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Rusting ships stranded on the dry bed of the Aral Sea near Moynaq, Uzbekistan

The Aral Sea was once the world’s fourth-largest lake, but after Soviet irrigation diverted its rivers, fishing boats were left stranded in a 23,000-square-mile desert while Kazakhstan revived part of the water and Uzbekistan planted 4.2 million acres of the exposed lakebed

By Adrian Villellas
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September 20, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Children using tablet computers in a classroom

Researchers followed 260 Finnish children for eight years expecting more screen time to signal weaker thinking skills, but by age 15 those reporting greater use actually showed better overall cognitive performance, although the study could not prove screens caused the difference

By ECONEWS
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September 20, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Stray dog with her puppies resting in a rural courtyard

A woman stopped beside a wooded road in Brazil after spotting two abandoned puppies, but as she approached more kept emerging until the rescue grew into an entire group that took three hours to save and had to squeeze into a refuge already caring for 164 animals

By Adrian Villellas
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September 20, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Australian magpie perched on a branch in Sydney

Researchers fitted five Australian magpies with GPS trackers to map their movements, but within an hour the birds began helping one another remove the harnesses, turning a failed tracking experiment into an unexpected observation of cooperation and problem-solving

By ECONEWS
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September 20, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Trojan Nuclear Power Plant cooling tower beside the Columbia River in Oregon

In 1999, workers filled a 42-foot nuclear reactor vessel with 200 tons of concrete and moved the 1,020-ton package 300 miles by barge and a 320-wheel trailer, but 791 spent fuel assemblies from the same Oregon plant are still waiting in storage today

By ECONEWS
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September 20, 2026 at 1:00 PM
People cycling along a canal street in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Dutch men went from averaging about 5 feet 5 inches in the mid-1800s to nearly 6 feet today, gaining almost 8 inches in roughly 150 years, but researchers found natural selection may explain less than 2% of that extraordinary national growth spurt

By ECONEWS
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September 20, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Three tall men walking together on a street in Amsterdam with Dutch canal houses behind them

Dutch men grew about 20 centimeters in 150 years, going from among Europe’s shortest to its tallest, and a simulation shows natural selection explains less than half a centimeter of that change

By ECONEWS
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September 20, 2026 at 6:33 AM
Microscopy images of epithelial tissue showing keratin networks and cell nuclei

Scientists stretched living tissue for hours and watched its internal keratin scaffolding rebuild itself into thick networks spanning multiple cells, but the strangest part came when the same process gradually pushed the nuclei out of the protective cages surrounding them

By ECONEWS
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September 20, 2026 at 5:38 AM
Brown and white dog with a collar sitting on the floor of a store aisle

A dog with a pink collar wandered alone into a Dollar Tree, and employees soon noticed something wasn’t right when he started bumping into the shelves

By ECONEWS
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September 19, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Aerial view of the Sysav waste-to-energy plant in Malmö, Sweden, at sunset beside a canal

Sweden imported 3.86 million metric tons of other countries’ waste in 2024 and gets paid to burn it for heat and electricity, but the system still releases fossil CO2 and is not the same as recycling

By Adrian Villellas
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September 19, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Northrop Grumman Manta Ray uncrewed underwater vehicle gliding through blue water

Northrop Grumman’s Manta Ray underwater drone for DARPA fits into five shipping containers, glides by pumping seawater, and can anchor to the ocean floor to “hibernate” and save energy

By ECONEWS
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September 19, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Brown and white mouse sitting on a white background

A drug first developed for spinal cord injuries reduced DNA damage and brain inflammation in mice with Alzheimer’s, and because it already passed a safety trial in 109 people, researchers believe it could reach patients faster

By ECONEWS
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September 19, 2026 at 12:38 PM
Black sea bass swimming above a reef covered with sponges and corals as schools of small fish pass overhead

South Fork Wind’s 12 turbines off Long Island are already working as artificial reefs, and black sea bass catches were ten times higher at nearby Block Island, but scientists warn that more fish around a turbine doesn’t mean more fish in the ocean

By Adrian Villellas
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September 19, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Offshore wind turbine with a damaged blade standing in calm ocean water off Nantucket

A wind turbine blade broke off Nantucket in 2024 and scattered fiberglass on the beaches, Vineyard Wind now alleges 66 of its 72 blades had bonding flaws, and two years later the federal investigation still has no end date

By Adrian Villellas
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September 19, 2026 at 8:51 AM
Prairie rattlesnake coiled among grass, yellow flowers and white rocks

Researchers tracking prairie rattlesnakes in Wyoming kept finding “piles” of snakes shedding their skin together, a behavior never documented before in this species

By ECONEWS
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September 19, 2026 at 6:23 AM
Fossil bone next to the 1985 field notebook from an Antarctic expedition

A fossil collected in Antarctica in 1985 sat in a museum drawer for 40 years labeled as a marine reptile, until scientists took another look and discovered the four-inch bone belonged to a 20-foot titanosaur that lived roughly 82 million years ago

By ECONEWS
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September 19, 2026 at 5:06 AM
Large Atlantic bluefin tuna swimming in blue open ocean water

An Atlantic bluefin tuna starts life no bigger than an eyelash, but the species holds a 1,496-pound world record, and scientists can read its age from tiny rings inside its head

By Adrian Villellas
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September 18, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Two steelhead swimming close to the gravel bed of a clear river

After two years in the Pacific, hundreds of steelhead swam back to Oregon’s Deschutes River on a 600-mile round trip, helping push the number of adults moved above Round Butte Dam past 950 in a record season

By Adrian Villellas
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September 18, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Pile of old mobile phones and smartphones, including classic keypad models

A metric ton of old mobile phones can hold 100 times more gold than a metric ton of gold ore, yet only 22.3% of the world’s electronic waste is formally collected and recycled

By Adrian Villellas
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September 18, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Three archive photos showing eroded bare hills in Pohang, South Korea, gradually covered by vegetation after reforestation

South Korea planted more than 10 billion trees after the Korean War, and by 2020 its forests held 29 times more wood per hectare than in 1953, but the real secret was checking which seedlings survived

By ECONEWS
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September 18, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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