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Silver bars, rings and cut silver packed inside an old clay pot

Someone laying a patio in northern Denmark dug up the country’s largest known Viking silver hoard, 18.5 kilograms of bracelets, bars and coins, and one bar is scratched with a runic word experts have never seen before

By Adrian Villellas
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October 6, 2026 at 6:33 AM
A streaked brown shorebird standing on dry grass

Only about one in three Arctic tundra shorebirds come back to the same breeding area each year, against two in three elsewhere, and at the tundra’s northern edge it falls to one in ten, a Max Planck study found

By Adrian Villellas
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October 5, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Volunteers in yellow safety vests clearing trash from a wooded creek bank

A California retiree started picking up litter on her pandemic walks, and the volunteer group she built in the San Fernando Valley says it has now hauled away nearly 750,000 pounds of trash

By ECONEWS
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October 5, 2026 at 5:02 PM
A Burmese python coiled on a tree branch

Researchers have about 90 robotic rabbits out in the Everglades to lure Burmese pythons into view, after live rabbits drew 21 python detections to camera pens against one at an empty pen

By ECONEWS
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October 5, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Okanagan Lake with a rounded hill on the far shore under a clear sky

Someone paid C$200 at a yard sale in southern Ontario for E.J. Hughes’ Okanagan Lake, and the painting sold for C$402,500 at auction in 2007, months after the reclusive British Columbia painter died

By Adrian Villellas
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October 5, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Rows of solar panels cleaned by Ecoppia robots

Robots built by the Israeli company Ecoppia roll along desert solar panels every night and brush off the dust without a drop of water, saving about 2.6 billion gallons so far, according to the company

By ECONEWS
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October 5, 2026 at 11:49 AM
A white mug filled with black coffee on a wooden table

A study of nearly 1 million UK adults found that people who like their tea or coffee very hot had about three times the risk of one type of esophageal cancer, and the researchers’ advice is simply to let it cool

By ECONEWS
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October 5, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Three sarcophagi in a vaulted marble chamber, with a gray-green stone sarcophagus on the left

Norway’s King Harald V now lies in a boat-shaped sarcophagus carved from olivine, a green Norwegian rock that can bind CO2, but no one has measured how much carbon the royal tomb will actually take up

By Adrian Villellas
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October 5, 2026 at 8:46 AM
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
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