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Himalayan pangolin, Manis aurita, walking across the ground.

A pangolin collected in 1836 sat inside a museum for nearly 190 years until scientists extracted its DNA and discovered the forgotten animal belonged to a species that had been hiding in plain sight

By ECONEWS
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August 24, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Saturn's moon Titan with sunlight reflecting near its methane seas through the hazy atmosphere.

Saturn’s moon Titan has clouds, rain, rivers, lakes and seas that look strangely familiar from space, but at temperatures near -297°F the liquid flowing across this frozen world is methane instead of water

By ECONEWS
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August 24, 2026 at 6:26 AM
Artist's impression of the proposed Mersey Tidal Power barrage across the River Mersey.

Britain wants to build a wall across a working river with 28 turbines, hold back a 33-foot tide and generate power for 120 years, but the giant project still has not been told exactly where to stand

By Adrian Villellas
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August 23, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Soviet researchers examine the tortoises carried around the Moon aboard Zond 5 in 1968.

In 1968, two Soviet steppe tortoises flew around the Moon and returned alive to Earth before Apollo 8 carried humans there

By ECONEWS
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August 23, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Row of yellow school buses parked at a transportation depot in Texas.

Texas school buses can turn dangerously hot before children even reach class, and researchers are finding that the metal boxes carrying students every day may be trapping far more heat than parents realize

By ECONEWS
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August 23, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Neanderthal reconstruction representing one of the archaic human groups known to have contributed DNA to modern humans.

Scientists analyzed hundreds of human genomes and found DNA from two unknown ancient groups: a ghost lineage that split off 800,000 years ago, and another dating back 1.8 million years

By ECONEWS
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August 23, 2026 at 10:15 AM
cebergs floating in an Alaskan glacial lake surrounded by snow-covered mountains.

An Alaskan glacier block weighing 2,500 pounds arrived in Iowa in 1977 by helicopter and refrigerated truck, testing whether icebergs could become drinking water for nations desperate for it

By Adrian Villellas
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August 23, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Piles of cured oyster shells ready for coastal reef restoration along a Florida shore.

Florida communities collect oyster shells from restaurants, cure them in the sun, and return them to shore to build reefs, but viral claims of 500,000 tons and 25-year highs lack proof

By ECONEWS
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August 23, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Moken child swimming underwater without goggles in the Andaman Sea.

Moken children in the Andaman Sea free-dive without goggles and see clearly underwater, a skill years of practice, not dolphin-like biology, trained into their eyes

By ECONEWS
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August 22, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Argentine ants tending honeydew-producing pests on a plant.

Argentine ants defend citrus pests from predators in California’s groves and vineyards, raising honeydew pressure and weakening biological control, after spreading from South America in 1891

By ECONEWS
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August 22, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Pink dye tracer spreads across the ocean during an alkalinity enhancement experiment near Cape Cod.

Researchers released 16,500 gallons of sodium hydroxide into the ocean near Cape Cod, the first EPA-permitted trial of its kind, and a dye tracer followed the patch for five days

By ECONEWS
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August 22, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Brazilian geneticist Warwick Kerr handling honey bees during his research.

Brazilian geneticist Warwick Kerr bred honey bees for tropical heat in 1956, and 26 swarming colonies spread across the Western Hemisphere by 1990, transforming pollination patterns

By ECONEWS
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August 22, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Globe skimmer dragonfly flying with its wings extended.

A globe skimmer dragonfly barely 1.5 inches long may fly 3,700 miles across generations, and DNA now links its populations across Asia and the Americas in one migration circuit

By Adrian Villellas
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August 22, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Invasive iceplant being removed from California coastal dunes

California’s iceplant from South Africa spreads three feet a year across bluffs and dunes, crowding native plants, and pulling it out turns out to be only the first step

By ECONEWS
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August 22, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Magnolia aromatica blooming inside a sinkhole in Leye County, China

China’s karst sinkholes shelter the endangered Magnolia aromatica from heat and drought, yet genetic research found populations inside carry more harmful mutations and less diversity than trees outside, weakening their adaptability

By Adrian Villellas
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August 21, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Vostok Station above Lake Vostok beneath the Antarctic ice sheet

Lake Vostok lies liquid four kilometers beneath Antarctic ice at minus 3°C, not from antifreeze but from pressure lowering water’s melting point while thick ice slows heat loss and Earth’s internal energy persists

By ECONEWS
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August 21, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Przewalski's horses standing on an abandoned road in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

Forty years after Chernobyl, wolves, lynx, Przewalski’s horses, and wild boar now use the exclusion zone at sevenfold density, showing how quickly large mammals benefit when human pressure vanishes across vast connected areas

By Adrian Villellas
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August 21, 2026 at 9:30 AM
SpaceX Dragon spacecraft docked to the International Space Station above Earth.

NASA contracted SpaceX for $843 million to develop the U.S. Deorbit Vehicle that will guide the 945,000-pound Space Station into a remote ocean corridor after the last crew returns, controlling the debris footprint

By ECONEWS
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August 21, 2026 at 6:30 AM
An IceCube mDOM sensor is lowered into a deep borehole in the Antarctic ice.

IceCube’s detector spreads 5,160 light sensors across a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice between 1,450 and 2,450 meters deep, using Earth itself as a shield to catch neutrinos arriving upward from the northern sky

By ECONEWS
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August 20, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Aerial view of solar panels installed on a former landfill in New Haven, Connecticut.

New Haven placed 1,900 solar panels on a former landfill, producing 1.4 million kilowatt-hours yearly for 200 homes and $1.5 million over 20 years, while 63 gigawatts of capacity wait across 4,312 closed sites

By Adrian Villellas
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August 20, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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