8:48 AM
The Devil's Arrows standing stones in a field near Boroughbridge

Researchers traced Yorkshire’s prehistoric Devil’s Arrows to Brimham Rocks, 11 miles away, showing builders hauled 25-ton stones past closer sources, and a medieval cross nearby came from a missing one

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September 30, 2026 at 6:34 PM
The new sea spider Callipallene pilosuspedes

Divers off British Columbia found two sea spider species new to science, the first described in the Salish Sea in almost a century, and one has red eyes and legs so spiny its name means hairy feet

By ECONEWS
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September 30, 2026 at 3:02 PM
University students sitting and studying in a library

A study that tracked 1,967 people in Singapore with smart rings found university students averaging 20 moved 100 minutes less per day than adults in their 70s and spent over 10.5 hours a day sitting

By ECONEWS
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September 30, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Angler holding a large wels catfish in a boat

An angler on Poland’s Vistula River pulled in a wels catfish 7 feet 8 inches long and about 198 pounds on her birthday trip, and after a quick photo she let Europe’s largest freshwater predator go

By ECONEWS
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September 30, 2026 at 7:34 AM
Woman reading a book in an armchair

According to psychology, reading for pleasure may do more for your brain than you think, as a Cambridge review links it to better memory in 10,243 children and less cognitive decline later in life

By ECONEWS
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September 30, 2026 at 6:34 AM
Squid swimming in the ocean

Squid numbers have climbed for decades and many blamed warming seas, but a Danish model found warmer water actually shrinks squid populations and the real driver is the overfishing of their predators

By ECONEWS
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September 30, 2026 at 6:18 AM
Painted underworld figure on a wall of the Etruscan Tomb of the Blue Demons in Tarquinia, Italy

Echoes lasted more than seven seconds inside a 2,400-year-old Etruscan tomb in Tarquinia, and researchers think its builders designed it to unsettle mourners

By ECONEWS
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September 29, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Prairie rattlesnakes and newborns seen on a livestream camera

Livestream cameras in California, Colorado and Pennsylvania caught rattlesnakes giving birth for the first time, with over 60 newborns in Colorado, and the footage shows mothers staying with their pups

By ECONEWS
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September 29, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Scientists beside the submersible Alvin aboard a research ship

Scientists took the submersible Alvin 3 miles down to the world’s deepest known hydrothermal vents in the Caribbean to learn how shrimp find them in darkness, and they suspect an odd eye on their backs

By ECONEWS
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September 29, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Crown-of-thorns starfish on a coral reef

The crown-of-thorns starfish is blamed for ravaging the Great Barrier Reef, but a University of Sydney study found coral survived almost 75% of its bites on a protected reef and it may boost diversity

By ECONEWS
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September 29, 2026 at 9:14 AM
Visitors looking at finds from the Palmhout wreck in a museum

A corked jug from the 17th-century Palmhout wreck near Texel, in the Netherlands, showed something metallic on X-rays, but archaeologists opened it and found bird feathers, and no one knows why

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September 29, 2026 at 8:46 AM
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