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A Maya pyramid and plaza at an ancient city site in Guatemala, linked to new research on why some wet regions were abandoned.

It rained, crops kept growing, and yet the Maya still left. The unexpected twist that calls the classic explanation of their collapse into question

By ECONEWS
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February 8, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Inset highlights “Cosmic Grapes,” an early lensed galaxy whose light breaks into many compact, star-forming clumps.

A galaxy looked calm in the first images, but when it was brought into focus it turned out to be a cluster of at least 15 stellar bursts, like cosmic grapes

By ECONEWS
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February 8, 2026 at 8:45 AM
New York City skyline with Central Park in autumn, as the city announces a major housing settlement forcing repairs across boroughs

The Mamdani administration secures a landmark multimillion-dollar settlement that forces a large property owner to repair thousands of structural problems and ends the hellish conditions endured by hundreds of families in Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan in 2026

By ECONEWS
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February 8, 2026 at 6:30 AM
ALMA image of a protoplanetary disk showing rings and gaps shaped by forming baby planets

New images capture “footprints” of baby planets around newborn stars, which could be forming in just hundreds of thousands of years

By ECONEWS
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February 7, 2026 at 12:30 PM
A cargo ship escorted by tugboats moves through a canal channel with a bridge in the background.

The Panama Canal is forgotten: a new interoceanic corridor opens that will change global trade

By ECONEWS
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February 7, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Compact early universe galaxy forming stars rapidly just 600 million years after the Big Bang

Just 600 million years after the Big Bang, a compact galaxy appears that produces stars as if there were no tomorrow

By ECONEWS
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February 7, 2026 at 8:45 AM
The SS United States ocean liner sits in port as tugboats guide it during a tow, beginning its journey to become an artificial reef.

The legendary SS United States is moving again after decades at a standstill, and its destination is no longer the Atlantic but becoming the world’s largest artificial reef

By ECONEWS
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February 6, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Screenshot of the IRS website showing the IRS logo and a page headline about doing more with an IRS account.

There are no new federal stimulus checks in February 2026: what the IRS and official sources actually say

By ECONEWS
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February 6, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Aerial view of a large waste-to-energy incineration plant in China surrounded by green hills and nearby facilities.

China has built more than 1,000 waste incineration plants and now lacks enough waste to feed them, so in 2026 it will begin excavating landfills as if they were fuel mines

By ECONEWS
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February 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
ALMA telescope image of fluffy molecular clouds in the Small Magellanic Cloud where new stars are forming

ALMA detects “cotton” clouds in the Small Magellanic Cloud and provides unexpected clues about how the first stars in the universe were born

By ECONEWS
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February 6, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Japan's H3 rocket lifts off from Tanegashima Space Center, flames and smoke rising over the Pacific.

JAXA admits that the H3 failed due to damage to the satellite section and fuel tube, and the blow comes at a key moment

By ECONEWS
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February 6, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Hillside landscape with an inset satellite-style heat map highlighting a methane plume, illustrating research on temporary CO2 removals.

Methane is out of control… but this strategy involving temporary CO2 capture could slow down its climate impact

By ECONEWS
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February 6, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Researchers stand on a rocky slope in northeast Greenland after a fossil field expedition on Ymer Island near Mount Celsius.

A Pole reveals what Greenland has to offer. “Our legs literally buckled with excitement”

By ECONEWS
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February 5, 2026 at 3:00 PM
A cooking pot sits over an open fire fueled by plastic bottles and trash, showing how waste is burned for heat in poor areas.

Thousands of families in poor countries cook with plastic… and almost no one talks about the risks this poses

By ECONEWS
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February 5, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Vast solar panel arrays stretch across flat land with wind turbines in the distance, symbolizing India’s rapid clean power buildout.

A new report says India is electrifying faster than China at the same level of development and with fewer fossil fuels per person

By ECONEWS
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February 5, 2026 at 8:45 AM
The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier sails at sea with fighter jets on deck during an extended deployment.

More than 200 days at sea since June 2025, and the admiral admits that the USS Gerald R. Ford is under more pressure than ever before

By ECONEWS
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February 4, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Finke (Larapinta) River in central Australia, an ancient desert river system carving through red sands near the MacDonnell Ranges

Australia has a river older than the dinosaurs: the Finke (Larapinta) has been flowing for between 300 and 400 million years and cuts through the MacDonnell Ranges as if the terrain did not exist

By ECONEWS
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February 4, 2026 at 3:37 PM
A hillside vineyard in Virginia with rows of grapevines and winery buildings, representing small farm wineries facing new rules.

A recently-passed law in Virginia could bankrupt small artisanal wineries that have been growing grapes and making unique wines in mountainous terrain for decades

By ECONEWS
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February 4, 2026 at 3:00 PM
IRS website shown as tax deadline penalties of up to 680 dollars begin after missed January filing cutoff

IRS penalties of up to $680 per form for employers who missed the January 31 W-2 and 1099 deadline

By ECONEWS
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February 4, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Road workers and an excavator on a hillside, with an inset showing a small gold bracteate medallion found in Norway.

A metal detectorist heard a beep in a plowed field and walked up a hillside in ancient Norway and found seven gold medallions buried and abandoned in the 6th century

By ECONEWS
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February 4, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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