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A beaver dam of branches and mud holding back a wide pond at the edge of a wood

Two beavers released in Dorset built a 115-foot dam in a single year and turned a shaded wood into a wetland where an otter fishes and a barn owl hunts, and the dam is still holding water through the drought

By ECONEWS
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September 23, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Autonomous underwater vehicle being lowered into the sea from a ship

A 132-pound underwater robot surveyed North Sea drilling sites without a dedicated survey ship, and its developer says the system cut costs by up to 92% while producing detailed seabed maps in water more than 100 meters deep

By Adrian Villellas
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September 23, 2026 at 12:35 PM
Laboratory rat used in scientific research

Scientists put rats through 10 weeks of treadmill exercise and found the nerve hubs controlling their hearts changed in opposite ways, with roughly four times as many neurons on the right while cells on the left grew nearly twice as large

By Adrian Villellas
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September 23, 2026 at 10:11 AM
Fossil hominin skull from Dmanisi on display at the National Museum of Georgia

Scientists compared 87 human skulls spanning multiple Homo lineages and found that our bigger brains and smaller faces may not have emerged through a steady evolutionary push, but through long periods of anatomical stability interrupted when biological and environmental constraints finally loosened

By ECONEWS
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September 23, 2026 at 8:49 AM
U.S. Navy sailors deploying an unmanned underwater vehicle at sea

A 12.75-inch underwater robot autonomously entered a submerged 21-inch torpedo-tube test fixture in New York and then backed itself out, a precision maneuver that could eventually let U.S. submarines launch and recover drones without sending divers into the water

By Adrian Villellas
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September 23, 2026 at 6:27 AM
Bowhead whale surfacing among sea ice in the Arctic

Bowhead whales can live for more than 200 years despite weighing up to 200,000 pounds, and scientists found their cells repair dangerous DNA breaks unusually well, with one protein even improving DNA repair in human cells and extending lifespan in fruit flies

By ECONEWS
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September 22, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Muttsee dam wall high in the Swiss Alps above a mountain lake

Engineers hung 4,872 solar panels on a Swiss dam 8,200 feet above sea level while leaving a five-foot corridor behind them for inspections, and the first measured year showed the mountain installation produced 43% of its electricity during the winter half of the year

By ECONEWS
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September 22, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Meltwater ponds spreading across the surface of the Greenland ice sheet

Greenland lost about 105 billion metric tons of ice in the year ending August 2025, its 29th consecutive year of net loss, while satellites captured vast gray patches where dust and soot darkened the surface and allowed it to absorb even more sunlight

By Adrian Villellas
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September 22, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Row of wooden beehives standing in an open grassy field

An Ohio solar farm now shares its 196-megawatt site with more than 50 beehives and nearly 3 million honey bees, turning land around the panels into pollinator habitat while veteran beekeepers use the project to train other veterans and first responders in caring for colonies

By ECONEWS
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September 22, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Geodesic Cinerama Dome theater on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood

Hollywood’s iconic Cinerama Dome closed during the pandemic in 2020, but Sony is now restoring the 1963 landmark built from 316 interlocking concrete panels and plans to reopen it in early 2028 with its famous curved screen and midcentury character intact

By ECONEWS
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September 22, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Researcher adjusting laser optics on a laboratory bench

Scientists built the first all-optical photonic time crystal by making a material change its optical properties every trillionth of a second, and the strange experiment cut losses in light-and-electron oscillations by more than 50% while opening a possible path toward new terahertz lasers

By Adrian Villellas
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September 22, 2026 at 10:12 AM
Wind turbines rising above farm fields near Massena, Iowa

Researchers studied 200 wind turbines rising above Iowa corn and soybean fields for two summers and found they could cool the air by up to 0.75°C during the day and warm it by 1.5°C at night, but whether that actually produces more corn remains unanswered

By Adrian Villellas
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September 22, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Floating offshore wind turbine prototype anchored off the coast of Portugal

California approved $3 million to turn the mooring lines of floating wind turbines into underwater “nervous systems” that could listen for whale calls, detect snagged fishing gear and monitor structural strain along more than half a mile of cable

By ECONEWS
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September 22, 2026 at 6:28 AM
Juvenile osprey perched on a wooden post

Rescuers found a young osprey stranded near the shoreline in New York after dark, and despite its four-foot wingspan the bird was still dependent on its family, so they sheltered it through bad weather before returning it to the beach a few days later

By Adrian Villellas
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September 21, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Angsana trees shading red curved benches on a Singapore street

Singapore plans to plant 1 million additional trees by 2030, and research suggests well-placed shade could cut outdoor heat stress by 3°C to 5°C while models show trees may reduce summer air-conditioning energy use by 6% to 9% in humid cities

By Adrian Villellas
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September 21, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Lava and ash cloud from the La Palma volcano at night above the town lights

Scientists recreated magma from La Palma’s 2021 Tajogaite eruption and found that extreme heating could delay crystal formation from about 20 minutes to more than eight hours, keeping the magma fluid for longer and potentially helping produce towering lava fountains

By ECONEWS
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September 21, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Women harvesting seaweed on the shore at low tide

A 12-year-old Connecticut student combined algae with a natural mineral to explore a new way of reducing ocean acidification, and the experiment has now placed her among 10 finalists competing for a $25,000 prize in the 2026 3M Young Scientist Challenge

By Adrian Villellas
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September 21, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings crawling across the sand

Homeowners in the Florida Keys looked into their backyard swimming pool and found 64 baby sea turtles trapped in the chlorinated water after artificial lights led them away from the ocean, but every hatchling survived treatment and was later released into the Gulf Stream

By ECONEWS
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September 21, 2026 at 10:18 AM
Blue and yellow ribbon eel emerging from the reef

An underwater photographer in Mauritius spotted a ribbon eel outside the sandy burrow where these reef predators usually hide, capturing the blue-and-yellow fish swimming like a “silk scarf” and revealing the flowing body that divers rarely get to see in the open

By ECONEWS
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September 21, 2026 at 8:41 AM
Gravel road through rural Pennsylvania on a winter afternoon

Pennsylvania once used salty oil-and-gas wastewater to control dust on rural roads, but researchers found brine averaging about 2,000 picocuries of radium per liter could perform no better than rainwater under dry conditions while sending radioactive contaminants into runoff

By Adrian Villellas
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September 21, 2026 at 6:33 AM
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