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A US president signs an emergency order at the Resolute Desk as aides stand nearby in the Oval Office.

Trump declares a national emergency to shield $2.5 billion in Venezuelan oil revenue from creditors

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January 29, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Vanguard Cave on Gibraltar’s Mediterranean cliffs, where archaeologists found a chamber sealed for 40,000 years with Neanderthal clues.

Archaeologists open a chamber sealed for 40,000 years, and what they find beneath the sand in Gibraltar changes what we thought we knew about Neanderthals: coastal hunters, glue makers, and Paleolithic artists

By ECONEWS
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January 29, 2026 at 10:15 AM
A US Air Force F-117 Nighthawk stealth aircraft flies over the Nevada desert during a training mission.

The poacher that refuses to die: why the United States will keep the F-117 flying until 2034 and how its training missions could be leaving an invisible climate footprint

By ECONEWS
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January 29, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Teen engineering student inspects a compact modular micro house designed to shelter homeless people and reduce housing emissions.

An 18-year-old designs a micro-house that can be assembled in a day and will move into it for 12 months to test it out: his plan is for it to serve as a real shelter for homeless people and reduce emissions

By ECONEWS
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January 28, 2026 at 3:00 PM
A reconstructed Viking turf house at the L’Anse aux Meadows archaeological site in Newfoundland, Canada.

It wasn’t Columbus, nor was it a myth: a solar storm in the year 993 left its mark on trees… and a thousand years later helped discover the exact year the Vikings arrived in America

By ECONEWS
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January 28, 2026 at 10:15 AM
A sleek new smartphone with a large camera module resting on a surface, highlighting modern mobile design.

The “Nokia” phone with a 230 MP camera and 7,000 mAh battery: what experts warn about

By ECONEWS
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January 27, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Inset image points to faint interstellar object 3I/ATLAS against a star field, shown with a blue glow and an arrow marking its position.

The countdown has begun: in a few days, the truth about 3I/ATLAS will be revealed

By ECONEWS
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January 27, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Physicists in Stuttgart examine optical equipment used to teleport quantum information between photons in a laboratory experiment.

In a laboratory, they manage to teleport quantum information between photons born in different crystals, and the technical detail that makes this possible sounds like the internet of the future

By ECONEWS
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January 27, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Mammoth Cave National Park interior showing a deep vertical shaft and catwalk, where a ranger helped spot ancient shark fossils in the ceiling rock

You enter Mammoth Cave looking for darkness… and encounter sharks: a park ranger discovers fossils of 10–12-foot predators that swam here 325 million years ago on the ceiling of this cave

By ECONEWS
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January 27, 2026 at 6:30 AM
U.S. forecast map showing cold fronts and low pressure systems setting up potential Northeast snowfall while Arctic air holds.

The National Weather Service warns Philadelphia and the Northeast of another potential major snowstorm

By ECONEWS
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January 27, 2026 at 5:19 AM
Satellite view of lake effect snow over Lake Ontario and the northeastern U.S. during a winter storm in January 2026.

National Weather Service issues a lake effect snow warning east of Lake Ontario, with up to 2 feet expected

By ECONEWS
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January 27, 2026 at 5:00 AM
NOAA map showing winter storm warnings across the eastern United States amid extreme cold and snowfall risk

NOAA warns of another winter storm for the eastern US after a historic snowfall left more than 800,000 without power

By ECONEWS
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January 27, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Snow-covered waterfront statues in Maryland as forecasters monitor a coastal system that could bring weekend snow

National Weather Service monitors a possible coastal storm for Maryland this weekend, though models now push it out to sea

By ECONEWS
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January 27, 2026 at 4:14 AM
Police officer checks a driver’s license during a traffic stop, as states move from magnetic stripes to barcodes and digital security.

California’s new driver’s license drops the magnetic stripe: how license designs and their footprint are changing

By ECONEWS
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January 26, 2026 at 5:00 PM
FDA headquarters sign in Maryland, site of Class I recall announcement on grated cheese over Listeria contamination risk

What seemed like a simple condiment is now causing nationwide alarm: the FDA has recalled grated cheese from well-known brands due to the risk of deadly infection

By ECONEWS
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January 26, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Artist’s impression of a baby star’s jet creating a bubble that distorts its own protoplanetary disk, based on ALMA data of WSB 52.

Images capture how a baby star shoots a jet at full speed 440 light-years away and the “rebound” ends up hitting its own disk where planets are born

By ECONEWS
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January 26, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Ship rat on a mossy log in New Zealand forest habitat, one of the invasive predators targeted by Predator Free 2050.

New Zealand wants to do what almost no one else dares to do: eradicate rats, mustelids, possums, and now feral cats from the ENTIRE country by 2050

By ECONEWS
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January 26, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Geologists examine drilling equipment at the Wangu gold field in Hunan after locating a massive deep underground gold deposit.

China finds a gold deposit worth about $85.9 billion 2,000 meters under Hunan’s Wangu gold field

By ECONEWS
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January 26, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Four gravitationally lensed images of quasar RX J1131 reveal the glowing corona surrounding a supermassive black hole.

Four images of the same quasar reveal the “aura” of a black hole 6 billion light-years away, and its size surprises even astronomers

By ECONEWS
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January 26, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Capybara resting among yacare caimans on a Brazilian riverbank, showing an unusual calm between predator and prey.

The strangest “truce.” A capybara was filmed sleeping next to a massive caiman, and the explanation is not friendship. It is pure survival

By ECONEWS
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January 25, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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