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Litter of young puppies resting together on a blanket

A passerby spotted movement inside an abandoned shopping cart in Los Angeles and discovered three 8-week-old puppies, beginning a rescue that took Wynken, Blynken and Nod from the street to veterinary care and foster homes, with two of them later finding permanent families

By Adrian Villellas
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September 25, 2026 at 12:32 PM
SpaceX Starship rocket standing on its launch mount before a test flight

SpaceX recovered Ship 40 after its 171-foot Starship upper stage survived reentry, splashed down in the Indian Ocean and spent about 24 days at sea, giving engineers the first largely intact spacecraft of its kind to inspect for clues hidden in its battered heat shield

By ECONEWS
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September 25, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Satellite view of the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica

The Ross Ice Shelf is roughly the size of Spain and acts as a giant brake on Antarctic glaciers, but scientists monitoring beneath its hundreds of meters of floating ice have found warm summer water can nearly triple melting in vulnerable areas hidden from view

By Adrian Villellas
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September 25, 2026 at 8:48 AM
Dog wearing EEG electrodes during a test

Researchers in Hungary recorded the brain waves of 14 dogs told to wait beside a treat and found a frontal rhythm that resembles the signal linked to self-control in humans

By Adrian Villellas
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September 25, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Rows of cherry tomato plants growing inside a greenhouse

A Swiss greenhouse installed 1,736 solar modules above working tomato crops and produced up to 1 MWh of electricity a day while cutting summer grid use by 35%, yet the surprising result was that tomato yields did not fall and were actually 1% higher

By Adrian Villellas
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September 25, 2026 at 6:31 AM
A cereal crop growing beneath solar panels mounted high above the field on a steel frame

A Massachusetts farmer grows sweet corn under 832 solar panels raised 10 feet above the soil, and he still harvests 80% of what the open field next door gives him

By Adrian Villellas
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September 25, 2026 at 5:22 AM
Reddish two-lobed Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth photographed by New Horizons

NASA flew New Horizons within 2,200 miles of Arrokoth, a strange two-lobed world about 4 billion miles from the Sun, and its remarkably intact shape suggests two ancient planetary building blocks may have joined at barely 11 mph more than 4.5 billion years ago

By Adrian Villellas
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September 24, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Full-length photographic negative of the Shroud of Turin

Scientists recovered DNA from humans, crops, domestic animals, microbes and even Mediterranean red coral from 1978 samples of the Shroud of Turin, but nearly 50 years later the genetic “guest book” still cannot reveal when the cloth was made or prove its authenticity

By ECONEWS
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September 24, 2026 at 4:53 PM
A blended wing body research aircraft banking in flight, its centre body merging into the wings

China has tested a flying wing built to carry more than 800 passengers with an 85-meter span wider than an A380, and the real obstacle is not the aircraft but the airports that would have to park it

By Adrian Villellas
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September 24, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Monarch butterfly feeding on pink milkweed flowers

Florida researchers are planting up to 15,000 native milkweeds along North Florida roadsides through 2029, turning overlooked highway land into potential feeding and breeding habitat where monarch butterflies have already begun using the new plants

By Adrian Villellas
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September 24, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Close-up of a gold pagoda coin from southern India showing a worn raised design

Workers digging near a student hostel in a Karnataka village opened an earthen pot filled with 14 gold coins stamped with elephants, and what matters most is not the million rupees but the soil they came out of

By ECONEWS
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September 24, 2026 at 1:25 PM
Purple saffron crocus flowers blooming in a field

Colorado researchers grew saffron beneath semi-transparent rooftop solar panels and harvested twice as many flowers and twice as much dried spice as unshaded plots, with a five-year model projecting about $61,000 from electricity, saffron and new plants

By Adrian Villellas
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September 24, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Young raccoon peeking out from between lavender plants

A baby raccoon found limping inside a Virginia storm drain turned out to have three broken legs, but after being rescued and treated her bones began “fusing beautifully” and veterinarians were able to remove the casts while she continued recovering

By ECONEWS
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September 24, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Burmese python coiled on the ground in Everglades National Park

Biologists removed 177 Burmese pythons weighing more than 8,000 pounds from just 200 square miles of Florida, but the bigger blow may have been stopping roughly 4,100 eggs from hatching into another generation of invasive predators

By Adrian Villellas
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September 24, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Circular icefish nests on the muddy seabed of the Weddell Sea, with adult fish guarding their eggs

A camera towed over the Weddell Sea floor kept finding the same circular nest again and again, until researchers realized they had stumbled onto 60 million icefish nests spread across 93 square miles of Antarctic seabed

By ECONEWS
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September 24, 2026 at 8:12 AM
Crevassed ice and snow-covered terrain in East Antarctica photographed from an aircraft

Antarctica gained 695 billion tons of ice in less than two years, the largest increase in the satellite record, and the cause was warm tropical water thousands of miles away that changes nothing about where the continent is heading

By ECONEWS
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September 24, 2026 at 6:48 AM
Stockman on horseback mustering cattle across dry grassland in Australia

The world’s largest working cattle station spans about 6,080 square miles and holds 17,000 cattle, yet its headquarters runs mainly on just 49 kW of rooftop solar and batteries, with careful planning essential because forgetting one critical part can mean a 1,120-mile round trip

By ECONEWS
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September 24, 2026 at 6:33 AM
Wind turbines standing on farmland near Madison, New York

New York demolished all seven turbines at its pioneering Madison wind farm in just 30 seconds after 25 years of operation, but a proposed neighboring project with nearly seven times the capacity now has its grid-connection application listed as withdrawn

By Adrian Villellas
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September 23, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Tail flukes of a humpback whale diving below the ocean surface

A juvenile humpback whale in Alaska was trapped by two 800-pound crab pots anchored to the seafloor, and after five hours rescuers made four carefully placed cuts that freed the animal to swim away, although a piece of rope remained threaded through its mouth

By ECONEWS
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September 23, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Pigeon perched on the edge of a house roof

Phoenix homeowners are discovering that the shaded gap beneath rooftop solar panels can become a nesting spot for pigeons, and experts say a simple mesh barrier may work better than ultrasonic gadgets while protecting airflow and keeping droppings from reducing solar output

By ECONEWS
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September 23, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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