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A digital rendering of the proposed Greensteel Australia electric induction mill at the former BHP site in Mayfield North.

Steelmaking is returning to Newcastle, but this time with renewables and no fossil gas, a historic industrial comeback for a city that never fully let go of its steel past

By ECONEWS
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July 20, 2026 at 10:15 AM
A deep-sea submersible camera captures a corroded radioactive waste barrel on the seafloor, now colonized by sponges and anemones.

About 80 years after some 200,000 radioactive barrels were dumped in the ocean, France is leading a mission to find them, an uncomfortable story that sounds like a forgotten file under the sea

By ECONEWS
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July 20, 2026 at 8:45 AM
A close-up of the concentrated solar-to-hydrogen prototype system using Fresnel lenses to focus sunlight onto high-efficiency four-layer cells.

German scientists have managed to convert up to 31.3% of sunlight directly into hydrogen, a number that puts the race for clean fuel from nothing but sun and chemistry on a whole new level

By ECONEWS
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July 19, 2026 at 6:30 PM
A 3D-printing construction system at work on a building site in regional Australia.

An agricultural town in Australia has jobs, factories, and a desire to grow, but it lacks the most basic necessity: Housing for its employees, and now it wants to solve this problem with 3D-printed homes

By ECONEWS
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July 19, 2026 at 5:00 PM
A diagram showing a home solar nanogrid where panels, batteries, and a heat pump are connected via a direct-current bus.

A new study says linking solar panels, batteries, and heat pumps with direct current could save up to 16.7% on electricity, and the trick is avoiding invisible conversions happening inside the home

By ECONEWS
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July 19, 2026 at 3:00 PM
A high-tech data center facility illuminated with cooling systems, illustrating the immense infrastructure required to power modern AI systems.

The following response from a chatbot may seem gratuitous and effortless, but the UN has just revealed its hidden side: Data centers, water, land, and electricity on a scale that spans entire countries

By Adrian Villellas
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July 19, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Prototype of the hydrogel jacket developed by University of Texas engineers, designed to capture moisture from the air and produce drinking water.

Texas engineers created a jacket capable of extracting up to 900 milliliters of drinking water per day directly from the air, an invention that sounds like science fiction for surviving a drier future

By ECONEWS
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July 19, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Workers assemble a home using structural insulated panels (SIPs), a prefabricated building system designed for faster construction and improved energy efficiency.

Homes that can be built in just one week, without cement and with the promise of saving energy: the system trying to prove that building fast does not have to mean building worse

By ECONEWS
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July 19, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Erin Brockovich speaking about the environmental impact of AI data centers and the need for greater transparency in local communities.

Erin Brockovich is once again tied to an environmental fight against a utility company, and the case inevitably recalls the battle that turned her into a symbol of citizen resistance

By Adrian Villellas
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July 19, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Land in Taylor, Texas, originally intended for a future children's park and later sold for the construction of a large AI data center.

In 1999, a farmer donated his land for a children’s park, but years later the town sold it for millions to build a data center, and the story now feels like a clash between local memory and tech fever

By Adrian Villellas
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July 18, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Petrified tree trunks preserved in Patagonia's Río Negro Province, part of three ancient forests dating back about 50 million years.

In Patagonia, researchers found three petrified forests about 50 million years old, a stunning window into an ancient landscape that was much greener, wetter, and stranger than southern Argentina today

By Adrian Villellas
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July 18, 2026 at 5:00 PM
NASA's Perseverance rover panorama showing the rocky Falbreen region on Mars with ancient terrain, rover tracks, and distant hills.

Perseverance looked at Mars again with a panorama built from dozens of images, and the result leaves a strange feeling: the Red Planet looks empty, but every rock may be saying something

By Adrian Villellas
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July 18, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Whale bones and marine life on the seafloor of the Diamantina Zone, where researchers discovered a 5.3-million-year-old whale cemetery.

A 5.3-million-year-old whale cemetery appeared 7,000 meters deep in the Indian Ocean, an almost impossible scene that seems to tell a marine tragedy from the deep past

By Adrian Villellas
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July 18, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Global view of Mars, the planet linked to the Martian meteorite NWA 8171, where scientists discovered microscopic garnet grains.

Scientists opened a tiny Martian meteorite and found a surprise inside, as if a rock from Mars were still carrying microscopic clues about the Red Planet’s history

By ECONEWS
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July 18, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Illustration of Mars showing ancient water stored beneath the surface and carbon trapped in clay minerals over billions of years.

The mystery of Mars’ missing water just got stranger: scientists think part of its ancient atmosphere and moisture may have been trapped for 3 billion years inside minerals on the Red Planet

By ECONEWS
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July 18, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Archaeological remains of the T’aqrachullo Inca citadel in Peru, a high-Andean site with hundreds of structures and thousands of artifacts.

Archaeologists discovered an Inca citadel four times larger than Machu Picchu’s urban core, with hundreds of structures and thousands of artifacts that could rewrite a huge part of the Andean map

By Adrian Villellas
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July 18, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Fossil of Austrohamia vitrea from Santa Cruz, Argentina, preserving 150-million-year-old plant tissues and cells from the Jurassic period.

In Santa Cruz, scientists found a 150-million-year-old fossil plant with such rare preservation that it seems to freeze a piece of the plant world that existed when dinosaurs ruled Earth

By Adrian Villellas
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July 17, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Underground tunnel and ancient water channels beneath Hagia Sophia in Istanbul revealed during archaeological excavation beneath the historic monument.

Beneath Hagia Sophia, a tunnel more than 160 meters long appeared alongside ancient water channels, an underground clue showing that Istanbul still keeps hidden chapters below one of its most famous monuments

By ECONEWS
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July 17, 2026 at 5:00 PM
The circular Maya structure known as Okox during excavation at El Tigre in Petén, Guatemala, showing preserved stonework and archaeological research.

At El Tigre in Petén, a unique and well-preserved circular structure has emerged: a Maya discovery with a ritual feel that reminds us how much mystery is still hidden beneath the Guatemalan jungle

By ECONEWS
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July 17, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Ancient Roman house discovered beneath Liceo Cavour's school gym in Rome, featuring decorated rooms, frescoes, and archaeological remains.

Italian teenagers followed a rumor that something was hidden beneath their school gym and ended up helping reveal a 1,800-year-old luxury Roman house near the Colosseum

By ECONEWS
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July 17, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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