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Coyote walking through deep snow in a winter landscape in northern Canada.

A photographer waited four years to capture a coyote frozen midair over ice, and the split-second shot looks like it breaks physics

By ECONEWS
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June 15, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Grey seal pup resting among beach debris, highlighted with a circle to show how it was hidden in plain sight.

A beachgoer calls for help after spotting a wild animal sleeping on a pile of trash, and the rescue reveals how closely wildlife and human waste now collide

By ECONEWS
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June 15, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Divers search the sandy seabed off Sardinia with an inset showing a late Roman bronze coin from the underwater hoard.

A diver finds a hidden stash of coins underwater, and what looked like debris becomes the treasure find of a lifetime

By ECONEWS
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June 15, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Workers install a steel test tunnel in an excavated trench at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for underground acoustic detection research.

Underground acoustic signals can expose hidden tunnels beneath U.S. roads and railways, turning vibrations into a new kind of subsurface X-ray

By Adrian Villellas
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June 15, 2026 at 6:30 AM
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 ECONEWS
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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 ECONEWS
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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.

Talking to yourself when you are alone is not a sign of loneliness: psychology links it to managing emotions and decisions

By ECONEWS
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June 14, 2026 at 10:15 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 ECONEWS
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June 14, 2026 at 6:30 AM
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 ECONEWS
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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 ECONEWS
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June 13, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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
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 opens a wind-powered underwater data center off Shanghai, cooled by seawater

By ECONEWS
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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 ECONEWS
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June 12, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Basalt quarry with exposed volcanic rock layers and excavator, showing material proposed as a low-carbon alternative for cement production.

Cement’s carbon problem may have a blunt fix, swap limestone for basalt, because modeling suggests energy demand could drop by more than 40% and emissions by over 80%, cutting CO2 from about 1,343 lb per ton of cement to roughly 110 lb with certain rock types

By ECONEWS
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June 12, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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