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Wide aerial view of a vast solar farm with thousands of blue panels arranged in rows across open grassland under a bright sky.

In the middle of the Tibetan desert, China’s largest solar park is doing something unexpected that goes far beyond producing electricity

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January 15, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Solar farm at sunset with a cutout of a surprised woman and an inset showing Kyosemi’s Sphelar spherical solar cell technology.

Sphelar, Japan’s spherical solar cells that challenge the flat panel design used since 1883

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January 14, 2026 at 6:30 PM
North Korean leader stands inside an indoor shipyard beside a large submarine hull shown in newly released state media photos.

North Korea shows what it claims to be its nuclear submarine for the first time, and the images raise more questions than answers

By ECONEWS
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January 14, 2026 at 5:00 PM
ALMA and VLA composite image of protostar SVS 13’s jet in NGC 1333, highlighting multiple ring-shaped shells that trace past outbursts.

A cosmic jet looked like just a bright trail, but ALMA has discovered that it is actually a secret archive of a star’s violent childhood

By ECONEWS
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January 14, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Artist illustration of Cambrian seafloor life, including trilobites and other marine animals, before an ancient ocean die-off.

530 million years ago, the oceans filled with an invisible, lethal gas, and nearly half of all marine life disappeared with no escape

By ECONEWS
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January 14, 2026 at 6:30 AM
German officials meet under NATO and German flags as MQ-9B SeaGuardian drones and maritime patrol aircraft fly over warships at sea.

Germany buys eight US-made MQ-9B SeaGuardian maritime drones for $1.5 billion

By ECONEWS
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January 14, 2026 at 5:35 AM
Artist rendering of Japan’s H3 rocket in flight above Earth, with the upper stage firing as it climbs toward orbit.

Japan looked to the skies once again with its H3 rocket until the engine malfunctioned and minutes later the plan began to unravel

By ECONEWS
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January 13, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Static test firing of the P160C solid rocket motor at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, sending a huge smoke plume skyward.

Europe has just fired up a more powerful engine in French Guiana, and the change could alter who calls the shots in space launches

By ECONEWS
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January 13, 2026 at 12:30 PM
People stand amid collapsed buildings in Haiti, with an InSAR satellite deformation map overlay showing post-quake ground movement and the epicenter

After the major earthquake in Haiti, something continued to move underground for weeks, and scientists have just discovered what it was

By ECONEWS
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January 13, 2026 at 8:45 AM
MeerKAT radio telescope dishes in South Africa under a star-filled sky, used to detect hydrogen in distant galaxies

They pointed a radio telescope for less than three hours and, without even looking for them, ended up finding 49 new galaxies hidden in the data

By ECONEWS
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January 13, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Illustration of ESA ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover drilling into Mars while a NASA rocket launches in the background.

The European mission aiming to find life on Mars now has a date and a key partner: NASA will provide a rocket and nuclear “heaters,” with launch planned for 2028 and landing in 2030

By ECONEWS
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January 12, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Artist’s impression of JAXA’s Akatsuki spacecraft orbiting Venus with the Sun in the background

Japan bids farewell to Akatsuki, the probe that spent eight years monitoring Venus and changed what we knew about its hellish atmosphere

By ECONEWS
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January 12, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Where today there is only sand and wind, archaeologists have found evidence of a landscape filled with water, food, and human settlements

Where today there is only sand and wind, archaeologists have found evidence of a landscape filled with water, food, and human settlements

By ECONEWS
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January 11, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Scientists managed to trace the tree of life back to a single common ancestor that lived more than two billion years ago

Scientists managed to trace the tree of life back to a single common ancestor that lived more than two billion years ago

By ECONEWS
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January 11, 2026 at 7:57 AM
A German physicist says a battery electric car can travel up to six times farther than a car running on e-fuels with the same electricity

A German physicist says a battery electric car can travel up to six times farther than a car running on e-fuels with the same electricity

By ECONEWS
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January 10, 2026 at 3:47 PM
A 100-million-year-old fossil pearl found in outback Queensland is rewriting a small piece of Australia’s ancient sea story

A 100-million-year-old fossil pearl found in outback Queensland is rewriting a small piece of Australia’s ancient sea story

By ECONEWS
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January 10, 2026 at 12:55 PM
The man-sized gold nugget that made two miners rich in 1869

The man-sized gold nugget that made two miners rich in 1869

By ECONEWS
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January 10, 2026 at 11:12 AM
A plumber just months away from retirement lifted a section of floor in Vienna and uncovered a rusty box containing 30 kilograms of gold coins in perfect condition

A plumber just months away from retirement lifted a section of floor in Vienna and uncovered a rusty box containing 30 kilograms of gold coins in perfect condition

By ECONEWS
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January 10, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Artist view of TOI-715 b, a super-Earth 137 light-years away in the habitable zone, orbiting a cool red dwarf star.

NASA detects a “super-Earth” just 137 light-years away in the habitable zone: the most intriguing detail is that its year lasts only 19 days

By ECONEWS
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January 9, 2026 at 4:55 AM
Earth briefly borrowed a second moon that may be made of lunar rock

Earth briefly borrowed a second moon that may be made of lunar rock

By ECONEWS
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January 8, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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