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Artist's rendition of a tokamak plasma from PPPL's study on a lower-energy path to fusion ignition

Princeton physicists reworked a 70-year-old fusion rule and calculated heating plasma first is the lowest-energy path to fusion ignition, while a trace of tungsten can roughly double the pressure

By Adrian Villellas
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October 17, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Ruins of the West House at Triangle Square in Akrotiri, Santorini, where a Bronze Age toilet survives on the upper floor

On Santorini, a Bronze Age toilet about 3,600 years old survives on the upper floor of Akrotiri’s West House, and its clay pipes once carried waste to a sewer beneath the town’s streets

By ECONEWS
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October 17, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Elephant carcass bones and dried skin on a bare patch of savanna, photographed by study lead author Courtney Reed

In South Africa’s Kruger National Park, an elephant carcass can push soil ammonium to nearly 3,000 times nearby levels, and the biodiversity coldspot it creates is still there nearly 8 years later

By ECONEWS
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October 17, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Ice flowing from the Transantarctic Mountains, where geologists link buried mountain roots to the Cambrian explosion

Around Antarctica, 1,712 zircon crystals drilled from the seafloor point to Himalayan-style mountains now buried under the ice, and two geologists say their erosion may have helped set the stage for the Cambrian explosion

By ECONEWS
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October 17, 2026 at 8:46 AM
Artist's reconstruction of the new dinosaur species Invictibellatrix amberina with prey in its jaws on an Early Cretaceous floodplain on the Isle of Wight

London’s Natural History Museum kept a skull fragment bought in 1924 in a drawer for nearly 100 years, and it turns out to be a new dinosaur species, Europe’s first known megaraptoran

By Adrian Villellas
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October 17, 2026 at 7:31 AM
Striped catfish, sold in the aquarium trade as the iridescent shark, swimming in a dark tank with its tall dorsal fin and forked tail visible

A man in Fergana, Uzbekistan, filled a basement pool with what he called Siamese sharks, and ecology inspectors found a Mekong catfish that is endangered in the wild and can reach 97 pounds

By Adrian Villellas
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October 17, 2026 at 6:31 AM
Artist's concept of NASA's SR-1 Freedom nuclear-powered spacecraft cruising past Mars with its reactor at the end of a long truss

NASA wants to send a spacecraft equipped with a nuclear reactor and three helicopters to Mars to search for underground water, while also preparing future landing sites for humans

By ECONEWS
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October 16, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Roman gold coins from the Holzthum hoard in Luxembourg laid out in a row

Two amateur archaeologists found 141 Roman gold coins in a field in Luxembourg, and beneath them, they also discovered a fortification that had been buried for more than 1,600 years

By ECONEWS
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October 16, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Loggerhead turtle tangled in a fishing buoy and line on Aldabra, Seychelles plastic pollution

The Seychelles have been receiving tons of plastic on their beaches for years, and a new study suggests that up to 66 percent of the fishing waste could come from their own waters

By Adrian Villellas
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October 16, 2026 at 5:01 PM
A Swan galaxias, a small native Tasmanian fish, held in a hand

Tasmania introduced the European trout into its rivers in 1865, and 161 years later, a small native fish survives only in the few streams that its descendants have not yet been able to reach

By ECONEWS
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October 16, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Satellite view of the February 2021 winter storm covering most of the United States, the kind of event better weather forecasts weeks ahead aim to flag

On November 20, 2025, a Harvard student predicted an extreme cold snap for December, and weeks later, it struck precisely where one of the world’s best models had failed to predict it

By Adrian Villellas
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October 16, 2026 at 1:46 PM
KiteX TWT-11 small wind turbine standing in a field in Denmark

When he was 15, he wanted to impress his mother with a kite, and that crazy idea ended up leading him to design a home turbine; what’s more, he has already sold his entire projected production for 2027

By Adrian Villellas
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October 16, 2026 at 12:31 PM
The SS United States docked in Mobile, Alabama, after remediation, before Okaloosa County sinks the liner as an artificial reef

Florida plans to sink the legendary 302-meter SS United States in November 2026 to create the world’s largest artificial reef, and the operation will cost millions of dollars

By ECONEWS
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October 16, 2026 at 11:38 AM
Artist's impression of the Hera spacecraft flying between the asteroid Didymos and its moon Dimorphos

ESA’s Hera spacecraft, flying at more than 26,800 mph, was scheduled to fire three thrusters for 93 minutes to brake toward the asteroids NASA’s DART hit in 2022, and a second burn follows October 22

By ECONEWS
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October 16, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Global seafloor map from SWOT satellite data showing ocean floor features

A UFO hunter claims to have found an alien base 10 miles below the ocean’s surface, off the coast of South Australia, but NOAA explains why those giant lines may not actually exist

By ECONEWS
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October 16, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Aerial rendering of Blackadore Caye, Leonardo DiCaprio's restorative island project off Belize, with overwater villas on a pier

Leonardo DiCaprio bought a 104-acre island in Belize for $1.75 million and wanted to turn it into an ecological paradise, but nearly two decades later, a major question remains unresolved

By Adrian Villellas
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October 16, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Cooling fans on top of enhanced geothermal power plant units at Fervo Energy's Cape Station in Beaver County, Utah

Fervo’s Cape Station in Utah began commercial operation a day early at 33 MW, a first for utility-scale enhanced geothermal plants, and its co-founder traces the idea to overheating drill motors

By Adrian Villellas
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October 16, 2026 at 7:31 AM
1857 hand-coloured lithograph of the SS Central America sinking in a hurricane off Cape Hatteras, with passengers crowding the tilted bow and survivors in the waves

In 1988, a treasure hunter discovered a ship loaded with gold that had been sunk since 1857, but he ended up spending more than 11 years behind bars over 500 coins whose whereabouts remain a mystery

By Adrian Villellas
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October 16, 2026 at 6:51 AM
Solar flares erupting from the Sun in May 2024, ahead of the next big solar storm

NOAA says the next big solar storm could reach Earth in as little as 15 to 18 hours and warns one as strong as May 2024’s G5 could cause a power blackout

By ECONEWS
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October 16, 2026 at 6:31 AM
Archaeologists record wood imprints left in travertine at Abric Romaní, the site of Neanderthal wooden tools

An excavation in Barcelona has revealed that Neanderthals not only carved stone but also made spears, bark trays, and wooden structures as far back as 62,000 years ago

By Adrian Villellas
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October 16, 2026 at 6:04 AM
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