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Hand holding rice husks after harvest

They heated them to 900°C (1,652°F) for 8 hours, and something unexpected happened: the rice husks and palm fronds barely formed the dreaded “rocks” that clog boilers… and Colombia might have a more reliable rural fuel than we thought

By ECONEWS
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April 27, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Close-up of a Xiphactinus audax fossil skull and teeth from the Smithsonian collection.

They found a giant tooth embedded in the neck of a plesiosaur, and the “culprit” was not a marine reptile, but a massive predatory fish

By Adrian Villellas
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April 27, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Dinosaur footprint fossil on the Isle of Skye, where Jurassic tracks have helped scientists study ancient dinosaur movement.

The AI analyzed 1,974 unclassified tracks and raised some very troubling questions about the “bird tracks”

By Sonia Ramírez
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April 27, 2026 at 8:15 AM
Underwater view of ocean currents and suspended particles, representing changing sea conditions linked to El Niño patterns

El Niño could return as early as May through July 2026, and the latest official forecasts point to a possibility that has many experts on alert

By Sonia Ramírez
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April 27, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Half moon pits dug in the Sahara to capture rainwater and restore degraded desert land

They tried to slow down the advance of the Sahara with millions of bees… and they “melted” at over 70 °C. However, the solution that works is not biology, but geometry on the ground

By Adrian Villellas
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April 27, 2026 at 4:27 AM
Scientist examining plants and chemicals in a lab during research on pesticide exposure and environmental health

A pesticide that has been in use for decades may be causing wild fish to age from the inside out, even at doses so low that they do not kill the fish immediately

By Adrian Villellas
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April 27, 2026 at 3:54 AM
Underwater view of tethered industrial devices, representing advanced engineering systems similar to experimental energy infrastructure

The United States has never built anything like this before: now a startup wants to bury a small nuclear reactor 6,000 feet underground, with a target date of July 2026

By Kevin Montien
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April 26, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Bag of frozen green beans involved in recall after contamination reports linked to foreign objects in packaging

Jumbo is recalling 14- and 28-ounce bags of frozen green beans after several customers reported a discovery that was as disgusting as it was unsettling

By Adrian Villellas
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April 26, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Lightning flashes over trees during a thunderstorm, illustrating research on ultraviolet corona discharges in forest canopies

What they observed over the course of 90 minutes in the branches of a tree in the midst of a storm seems straight out of a science-fiction novel: 41 ultraviolet flashes invisible to the human eye and a major unanswered mystery

By Sonia Ramírez
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April 26, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Astronaut view of the Richat Structure, or Eye of the Sahara, showing concentric rings in the Mauritanian desert

NASA observes the Sahara from the International Space Station and detects a gigantic eye nearly 50 kilometers wide, whose origin is not as cosmic as it seems

By ECONEWS
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April 26, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Massive stone block from the Lighthouse of Alexandria being lifted from the sea during the PHAROS archaeology project

Twenty-two giant blocks from the legendary Lighthouse of Alexandria have been recovered from the seabed, and this discovery is rewriting the history of one of the world’s most famous wonders

By ECONEWS
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April 26, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Kemp’s ridley sea turtles moving across the sand on Padre Island National Seashore.

No one understood what that strange green creature was that washed up on a Texas beach on March 7, until they discovered it was one of the rarest turtles in the world

By Kevin Montien
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April 26, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Aerial view of dramatic rock folds and desert ridges in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains.

The folds in a 180-million-year-old rock hold a story that baffles scientists

By Adrian Villellas
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April 26, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Artist’s illustration of two young planets colliding and producing a large cloud of dust around a distant star

Astronomers have detected, for the first time and in real time, a violent collision between two young planets located 11,000 light-years away

By Kevin Montien
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April 26, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Fiddler crabs in Colombian mangroves where researchers found high microplastic accumulation

A study published on December 17, 2025, on mangroves in the Colombian Caribbean reveals that small crabs measuring just 1.2 inches can accumulate up to 13 times more microplastics than the mud and convert some of them into nanoplastics

By ECONEWS
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April 26, 2026 at 6:18 AM
Galápagos giant tortoise on grassy volcanic terrain in the Galápagos Islands

Between 1997 and 2006, the Galápagos Islands launched an operation that was as extreme as it was surprising to save their giant tortoises: they removed more than 140,000 invasive goats using helicopters, GPS, and a strategy that was as unusual as it was controversial

By Sonia Ramírez
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April 26, 2026 at 5:05 AM
Hydrokinetic turbines installed in the Rhine River generating electricity from flowing water without a dam

Germany is already testing a power plant on the Rhine equipped with 124 invisible turbines that continues to operate even after sunset and when the wind dies down

By ECONEWS
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April 25, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Portrait of Albert Einstein with physics equations on a blackboard, including the mass energy equivalence formula

Albert Einstein, a scientist, speaking to his son in 1900: “Life is like riding a bicycle: to keep your balance, you have to keep moving”

By Adrian Villellas
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April 25, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Basket filled with freshly caught blue crabs showing their blue claws and shells

Cannibalism is decimating blue crab larvae, but shallow waters still offer them a chance

By Kevin Montien
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April 25, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Artist’s illustration of a magma ocean exoplanet with a glowing molten surface and thick sulfur-rich atmosphere

Scientists reveal a new class of hellish planets with a permanent ocean of magma

By ECONEWS
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April 25, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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