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Seminoe Reservoir canyon in Wyoming, site of the pumped storage project

A Wyoming mountain could become a 972-megawatt water battery, but the project may disturb the trout waters below Seminoe Reservoir

By ECONEWS
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September 8, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Rendering of the Westinghouse AP300 small modular reactor design.

Westinghouse wants up to 91 nuclear units across several countries, but the real bottleneck may begin inside U.S. licensing offices

By ECONEWS
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September 8, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Four kittens found confined inside a taped grocery basket outside a BC SPCA shelter.

Four kittens survived inside a taped grocery basket outside a British Columbia shelter, but their rescue shows why drop-offs can turn dangerous

By ECONEWS
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September 7, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Arika Kundu holding produce while demonstrating her LIGNEX food-safety project.

A 13-year-old from Minnesota is testing peanut shells against pesticide residue, and the overlooked waste could become a food-safety tool

By ECONEWS
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September 7, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Mother opossum tangled in a soccer net with her joeys hidden underneath during the Florida rescue

A Florida opossum looked aggressive in a soccer net, but rescuers soon realized she was protecting her babies

By ECONEWS
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September 7, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Never the dog stepping through the glass balcony door into Mauro Tutzo's apartment

A dog named Never crossed onto a neighbor’s balcony, and one unexpected visit turned into a daily friendship neither saw coming

By ECONEWS
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September 7, 2026 at 10:45 AM
U.S. Navy AFDM 15 floating dry dock being maneuvered on the Mobile River in Alabama.

Austal launched a 694-foot Navy dry dock in Mobile, and the strange part is that it lifts warships by sinking first

By Adrian Villellas
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September 7, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Woman sitting apart from friends during a social gathering.

Psychology says the friend who never asks for help may be hiding a survival strategy learned long before adulthood

By ECONEWS
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September 7, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Interstate 10, the Katy Freeway, with its stacked managed lanes and frontage roads in Houston.

Houston built a 26-lane freeway to beat traffic, but the cars came back and exposed the trap behind wider roads

By Adrian Villellas
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September 6, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014 steam locomotive kicks off its coast-to-coast tour in Sacramento.

Union Pacific’s Big Boy crossed America at 1.2 million pounds, and the diesels behind it were not secretly doing the work

By ECONEWS
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September 6, 2026 at 5:00 PM
A harbor seal with a satellite tag swims at the surface.

Three harbor seals followed turbine rows in the North Sea, turning offshore wind foundations into hunting stops scientists did not expect

By ECONEWS
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September 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Solo sailor Matt Rutherford at the helm with an inset image of a pilot whale.

Pilot whales followed a lone sailor through Arctic fog, and the reason his 10,000-mile route is possible is the real warning

By Adrian Villellas
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September 6, 2026 at 10:15 AM
NASA's High Performance Spaceflight Computing processor held in a gloved hand.

NASA’s new space processor fits in a gloved hand, but its 500-times speed could change how spacecraft survive far from Earth

By ECONEWS
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September 6, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Ripe cranberries growing beneath elevated solar panels in Massachusetts.

A Massachusetts cranberry bog grew under solar panels, and the result shows why shade can help crops without proving sweeter fruit

By ECONEWS
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September 6, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Two large cooling towers rise above the Perry Nuclear Power Plant on Lake Erie in Ohio.

An Ohio nuclear plant left 850 acres untouched for safety, and a threatened spotted turtle found the wetland it needed

By ECONEWS
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September 5, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Stranded minke whale on an Atlantic Coast beach during the unusual mortality event investigated by NOAA.

A whale as long as a city bus can race through the ocean, but NOAA’s 212 strandings reveal a hidden coastal danger

By ECONEWS
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September 5, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Technicians inspecting a contaminated wind turbine blade from a suspended platform.

A hidden crust of insects can build up on wind-turbine blades during calm weather, then cut power production by up to 25% when stronger winds arrive, even though the machinery itself may be working perfectly

By Adrian Villellas
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September 5, 2026 at 3:00 PM
A lab technician holds a blood sample tube used to measure cholesterol levels.

Millions rely on LDL cholesterol tests to judge heart risk, but a new study suggests apoB may uncover dangerous particles those familiar numbers can miss and could help prevent more heart attacks and strokes

By ECONEWS
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September 5, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Archaeologists excavate storage pits and hearths inside the Coves del Fem rock shelter in Ulldemolins, Spain.

Archaeologists uncovered eight 8,000-year-old storage pits in Spain, but the deeper layers held an even rarer surprise, remarkably preserved traces of the last hunter-gatherers who lived there just before farming transformed the region

By ECONEWS
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September 5, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Flocean staff and local officials sample the first drinking water produced by the Flocean One subsea desalination pod in Mongstad, Norway.

Norway lowered a 22-ton desalination pod 1,640 feet below the sea, where natural ocean pressure helps it produce up to one million liters of drinking water a day while using far less energy than conventional plants

By ECONEWS
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September 5, 2026 at 6:30 AM
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