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Artist's impression of Chariklo and its two narrow rings, studied with the James Webb Space Telescope, with the distant Sun in the upper right

Between Saturn and Uranus, James Webb Space Telescope data show Chariklo’s inner ring about 50% more opaque than in earlier observations, and its outer ring’s signal about 60% weaker than in 2017

By Adrian Villellas
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October 22, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Lidded bronze vessel with ring handles from the Qin royal cemetery linked to Queen Dowager Huayang near Xi'an

Archaeologists mapping a Qin royal cemetery beside Xi’an’s airport in China recovered 258 finds around a 656-foot tomb, and one researcher argues it belongs to Queen Dowager Huayang, the first emperor’s adoptive grandmother

By ECONEWS
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October 22, 2026 at 7:31 AM
The rusted hull of the SS Ayrfield covered in mangrove trees in Homebush Bay, Sydney

In Sydney’s Homebush Bay, the SS Ayrfield, a 1911 collier abandoned at a scrapyard, has become a floating forest of mangroves, and the bay it sits in needed a dioxin cleanup that ran until 2010

By Adrian Villellas
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October 22, 2026 at 6:31 AM
Bara, one of five rescued moon bears from a South Korean bile farm, walking on grass beside a log at Jimmy's Farm & Wildlife Park

In Suffolk, England, five moon bears rescued from a South Korean bile farm after more than 20 years in cages finished a 5,500-mile journey, and 219 bears were still on Korean farms in June

By ECONEWS
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October 21, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Vent pipes above underground homes on a rocky hillside in Coober Pedy, South Australia, with the town and desert behind

In South Australia’s opal town of Coober Pedy, about half of residents live in underground homes that stay between 66 and 77°F, and SA Water takes over the town’s aging water system before 2027

By Adrian Villellas
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October 21, 2026 at 6:31 PM
NASA astronaut Anil Menon on an Aug. 6, 2026, spacewalk outside the International Space Station to prepare for new roll-out solar arrays

Outside the International Space Station, NASA’s Anil Menon and Canada’s Joshua Kutryk will install the last two roll-out solar arrays on Oct. 29 and Nov. 5, lifting station power to about 215 kilowatts

By ECONEWS
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October 21, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Illustration of the KIT heat-driven cooling system, with a heated nickel-titanium film pulling a second film that cools a computer chip

At Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, a prototype cooling system uses heat instead of an electric motor to stretch an ultrathin metal film, and it reached a 4°C temperature difference across the device

By ECONEWS
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October 21, 2026 at 5:01 PM
NOAA slide from the October 2026 El Niño 2026 briefing on why the agency monitors and predicts ENSO

In Princeton, New Jersey, NOAA forecaster Nat Johnson ranked the 2026 El Niño the second strongest on record through August, and the agency now gives a very strong event through early winter its highest odds

By ECONEWS
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October 21, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Asian elephant Sandro standing among palm trees and tall grass in the male habitat at Elephant Sanctuary Brazil

In Brazil’s Chapada dos Guimarães, Asian elephant Sandro, about 54, walked out of a crate after 44 years at the Sorocaba Zoo, and on his second night he chose to sleep outside under the stars

By Adrian Villellas
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October 21, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Buried cotton underwear in various stages of decomposition hung on a line above a wheat field

Across Switzerland, 1,000 volunteers buried over 2,000 pairs of cotton underwear, and within two months gardens broke down about 58 percent of the fabric in soils holding roughly four times the phosphorus of farm fields

By ECONEWS
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October 21, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Calm blue water of Lake Nasser seen from the top of the Aswan High Dam, with a rocky shore and sandy road in the foreground

On Lake Nasser behind Egypt’s Aswan High Dam, an estimated 3.2 trillion gallons evaporate each year, more than the Seine carries through Paris, and a 1959 treaty budgeted for 2.6 trillion gallons in storage losses

By Adrian Villellas
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October 21, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Robert-Bourassa (LG-2) reservoir in Quebec's La Grande complex, where flooding raised mercury in fish, with a forested island under a cloudy sky

In northern Quebec’s La Grande hydroelectric complex, flooding pushed mercury in fish to 2 to 8 times natural lake levels, and the Cree health board now says most local fish can be eaten safely

By ECONEWS
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October 21, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Sand drifts filling a blue-walled room and doorway in the Al Madam ghost village in Sharjah, UAE

In Sharjah’s Al Madam ghost village, about 31 miles from Dubai, sand fills houses residents left in 1994, and a wind tunnel test reproduced the sand pattern around two of its buildings even in the details

By Adrian Villellas
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October 21, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Close-up of one of the snow-Tanner hybrid crabs from the Bering Sea, showing its rounded mouth

In Alaska’s Bering Sea, snow-Tanner hybrid crabs became 13.4 times more abundant after a marine heatwave wiped out billions of snow crabs, and in 2025 they made up 41.7 percent of commercial-sized males

By Adrian Villellas
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October 21, 2026 at 9:24 AM
Artist's impression of a star engulfing a rocky world, with a blue line tracing the planet's spiral into the star

Inside the Sun, an Ege University astronomer’s models hint that our star may have swallowed a rocky world of five to ten Earth masses, and the best fit points to about 5.6 times Earth’s mass

By ECONEWS
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October 21, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Pacific mastodon molar lying in the shallow water of a San Mateo County creek

In a San Mateo County creek, a geomorphologist surveying habitat for threatened California red-legged frogs found an intact Pacific mastodon molar, a species only named in 2019, and Stanford plans to carbon date it

By Adrian Villellas
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October 21, 2026 at 7:31 AM
Angrite meteorite NWA 12774 under cross-polarized light, with bright multicolored crystals in a dark groundmass

Out of the Sahara Desert, a 1-pound angrite meteorite called NWA 12774 carries crystals that grew under more than 17 kilobars of pressure, and they point to a lost world at least 1,240 miles across

By ECONEWS
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October 21, 2026 at 6:31 AM
Visualization of star orbits around Sagittarius A*, with the orange orbit of S301, the fastest known star in the Milky Way

At the center of the Milky Way, astronomers found the fastest known star, S301, reaching about 15,900 miles per second near Sagittarius A*, and its 8.7-year orbit could reveal how fast the black hole spins

By Adrian Villellas
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October 20, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Milu deer, including an antlered stag, wading and drinking in a pond at Beijing Wildlife Park in China

On the Yangtze River in China’s Hubei province, 36 Milu deer escaped a flooded nature reserve in May 1998, and by the end of 2009 the escapees and their descendants numbered more than 500

By ECONEWS
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October 20, 2026 at 6:31 PM
The Airbus A330 C-GITS that flew as Air Transat Flight 236, known as the Azores Glider, on the runway at Toronto Pearson in 2016

Over the Atlantic in 2001, Air Transat Flight 236 lost power to both engines and glided about 75 miles for roughly 19 minutes, and all 306 people aboard survived a hard landing in the Azores

By Adrian Villellas
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October 20, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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