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Ancient Egyptian ostracon with handwritten ink inscription on pottery fragments.

The viral story of honey tasting edible from an Egyptian tomb 3,000 years later has strong chemistry but weak documentation, with the famous jar, archaeologist, and safety test remaining elusive

By Sonia Ramírez

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August 20, 2026 at 10:25 AM

Aerial view of As Pontes lake in Galicia, Spain, created by flooding the former open-pit lignite mine.

A closed coal pit in Spain became a lake holding 547 billion liters of water over four years, with scientists documenting chemically distinct layers that show careful oversight remains crucial for ecosystem recovery

By Kevin Montien

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August 20, 2026 at 8:47 AM

Illustration of the Chicxulub asteroid striking Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula 66 million years ago.

A carbonaceous asteroid 10-15 kilometers wide struck Mexico’s Yucatán 66 million years ago at 64,000 km/h, and isotope analysis now pinpoints its origin beyond Jupiter as a rare CO-type meteorite

By Kevin Montien

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August 20, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Exposed foundations and concrete steps at the St. Thomas ghost town in Lake Mead, Nevada.

Lake Mead dropped below its previous record at 1,039.70 feet, exposing St. Thomas ruins with foundations now visible 60 feet above the waterline, marking the Colorado River system’s deepening water crisis

By Sonia Ramírez

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August 19, 2026 at 6:30 PM

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A 13-meter dolmen tomb in southern Spain preserves ivory, amber, shells, and flint from 5,000 years ago, offering context for burial customs and long-distance trade networks rather than a treasure cache

By Adrian Villellas

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August 19, 2026 at 5:30 PM

Concept rendering of Nauru’s Higher Ground Initiative to develop climate-resilient communities in the island’s interior.

Nauru’s citizenship-by-investment program raises $90,000 per applicant for climate resilience, using island relocation funding while offering passports with access to 85 destinations, no residency required

By Adrian Villellas

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August 19, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Satellite image of Hurricane Isaac approaching the Gulf Coast in August 2012.

Stanford researchers paired seismometers with infrasound microphones to capture hurricane forces near the surface, offering a new data stream for forecasting storm intensity without waiting for landfall

By Kevin Montien

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August 19, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Electra EL9 hybrid-electric aircraft shown in flight with eight electric propellers.

Electra plans a $850 million aircraft factory in Springfield, Ohio, to build nine-passenger electric planes, but whether the climate case holds depends on what trips actually get replaced

By Sonia Ramírez

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August 19, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Silver coin from Magnus Barefoot’s reign showing a griffin and cross design.

A metal detectorist found a silver coin from Magnus Barefoot’s reign, the first of its type in Norway, but it had been deliberately remade as jewelry, suggesting medieval economies shifted after coins lost value

By ECONEWS

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August 18, 2026 at 6:03 PM

Heavy machinery works on protective lava barriers as an eruption sends lava across Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula.

Beneath Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula, magma continues to accumulate 28.3 million cubic meters waiting underground while barrier work pauses and warning windows narrow to hours or less

By Sonia Ramírez

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August 18, 2026 at 3:03 PM

Aerial view of the Boswell Energy Center in Cohasset, Minnesota, where an 85-megawatt solar project is being developed.

Minnesota’s Boswell Solar project brings 177,675 panels and 85 megawatts to a coal-fired site, inheriting an old grid connection in a rare test of how infrastructure shapes renewable cost.

By Kevin Montien

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August 18, 2026 at 11:30 AM

Illustration of near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 passing through space near Earth.

NASA ruled out the asteroid that once had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and the reason those odds moved so sharply is not what it seems

By Adrian Villellas

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August 18, 2026 at 7:21 AM

Antarctic tourists and expedition staff near a penguin colony during a shore landing.

Twenty-five Antarctic guides gave up the job they loved as visitor numbers passed 113,000 in a single season, and the question that pushed them out has no comfortable answer

By Kevin Montien

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August 17, 2026 at 6:11 PM

Aerial view of archaeological cropmarks revealed across a drought-parched field in Wales.

The drought burned Welsh fields brown and turned them into an X-ray, showing a 5,000-year-old burial mound, a Roman fort and First World War trenches that no one had recorded

By ECONEWS

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August 17, 2026 at 2:08 PM

Close-up of an Aedes aegypti mosquito, the species tested for susceptibility to alpha-cypermethrin.

