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Tetra Pak cartons stapled into shiny panels lining two walls of a test corner under a corrugated metal roof

At a fire lab at Brazil’s Unisinos University, Tetra Pak carton strips carried flames nearly 6 inches in 14 seconds, and the 17.6°F they took off a test roof’s surface shrank indoors

By ECONEWS
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October 20, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Green swirl of a phytoplankton bloom in the Gulf of Finland, Baltic Sea, seen by Landsat 8 on July 18, 2018

In the Baltic Sea off Sweden’s Gotland, the 2018 heat wave pushed surface water to about 81 degrees Fahrenheit on August 1, and on some July days southern Scandinavia was hotter than parts of Spain

By Adrian Villellas
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October 20, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Two NASA astronauts in spacesuits sit in the Pegasus lunar terrain vehicles prototype at Johnson Space Center

NASA released footage of astronauts testing Lunar Outpost’s Pegasus as robotic rovers and lunar terrain vehicles get ready to scout the Moon’s South Pole, and each LTV will cover up to 3.7 miles a day

By Adrian Villellas
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October 20, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Thermal camera of the type used to record seabird collisions, mounted on an offshore wind turbine with turbines behind it

Off England’s Kent coast, a 2018 study reviewed 606,554 videos from cameras on Thanet Offshore Wind Farm turbines and counted 6 seabird collisions, and 96.8 percent of recorded seabirds flew between the turbine rows

By ECONEWS
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October 20, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Lowland tapirs reintroduced at the Guapiaçu Ecological Reserve: a tapir looks out from forest undergrowth beside a wire fence in Rio de Janeiro state

In Brazil’s Guapiaçu Ecological Reserve, a restoration project rooted in one family’s old farm has planted 1 million native seedlings, and lowland tapirs missing from Rio de Janeiro since 1914 now number around 25

By Adrian Villellas
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October 20, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Mount Roraima rising above the Gran Sabana grasslands of Venezuela, its flat summit and sheer walls seen from the route that leads to it from Paraitepui

On Mount Roraima, where Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana meet, Pemón storytellers told an ethnologist in 1911 it was the stump of a tree bearing every fruit, and Brazil’s 2026 park plan names that tree

By ECONEWS
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October 20, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Drone view of the 2026 excavation of the Gallic mint at Corent, France, with stone foundations and diggers at work

On the Corent plateau in central France, archaeologists uncovered a Gallic mint of 5 or 6 workshops stretching more than 131 feet, and a lead disk carrying 2 coin-punch impressions matches a known Arverni stater

By ECONEWS
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October 20, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Curiosity rover MAHLI close-up of a broad, shallow pit in Martian bedrock in Gale Crater, about 0.39 inches across

In Mars’ Gale Crater, NASA’s Curiosity rover photographed unusually broad, shallow pits in bedrock, one roughly 0.4 inches across, and the mission’s September 3 update still could not explain how they formed

By Adrian Villellas
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October 20, 2026 at 8:46 AM
May Nyman and Doctor Stephen, co-authors of the zirconium and hafnium separation study, look at a computer screen at Oregon State University

In Corvallis, Oregon, chemists separated zirconium and hafnium in water with choline, a common food additive, reaching a separation factor of 33, and the solvent method used at two U.S. plants scores 6 to 7

By ECONEWS
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October 20, 2026 at 7:32 AM
Masahiro Hara, the DENSO WAVE engineer who created the QR code in 1994

At Japan’s car parts shipping sites, workers read about 10 barcodes per product until DENSO’s Masahiro Hara created the QR code in 1994, and it now tracks glass eels for an expected 10,000 traders a year

By Adrian Villellas
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October 20, 2026 at 6:31 AM
Clay robber frog near Brazil's Boracéia Biological Station, where museum frogs revealed the chytrid fungus behind a decades-old die-off

Smithsonian scientists swabbed 327 museum frogs and tied a mysterious die-off in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest to the chytrid fungus, but the declined species still common enough to collect tested clean

By ECONEWS
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October 19, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Sceye's ST1 stratospheric airship rising beside its hangar in New Mexico at the start of the flight to Japan

New Mexico’s Sceye flew a solar-powered stratospheric airship about 18,600 miles to Japan and back in about a month and used it to beam calls and video to ordinary smartphones from more than 54,000 feet

By Adrian Villellas
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October 19, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Beaver dam of sticks holding back a pond on the former Pine Grove Massachusetts golf course in Northampton

Crews on a closed Massachusetts golf course in Northampton pulled out a failed culvert and installed human-built beaver dams, and the city now has $2.8 million to finish rewilding the site

By Adrian Villellas
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October 19, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman speaks at the podium of the IAEA General Conference in Vienna

Saudi Arabia told the IAEA it has about 114 million metric tons of uranium-bearing ore near Medina, and the figure that matters most for its nuclear plans, the uranium grade, has not been released

By ECONEWS
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October 19, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Bigfin squid with long thread-like filaments hovering above the seafloor near Davidson Seamount off California

MBARI scientists surveying an ancient undersea volcano off California filmed a bigfin squid 10,751 feet down, the first live sighting in the northeastern Pacific, and only about 70 are on record

By Adrian Villellas
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October 19, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Murujuga ranger Malik Churnside, dive instructor Hiro Yoshida and PhD candidate Louise Brooke in dive gear on a boat, part of the team that found underwater stone tools

Aboriginal ranger-divers and archaeologists found underwater stone tools at a Western Australian spring drowned at least 9,000 years ago, and nearly half came from rock about 14 miles away

By Adrian Villellas
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October 19, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Hundreds of hats pulled from Yellowstone hot springs and thermal areas in 2026 laid out in front of a National Park Service pickup truck

Yellowstone hot springs, geysers and boardwalks gave up more than 20,100 pieces of trash, 5,600 rocks and sticks and over 280 hats by early September, including six Invisalign retainers and a single Uno card

By ECONEWS
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October 19, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Pale, finger-like stromata of the giant fungus D-rex (Dianjunus rex) attached to the roots of a dead host tree in a Yunnan forest

In China’s Yunnan Province, scientists found a giant fungus nicknamed D-rex that grows up to 20 inches tall, and its family likely arose about 65 million years ago, as the dinosaurs died out

By ECONEWS
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October 19, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Four Asiatic wild asses drinking side by side at a waterhole in Israel's Negev desert

Israel released 28 Asiatic wild asses into the Negev from 1982 to 1987, and DNA from their dung now shows a herd eating native plants and inbreeding less after managers added three water points

By Adrian Villellas
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October 19, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Aerial view of the 5,000-year-old artificial island in Loch Bhorgastail, with its submerged causeway and the excavation grid

An islet in Scotland’s Loch Bhorgastail is a 5,000-year-old artificial island built on a 75-foot timber platform, and hundreds of Neolithic potsherds, some holding food residue, lay around it

By ECONEWS
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October 19, 2026 at 8:46 AM
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