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Shipwreck on the seafloor off Queensland surrounded by fish

Scientists mapping a shipwreck off Queensland found 300 holes up to 26 feet wide spread 328 feet around it and suspect fish dug them, a pattern that once helped CSIRO find a ship lost for 74 years

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September 28, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Asian elephant reaching into a transparent box for fruit

Scientists hid fruit in a box and taught 16 Asian elephants in Thailand to reach around it, then moved the opening and found they could drop a habit that no longer worked, though older ones took longer

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September 28, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Tsushima leopard cat standing on the ground

On Japan’s Tsushima Island, researchers found leopard cats with short tails and feared domestic cats had crept into their family tree, but genome tests of 16 animals found no trace of that ancestry

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September 28, 2026 at 10:17 AM
Bottlenose dolphin mother and calf surfacing together in the Gulf of Mexico

Scientists filmed a bottlenose dolphin calf handling a seashell just three minutes after its mother used the same shell while hunting, offering a rare clue that this unusual fishing technique may be passed between generations, although researchers say the brief encounter does not yet prove the calf learned it from its mother

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September 28, 2026 at 6:32 AM
Cattle grazing in a green field beside rows of solar panels

A Tennessee solar farm is testing cattle beneath moving panels, using a special “grazing mode” to create safer clearance for cows and calves while still generating enough electricity for roughly 500 homes, a commercial test of whether farming and solar power can truly share the same land

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September 27, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Researcher holding a large stick insect

An Australian stick insect people had photographed for years only now received its own scientific name, and researchers also found a rainforest species whose eggs carry rings never seen before

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September 27, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Black and white photo of Marie Curie working in her Paris laboratory in 1912

More than 120 years after Marie Curie’s experiments, some of her laboratory notebooks remain radioactively contaminated, but France’s national library says visitors behind glass receive essentially no additional radiation while the originals require strict handling controls because radium-226 has a half-life of about 1,600 years

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September 27, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Large wind turbine blades lying on the ground showing their round root ends

Wind turbine blades are notoriously difficult to recycle, but Carbon Rivers demonstrated recovered glass fiber with 99.9% purity that could return to manufacturing, while recent cleanup concerns in Tennessee show that successful recycling depends on safely processing and actually selling the recovered material, not simply shredding old blades

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September 27, 2026 at 8:46 AM
Green algal bloom along the shore of Lake Erie near Kelleys Island

Scientists found fish crowding along the edges of Lake Erie’s oxygen-starved “dead zones,” creating unusually large catches that can make populations look healthier than they really are and potentially distort estimates used to prevent overfishing

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September 26, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Swirling cloud bands of Jupiter photographed by NASA’s Juno spacecraft

Carl Sagan imagined an ecosystem floating in Jupiter’s clouds with microscopic “sinkers,” kilometer-scale balloon-like “floaters” and roaming “hunters,” but nearly 50 years later scientists have found only that some atmospheric layers could meet limited conditions for life, not evidence that anything actually lives there

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September 26, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Alpine Muttsee reservoir surrounded by rocky mountains in summer

Nearly 5,000 solar panels were installed on a Swiss dam 8,200 feet above sea level, and despite deep snow and freezing temperatures the Alpine plant produced 3.8 times more winter electricity per unit of capacity than a lowland installation during its first measured year

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September 26, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Row of wooden beehives standing in a grassy apiary

A truck carrying 70,000 pounds of beehives overturned in Washington and released an estimated 14 million bees, but instead of destroying the colonies responders gave them up to 48 hours to regroup around their queens, inspiring a new 10-page emergency plan for future bee spills

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September 26, 2026 at 6:36 AM
First newspaper printing of the Declaration of Independence from July 1776

America’s Declaration of Independence was translated into German just days after July 4, 1776, but only two copies of that first broadside edition are known to survive, and Berlin can expose its 250-year-old sheet to just 50 lux for three months before returning it to darkness for at least three years

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September 25, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Entrance to the Escoural cave archaeological site in Portugal

Scientists sampled 120 surfaces inside caves in Portugal and Spain and recovered ancient human DNA from just five, including a red-pigment crust at Escoural, revealing that even apparently blank cave walls can preserve genetic traces of people who passed through thousands of years ago

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September 25, 2026 at 2:58 PM
SpaceX Starship rocket standing on its launch mount before a test flight

SpaceX recovered Ship 40 after its 171-foot Starship upper stage survived reentry, splashed down in the Indian Ocean and spent about 24 days at sea, giving engineers the first largely intact spacecraft of its kind to inspect for clues hidden in its battered heat shield

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September 25, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Full-length photographic negative of the Shroud of Turin

Scientists recovered DNA from humans, crops, domestic animals, microbes and even Mediterranean red coral from 1978 samples of the Shroud of Turin, but nearly 50 years later the genetic “guest book” still cannot reveal when the cloth was made or prove its authenticity

By ECONEWS
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September 24, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Close-up of a gold pagoda coin from southern India showing a worn raised design

Workers digging near a student hostel in a Karnataka village opened an earthen pot filled with 14 gold coins stamped with elephants, and what matters most is not the million rupees but the soil they came out of

By ECONEWS
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September 24, 2026 at 1:25 PM
Young raccoon peeking out from between lavender plants

A baby raccoon found limping inside a Virginia storm drain turned out to have three broken legs, but after being rescued and treated her bones began “fusing beautifully” and veterinarians were able to remove the casts while she continued recovering

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September 24, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Circular icefish nests on the muddy seabed of the Weddell Sea, with adult fish guarding their eggs

A camera towed over the Weddell Sea floor kept finding the same circular nest again and again, until researchers realized they had stumbled onto 60 million icefish nests spread across 93 square miles of Antarctic seabed

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September 24, 2026 at 8:12 AM
Crevassed ice and snow-covered terrain in East Antarctica photographed from an aircraft

Antarctica gained 695 billion tons of ice in less than two years, the largest increase in the satellite record, and the cause was warm tropical water thousands of miles away that changes nothing about where the continent is heading

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September 24, 2026 at 6:48 AM
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