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A wall-mounted computer built from hundreds of vacuum tubes arranged in a cross shape next to a tall yellow numeric display

A retired hobbyist built a vacuum tube computer from 460 recycled 1950s tubes, and the 8-bit machine needs about 10 minutes to stabilize and, in his words, heats the entire room

By ECONEWS
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October 5, 2026 at 6:31 AM
A diver hangs a branch of coral on an underwater coral tree nursery

A Florida father and daughter started growing staghorn coral for a 4-H project around 2000, and after a 2023 heatwave killed 98% to 100% of wild staghorn and elkhorn in the Keys, the nurseries that grew out of it are banking the survivors’ genes

By Adrian Villellas
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October 4, 2026 at 6:27 PM
A yellow driverless container vehicle with a banner marking 25 million TEUs parked under green quay cranes at Tuas Port

Singapore built 227 concrete caissons, each about 10 stories tall, for a 9.1-kilometer seawall at Tuas Port, and its operator’s own report shows emissions rose 7% in 2025 as more cargo moved to the electric terminal

By ECONEWS
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October 4, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Detail of a Paracas ceremonial mantle with rows of embroidered figures

Archaeologists measured 200 obsidian points from Paracas sites in southern Peru and found every complete one was a spearthrower dart, and through four violent centuries nobody there seems to have bothered with the bow

By Adrian Villellas
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October 4, 2026 at 2:58 PM
A blackened, fire-damaged room with burned furniture

Sleeping with the bedroom door closed is being sold online as the sign of a confident personality, but the strongest evidence is about fire, where closed rooms in tests stayed below 100°F while open ones passed 1,000°F

By ECONEWS
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October 4, 2026 at 12:28 PM
A worker in a white hard hat handles core samples in a field in Wyoming

A Wyoming coal mine bought for $2 million in 2011 holds what Ramaco calls the largest unconventional rare earth deposit in the US, and a new engineering report has pushed first production back to 2031

By Adrian Villellas
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October 4, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Floating sea ice floe in the Arctic

Engineers at UC Riverside simulated 2,000 floating ice floes and found that constant collisions between neighbors explain why Arctic sea ice spreads more slowly than the wind alone would push it

By ECONEWS
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October 4, 2026 at 6:52 AM
Swallows perched in rows on power lines before their autumn migration

Swallows and house martins have almost vanished from the ponds of a Czech town before October, when in many years they are still around, and an ornithologist says most migrants are already gone

By Javier Niño
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October 4, 2026 at 6:05 AM
Illustration of a Diplodocus in a Jurassic landscape

Paleontologists in Spain identified 14 tail bones from Teruel as Diplodocus, the first scientifically documented find of the famous dinosaur outside North America, though some experts want more proof

By ECONEWS
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October 3, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Illustration of a plesiosaur in shallow water

A geologist studying drill cores from under the North Sea found Jurassic fossil vomit packed with shells and squid-like remains, and he believes long-necked plesiosaurs brought it up in river deltas

By Adrian Villellas
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October 3, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Grauer's gorilla mother holding her infant in the forest

Lulingu, a gorilla rescued as an orphan from traffickers, gave birth in the wild in Congo’s Virunga National Park, a milestone for a mountain group of Grauer’s gorillas that had dropped to just eight

By ECONEWS
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October 3, 2026 at 8:49 AM
Woman listening to music with headphones

Researchers in China stressed 120 young adults and found relaxing music helped their heart rate and mood recover faster than water sounds, while listening beforehand did not blunt the stress

By Adrian Villellas
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October 3, 2026 at 6:27 AM
Father hugging his young daughter outdoors

A Rutgers study of nearly 1,700 people found fathers of daughters felt more committed to their child’s mother than fathers of sons, and in couples tracked from pregnancy the gap began after birth

By ECONEWS
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October 2, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Researcher with a miniature horse outdoors

A UC Davis study found just three minutes with miniature horses and donkeys left 61 teenagers calmer and less lonely, and those who saw an animal choose to walk away felt the biggest drop in sadness

By Adrian Villellas
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October 2, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Elderly man walking through a green orchard

A Finnish study that followed 2,690 men for decades found 42% of those with good cardiovascular health in their early 40s lived to 90, versus 7% of those with the poorest, and they were less frail

By ECONEWS
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October 2, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Insect remains recovered from the Cruz de la Esquina cave

Researchers sifting 8,173 insect remains from a burial cave on Gran Canaria found granary weevils revealing it first stored grain, and blowflies showing the dead were placed inside right after death

By Adrian Villellas
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October 2, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Grayscale mosaic of a long wrinkle ridge crossing cratered volcanic plains on Mercury

Scientists found fewer wrinkles on Mercury’s roughest ground, and now put its lost radius at 7.2 miles

By ECONEWS
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October 2, 2026 at 11:37 AM
Excavated remains of the Ursoaia pottery kiln in Romania

Archaeologists in Romania excavated a 6,000-year-old pottery kiln with an 81-square-foot floor and replaceable clay slabs, the largest of its kind, suggesting potters worked beyond household needs

By ECONEWS
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October 2, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Saildrone 1092, a crewless sailboat, heading south from Storm Bay off Tasmania

In the Southern Ocean, four 23-foot crewless sailboats will measure CO2 where ships rarely go in winter

By Javier Niño
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October 2, 2026 at 9:29 AM
Medieval illustration of dogs attacking a chained bear

A bear shoulder blade found in England in 1864 helped show that bear-baiting was established by the 12th century, about 400 years before Shakespeare’s London, as imports of live bears grew after 1066

By Adrian Villellas
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October 2, 2026 at 8:42 AM
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