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EV battery pack module on a test bench, illustrating Dongfeng’s 350 Wh/kg solid-state battery push for 2026.

The battery that was due to arrive in September 2026 with 350 Wh/kg and dizzying figures has just taken an unexpected turn

By ECONEWS
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January 1, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Social Security card on U.S. dollar bills, highlighting the 2026 COLA increase and rising Medicare Part B premiums

Social Security COLA 2026: checks rise 2.8%, but higher Medicare premiums will take part of the increase

By ECONEWS
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January 1, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Aerial view of Ford’s Saarlouis assembly plant in Germany, where the last Ford Focus was built.

Ford ends production of the Focus after 27 years as compact cars give way to crossovers

By ECONEWS
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January 1, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Overloaded red pickup truck with unsecured debris in the bed, illustrating the danger of loose cargo on highways.

A truck was stopped for improperly secured cargo in Tennessee, and minute by minute, the inspection uncovered a series of faults that ended up with the driver, tractor, and trailer out of service

By ECONEWS
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December 31, 2025 at 1:32 PM
If you thought “something was entering the atmosphere,” you weren’t the only one. What people saw in Alabama and Georgia lines up with the Taurid meteors that show up in the fall and surprise people with how bright they are.

If you thought “something was entering the atmosphere,” you weren’t the only one. What people saw in Alabama and Georgia lines up with the Taurid meteors that show up in the fall and surprise people with how bright they are

By ECONEWS
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December 31, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Scrubland at dusk in Andhra Pradesh where Jerdon’s courser was recorded, with inset of the critically endangered bird.

Night recordings in India confirm that Jerdon’s courser, one of the rarest birds in the world, still survives

By ECONEWS
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December 31, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Cracked Martian rock revealing bright yellow crystals in Curiosity rover track at Gediz Vallis, Mount Sharp.

Curiosity drove over a rock on Mars, accidentally breaking it, and what appeared inside left scientists with more questions than answers

By ECONEWS
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December 30, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Mars south pole “Inca City” with dark seasonal CO₂-jet spots (“spiders”) appearing on polar terrain, ESA Mars Express view.

It looked like just another photo of Mars’s south pole until hundreds of black spots started to appear, and someone at the ESA said, “This shouldn’t look like this”

By ECONEWS
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December 30, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Supermassive black hole surrounded by a glowing accretion disk as space-time twists under extreme gravity

A supermassive black hole would have revealed its spin by “twisting” space-time and causing a disk and jet to wobble at the same time

By ECONEWS
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December 30, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Artist’s impression of a blue-whale-size sea monster (giant ichthyosaur) stranded on a beach.

An 11-year-old girl saw enormous bones on a beach and, without knowing it, had just triggered the search for a “sea monster” the size of a blue whale

By ECONEWS
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December 29, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Government official at a podium adjusts an earpiece, with EU, Canada and Germany flags behind him.

Canada Pension Plan and Old Age Security payments arrive early on December 22, 2025

By ECONEWS
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December 29, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Total solar eclipse above Earth’s horizon, illustrating the 2027 eclipse expected to be one of the longest of the century.

The longest solar eclipse of the century is coming in 2027: where and how to see it

By ECONEWS
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December 29, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Map showing the clockwise rotation of the Iberian Peninsula caused by tectonic stress between Africa and Eurasia

Scientists confirm that the Iberian Peninsula has been rotating for thousands of years, driven by deep and invisible forces within the Earth, without anyone noticing

By ECONEWS
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December 28, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Ceramic jugs and plates scattered on the seafloor at the Camarat 4 16th-century shipwreck, over 2,500 meters deep.

A 16th-century ship is discovered by chance at a depth of more than 2,500 meters, completely rewriting the important history of the Mediterranean

By ECONEWS
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December 28, 2025 at 9:39 AM
James Webb Space Telescope image highlighting supernova GRB 250314A with an inset callout

Scientists capture a flash of light that lasted only ten seconds and turns out to have reached Earth after a journey of 13 billion years

By ECONEWS
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December 28, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Federal Reserve seal as rate cuts raise worries about the 2027 Social Security COLA

The Federal Reserve cuts interest rates: what it could mean for the 2027 Social Security COLA

By ECONEWS
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December 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
A small world 66 times the distance between Earth and the Sun appears after almost 20 years of monitoring and now forces us to rewrite how the edge of the solar system was born

A small world 66 times the distance between Earth and the Sun appears after almost 20 years of monitoring and now forces us to rewrite how the edge of the solar system was born

By ECONEWS
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December 27, 2025 at 8:46 AM
California Highway Patrol traffic ticket notice to appear held in a driver’s hand

In California, driving with the flow of traffic above the speed limit can cost you up to $490

By ECONEWS
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December 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Gnarled trunk and roots of an ancient olive tree in Crete beside a small building, still green with leaves.

In a quiet village in Crete, an olive tree between 2,000 and 4,000 years old continues to produce new leaves and small olives, as if time had stood still

By ECONEWS
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December 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Space debris fragments orbiting Earth as ESA warns of a growing risk to satellites and space infrastructure.

ESA estimates more than 1.1 million pieces of space debris larger than 1 cm orbit Earth

By ECONEWS
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December 26, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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