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Marion 8750 electric dragline excavator working at Estevan Mine in Saskatchewan with its massive boom and bucket

One of the world’s biggest excavators has a projected 60-year lifespan, and the twist is the scale: about 16.5 million pounds, a boom roughly 427 feet long, and 19 electric motors pushing nearly 19,830 horsepower

By ECONEWS
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June 15, 2026 at 6:10 AM
An archival photo of a small four-inch telescope housed in a modest wooden shed, which was used to detect the transit of an exoplanet.

A 25-year-old astronomer used a 4-inch telescope in a wooden shed to spot a signal that helped open the door to discovering thousands of planets

By Sonia Ramírez
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June 14, 2026 at 6:30 PM
A side-by-side comparison showing the Earth's equatorial bulge and how Chimborazo's proximity to the equator makes its summit farther from the Earth's center than Everest's.

Mount Everest is the highest above sea level, but Ecuador’s Chimborazo sits farther from Earth’s center, making it the planet’s true “closest point to space”

By ECONEWS
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June 14, 2026 at 5:00 PM
A lidar-generated 3D map revealing the outlines of ancient stone pyramids and plazas hidden beneath the dense jungle canopy.

An archaeology student “found” a lost Maya city with a simple Google search, and the discovery shows how modern tools can crack ancient mysteries

By Adrian Villellas
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June 14, 2026 at 3:00 PM
A view of the Sun as seen from space, appearing as a brilliant, pure white sphere against the black background.

The Sun may look yellow from Earth, but seen from space it’s actually white, and our atmosphere is what tints it with that familiar color

By Sonia Ramírez
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June 14, 2026 at 12:30 PM
A person narrating their thoughts aloud while organizing daily tasks, demonstrating the brain's use of self-talk for planning and focus.

Psychology says talking to yourself when you’re alone isn’t a sign of loneliness, it’s one of the brain’s most effective tools for regulating emotion and rehearsing decisions

By ECONEWS
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June 14, 2026 at 10:15 AM
A close-up of a residential wall-mounted HVAC air vent, demonstrating the airflow that is restricted when these registers are closed.

Closing vents in unused rooms sounds smart, but HVAC experts warn it can raise pressure, waste energy, and even damage your system over time

By Adrian Villellas
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June 14, 2026 at 8:45 AM
A small San Joaquin kit fox resting in the shade beneath solar panels at a managed utility-scale solar farm.

Foxes moved into a solar farm and turned it into a natural habitat, as the panels created shade, shelter, and a surprising new ecosystem

By Sonia Ramírez
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June 14, 2026 at 6:30 AM
A simple, steaming cup of black coffee sitting on a minimalist desk, representing a preference for unfiltered experiences.

Psychology claims people who always drink their coffee black aren’t just purists, and what’s interesting is how that preference can line up with a need for unfiltered reality far beyond the mug

By ECONEWS
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June 13, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Portrait of Alessandro Volta next to a diagram of his voltaic pile, the invention that pioneered modern electrical measurement.

Italy has spent nearly 200 years calling the volt a name derived from an Italian scientist’s name. Now, it wants the world to give back the letter English erased, and the strange part is that the fight over credit is hiding inside a unit everyone uses

By Adrian Villellas
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June 13, 2026 at 5:00 PM
A homemade plastic bottle trap hanging near the Guadalope River, designed to capture invasive Asian hornet queens.

A recycled bottle is being used in Aragón as a trap for Asian hornets, and what is surprising is how the simplest setup can be the most effective once the invasion is established

By Sonia Ramírez
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June 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM
A landscape comparison showing a dense native forest in Galicia alongside a nearby eucalyptus monoculture plantation.

Spain planted an invasive tree in 1960 thinking it was a great idea, and what’s worrying is how it’s now hammering local birdlife because the ecosystem can’t keep up

By Sonia Ramírez
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June 13, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Construction work on Mexico’s Interoceanic Corridor rail line across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec

Mexico pulls a “land-based Panama Canal” out of its hat: 303 km across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec to connect the Pacific and the Gulf without passing through locks

By Sonia Ramírez
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June 13, 2026 at 12:25 PM
The George Washington Carver Center in Beltsville, Maryland, where USDA APHIS employees are dealing with a recurring bed bug infestation.

The federal agency fighting bed bugs keeps getting infested in its own building, and what is absurd is that workers still are not allowed to telecommute

By Sonia Ramírez
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June 13, 2026 at 10:35 AM
Close-up of smooth, rounded desert sand grains compared to rough, angular construction sand used in concrete manufacturing.

Saudi Arabia imports sand even though it’s a desert country, but desert sand is too smooth and rounded to make strong concrete

By ECONEWS
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June 13, 2026 at 8:45 AM
The NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center facility, which remains under the management of UCAR following a federal judge's ruling.

A judge blocked part of a Trump administration move aimed at hurting a Colorado research center, and what’s striking is how fast science funding turns into a courtroom fight

By Adrian Villellas
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June 13, 2026 at 6:30 AM
ExxonMobil office building facade showing company logo as firm shifts legal home to Texas

ExxonMobil is leaving New Jersey as its legal home after more than 140 years, and what matters isn’t the new address but what it signals about taxes, headquarters power, and corporate strategy

By ECONEWS
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June 12, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Underwater data center module off Shanghai connected to offshore wind turbines and subsea cables powering AI infrastructure

China just put $226 million into an undersea data center near Shanghai, and the detail that matters is that ocean cooling and clean power are being used to cut land and water use as AI demand explodes

By Kevin Montien
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June 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Smooth-coated otter walking along a riverbank captured by camera trap in India

Camera traps just captured a smooth-coated otter in that area for the first time, and what stands out is that it showed up where almost nobody was looking because the focus was on something else

By Adrian Villellas
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June 12, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Freight train crossing the Isthmus of Tehuantepec as part of Mexico’s dry canal project

A Latin American country is moving massive amounts of earth to build a “dry canal” route pitched as bigger than the Panama Canal, and what’s bold is that it’s trying to reroute global trade without digging a single lock

By Sonia Ramírez
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June 12, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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