A laboratory dose of insecticide killed 97.91% of the mosquitoes that spread dengue, and the tiny fraction that survived is what has researchers in Delhi worried

By Sonia Ramírez

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August 17, 2026 at 10:15 AM

Hydrothermal formations at the Lost City field deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean.

Scientists drilled 4,160 feet into the Atlantic seafloor and found water with a chemical fingerprint of 572°F heating, a clue to how Lost City’s rare alkaline vents survive

By Kevin Montien

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August 17, 2026 at 6:35 AM

Cindy Mora and her son Fabrizio outside their recycled-plastic block house in Costa Rica.

A Costa Rican mother saved for nine years to buy land, and 850 blocks of recycled plastic became the walls of the house 800 volunteers are wrongly credited with building

By Adrian Villellas

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August 16, 2026 at 6:30 PM

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The viral story of honey tasting edible from an Egyptian tomb 3,000 years later has strong chemistry but weak documentation, with the famous jar, archaeologist, and safety test remaining elusive

A closed coal pit in Spain became a lake holding 547 billion liters of water over four years, with scientists documenting chemically distinct layers that show careful oversight remains crucial for ecosystem recovery

A carbonaceous asteroid 10-15 kilometers wide struck Mexico’s Yucatán 66 million years ago at 64,000 km/h, and isotope analysis now pinpoints its origin beyond Jupiter as a rare CO-type meteorite

Lake Mead dropped below its previous record at 1,039.70 feet, exposing St. Thomas ruins with foundations now visible 60 feet above the waterline, marking the Colorado River system’s deepening water crisis

A 13-meter dolmen tomb in southern Spain preserves ivory, amber, shells, and flint from 5,000 years ago, offering context for burial customs and long-distance trade networks rather than a treasure cache

Nauru’s citizenship-by-investment program raises $90,000 per applicant for climate resilience, using island relocation funding while offering passports with access to 85 destinations, no residency required

Stanford researchers paired seismometers with infrasound microphones to capture hurricane forces near the surface, offering a new data stream for forecasting storm intensity without waiting for landfall

Electra plans a $850 million aircraft factory in Springfield, Ohio, to build nine-passenger electric planes, but whether the climate case holds depends on what trips actually get replaced

A metal detectorist found a silver coin from Magnus Barefoot’s reign, the first of its type in Norway, but it had been deliberately remade as jewelry, suggesting medieval economies shifted after coins lost value

Beneath Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula, magma continues to accumulate 28.3 million cubic meters waiting underground while barrier work pauses and warning windows narrow to hours or less

Minnesota’s Boswell Solar project brings 177,675 panels and 85 megawatts to a coal-fired site, inheriting an old grid connection in a rare test of how infrastructure shapes renewable cost.

NASA ruled out the asteroid that once had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and the reason those odds moved so sharply is not what it seems

Twenty-five Antarctic guides gave up the job they loved as visitor numbers passed 113,000 in a single season, and the question that pushed them out has no comfortable answer

The drought burned Welsh fields brown and turned them into an X-ray, showing a 5,000-year-old burial mound, a Roman fort and First World War trenches that no one had recorded

A laboratory dose of insecticide killed 97.91% of the mosquitoes that spread dengue, and the tiny fraction that survived is what has researchers in Delhi worried

Scientists drilled 4,160 feet into the Atlantic seafloor and found water with a chemical fingerprint of 572°F heating, a clue to how Lost City’s rare alkaline vents survive

A Costa Rican mother saved for nine years to buy land, and 850 blocks of recycled plastic became the walls of the house 800 volunteers are wrongly credited with building

A handwritten note reading “Cap Wildy lost” led divers to a 1680 shipwreck, and the recovered objects are finally becoming public history

Engineers drove enormous steel foundations directly into bare Atlantic sand to hold offshore wind turbines upright, and what happens around those artificial structures afterward is changing the seabed in ways nobody designed them for

NASA’s Dragonfly is being built to fly on Titan, where thick air and weak gravity could make a truck-sized robot easier to lift

A new diabetes pill lowered blood sugar and body weight more than oral semaglutide, but the convenience came with a harder trade-off

A Tennessee solar farm is letting cows graze beneath moving panels, and the experiment could change what happens to farmland under clean energy

Engineers lowered a giant steel structure into the water off the Florida Keys where it will deliberately remain on the seabed, but what looks like abandoned industrial hardware is designed to become something alive

Scientists spent years testing a phenomenon researchers thought they understood, but the results revealed an unexpected mechanism hiding underneath and raised new questions about how the system actually works

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