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Artist's illustration of a supermassive black hole surrounded by glowing gas, used to explain echo mapping and the search for dark matter.

It all began with a strange echo around 14 giant black holes; scientists now believe it could indicate massive concentrations of dark matter, the mysterious component that makes up 27% of the universe

By Adrian Villellas
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July 2, 2026 at 5:00 PM
The Spanish research vessel Odón de Buen sails during the MORIA 2 expedition to study Mediterranean Outflow Water and its influence on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC).

It all began with an extremely salty current flowing every day from the Mediterranean; now, a ship is traversing the ocean to investigate the Atlantic’s great climate engine

By ECONEWS
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July 2, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Mary, the escaped Tasmanian devil, after being found alive following 15 days in bushland near Paradise Country on Australia's Gold Coast.

A camera captured Mary, a two-year-old Tasmanian devil, roaming the park at 4 a.m. She had escaped with an “unusually large” leap and survived for 15 days amid residential neighborhoods, thickets, cars, and real dangers

By ECONEWS
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July 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Illustration of the Milky Way's motion toward the Great Attractor, a massive gravitational region located about 150 to 250 million light-years away.

Our galaxy isn’t stationary but hurtling at full speed toward a hidden gravitational anomaly located between 150 and 250 million light-years away

By ECONEWS
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July 2, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Researchers use MIT's machine-learning method to analyze atomic motifs in metal alloys, improving materials discovery for advanced engineering applications.

MIT’s new method promises to speed up the search for alloys for rockets, chips, and clean energy by analyzing invisible “neighborhoods” between atoms

By ECONEWS
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July 2, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Seismic activity visualization illustrating small earthquakes detected before the magnitude 8.8 Kamchatka earthquake using waveform cross-correlation analysis.

It all began with dozens of small earthquakes that no one detected; now, a 64-page study suggests that they may have been a precursor to the massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck nine days earlier

By Adrian Villellas
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July 2, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Clean globe visualization showing a band of unusually warm water across the equatorial Pacific linked to El Niño.

The enormous mass of warm water in the Pacific that has just “woken up” and could influence storms, wildfires, monsoons, and temperatures through 2027

By Adrian Villellas
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July 1, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Anopheles mosquito feeding on human skin, the malaria-carrying insect targeted in sterile male release research.

Science discovers the “point of no return” for mosquitoes: the mathematical trick that could forever change the fight against malaria

By ECONEWS
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July 1, 2026 at 6:30 PM
MIT DAAAM robot memory system identifying bicycles and describing objects inside a mapped environment.

Scientists at MIT have created a robot with an “elephant’s memory” that promises to tell you where you left your keys last night—and it does so in a matter of seconds

By ECONEWS
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July 1, 2026 at 3:00 PM
satellite-storm-system-flash-flood-warning-ai

NASA is developing and testing an artificial intelligence system that identifies 93% of the signs of a flash flood and could provide crucial time to respond

By ECONEWS
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July 1, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Green aurora australis glowing above Earth as the International Space Station passes over the planet at night.

A NASA astronaut filmed the southern lights swirling like neon paint, turning orbital night into a free light show

By Adrian Villellas
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July 1, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Ants swarm potato chip crumbs on sandy ground, illustrating how junk food scraps can distract ants from moving seeds.

A few cookie crumbs on a trail may seem insignificant, but a new study conducted in Panama suggests that they can distract ants from a task that is key to a plant’s expansion

By ECONEWS
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July 1, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Macro close-up of a cockroach facing the camera, used to illustrate research on bacterial DNA fragments embedded in cockroach genomes.

Cockroaches already seemed indestructible, but a new genomic study has just revealed something even stranger: they harbor thousands of fragments of bacterial DNA hidden within their own genome

By Adrian Villellas
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July 1, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Cozumel dwarf fox resting on pale limestone ground in Cozumel, Mexico, in the first confirmed modern photograph of the rare canid.

An animal about the size of a small house cat has just caused quite a stir in Mexico after becoming the first known photographic evidence of the mysterious Cozumel dwarf fox

By Adrian Villellas
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July 1, 2026 at 4:24 AM
Wide coastal view of Giant’s Causeway with hexagonal basalt stones, tide pools, and Atlantic waves in Northern Ireland.

The Giants’ Causeway was not formed as a result of a battle between giants, but rather by an explosive volcanic event that took place 60 million years ago—an event that, as scientists have now determined, occurred over a shorter period of time

By ECONEWS
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June 30, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Aerial view of farmland and wooded rural land in Georgia at sunset.

Georgia has just created a $2 million fund to save farms before these centuries-old fields are turned into housing developments, warehouses, and data centers

By ECONEWS
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June 30, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Large rooftop and ground-mounted solar panels at a residential property in Puerto Rico, with workers on site.

Puerto Rico had a $1 billion federal fund to install solar panels and batteries in vulnerable households, but now much of that money is being diverted to the old power grid

By ECONEWS
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June 30, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Wide view of red-rock canyons and desert cliffs in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah.

Everything pointed to another cut, but Grand Staircase-Escalante has just narrowly avoided, at the last minute, a decision that would have forever changed one of the most impressive natural monuments in the United States

By ECONEWS
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June 30, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Side-by-side satellite comparison of San Carlos Reservoir in Arizona, showing much higher water levels in June 2023 and severe shrinkage by May 2026.

NASA photos reveal San Carlos Reservoir shrinking to a mud-ring, visual proof that drought plus demand equals trouble

By Adrian Villellas
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June 30, 2026 at 12:30 PM
People walk through a flooded neighborhood street after intense rainfall.

Sponge-city tech is teaching concrete to drink stormwater like a thirsty park — and it can’t happen fast enough

By ECONEWS
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June 30, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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