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Researcher standing in a shallow Mediterranean temporary pond in São Marcos da Ataboeira, Castro Verde, Portugal after heavy rain

They look like puddles, but Portugal’s temporary ponds revive tadpole shrimp with a 100-million-year lineage every time it rains

By ECONEWS
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February 26, 2026 at 7:28 AM
Deep sea image of thousands of pearl octopuses gathered at a hydrothermal nursery site near Davidson Seamount.

At a depth of 3.2 km and next to a volcano, they have recorded the largest octopus nursery on the planet, the size of 233 soccer fields and full of incubating mothers

By ECONEWS
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February 26, 2026 at 5:38 AM
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant sarcophagus structure after power outage affecting cooling systems

Chernobyl temporarily loses power after attacks on Ukraine’s grid; the IAEA says the risk is very low

By ECONEWS
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February 26, 2026 at 3:56 AM
Ancient Aboriginal rock art showing a large seafaring vessel with human figures in northern Australia

A study of 2,400 genomes suggests the first humans reached Australia about 60,000 years ago

By ECONEWS
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February 25, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Shine 2.0 portable wind turbine charging devices in light wind outdoors

A bottle-sized “windmill” that promises to save your cell phone in the middle of nowhere, Shine 2.0 says it charges with just 8 mph of wind and weighs 3 pounds

By ECONEWS
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February 25, 2026 at 12:59 PM
WindRunner ultra-large cargo aircraft designed to transport 105-meter wind turbine blades, targeting first flight by 2029.

Radia’s WindRunner, the giant cargo plane designed to carry 105-meter wind turbine blades, aims to fly by 2029

By ECONEWS
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February 25, 2026 at 9:27 AM
Construction work at Rota Naval Base as Spain prepares facilities for the new F-110 frigates.

“They’re not ships, they’re floating brains”: why the Spanish Navy is redesigning an entire naval base so that the F-110s, valued at more than 4.3 billion, can operate without limits from 2026 onwards

By ECONEWS
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February 25, 2026 at 7:33 AM
Toyota vehicle featured in the 2026 Consumer Reports reliability ranking where the brand scored highest overall.

Toyota reigns supreme again in 2026 with a reliability score of 66, but the big surprise is who sneaks into the top five and breaks Japanese dominance

By ECONEWS
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February 24, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Excavation site in Riyadh where Saudi Arabia halted construction of the Mukaab mega cube project in New Murabba.

Saudi Arabia suspends the Mukaab, the 400-meter cube planned for Riyadh’s New Murabba district

By ECONEWS
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February 24, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Highly contaminated water inside the torus room at Fukushima Daiichi where active marine bacteria were detected.

Fifteen years after the 2011 disaster, Fukushima continues to deliver strange surprises. Japan has found active bacteria in highly radioactive water, and what is most disturbing is that they appear “normal,” as if nothing had happened

By ECONEWS
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February 24, 2026 at 8:38 AM
566-year-old coolabah “matriarch” tree in the Gwydir Wetlands, NSW, studied for five centuries of climate and flood history

A 566-year-old “matriarch” tree still stands in the Gwydir wetlands, and scientists say its trunk contains a climate record spanning five centuries

By ECONEWS
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February 24, 2026 at 6:38 AM
Seychelles sea coconut (coco de mer) seed on a beach, the world’s largest seed at up to 66 pounds and nearly 20 inches wide

Weighing up to 66 pounds and measuring nearly 20 inches, the Seychelles sea coconut is the largest seed on the planet

By ECONEWS
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February 23, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Naturally mummified cheetah preserved inside a dry cave in northern Saudi Arabia

The discovery of 4,000-year-old mummified cheetahs in Saudi Arabia could lead to the recovery of a lost ecosystem

By ECONEWS
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February 23, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Scientist releases biological control weevils onto invasive floating pennywort in a UK river

The war against invasive plants that devour rivers and fields enters creative mode: British scientists are releasing living allies that no one would have imagined in a modern scientific plan

By ECONEWS
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February 23, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Close-up of a wild boar linked to Fukushima’s post-disaster genetic experiment in abandoned farmlands

Fifteen years after the March 11, 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima, scientists discover that wild boars were the subject of an unexpected genetic experiment

By ECONEWS
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February 23, 2026 at 12:18 PM
Russian Shahed loitering munition equipped with a Starlink satellite terminal used for live video guidance in Ukraine.

Russian kamikaze drones fly close to the ground and transmit live video thanks to Starlink, a combination that renders traditional electronic warfare obsolete

By ECONEWS
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February 22, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Chestnut mining bee Andrena rehni on an American chestnut flower in a Syracuse research orchard

It looked like a normal bee in an orchard, but after a few seconds, a scientist realized she was seeing something that almost no one had ever seen in that area before

By ECONEWS
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February 22, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Bowl of plain yogurt topped with fruit and granola on a breakfast table

Thousands of people do it without thinking twice, but eating yogurt every day has real effects on health, and not all of them are positive, according to experts

By ECONEWS
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February 22, 2026 at 10:15 AM
A high-speed passenger train used by Brazil’s ANTT to illustrate the proposed Rio to São Paulo high-speed rail project.

Brazil plans a high-speed train between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo that would make the trip in 1 hour 45 minutes

By ECONEWS
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February 22, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Starlet sea anemone Nematostella vectensis used in evolutionary biology research

A brainless creature from the bottom of the sea could hold the molecular trick that helped build the human body between 600 and 700 million years ago

By ECONEWS
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February 21, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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