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Climbers on a rocky cliff at Monte Conero in Italy, where fossil track marks were discovered.

Italian climbers find fossils of sea turtles that were fleeing an earthquake 80 million years ago, and the “escape” is preserved in stone like a moving scene

By ECONEWS
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May 26, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Graphene-enhanced concrete samples being tested for stronger and lower-carbon construction materials.

Graphene-infused concrete promises lighter builds with less cement, and the payoff could be longer-lasting structures with a smaller footprint

By Adrian Villellas
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May 26, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Fossilized Baby Yingliang dinosaur embryo curled inside an egg from southern China.

An unborn dinosaur is found inside its egg after 70 million years, and the fossil offers a rare look at the final moments before hatch day

By ECONEWS
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May 25, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Traditional houses and cobblestone streets in São Tomé das Letras, constructed entirely from local quartzite slabs.

A mystical Brazilian city was built on a crystal mountain at about 4,724 feet, and its century-old homes and churches challenge engineering with a secret hidden underfoot

By ECONEWS
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May 25, 2026 at 5:00 PM
A remotely operated vehicle (ROV) inspecting the sediment tracks left behind by an industrial nodule-mining collector on the abyssal seafloor.

Scientists are still hunting for hard evidence of what deep-sea mining really does, and the fear is the damage to fragile ecosystems could outpace our ability to measure it

By ECONEWS
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May 25, 2026 at 3:00 PM
A view inside the Large Hadron Collider’s tunnel, showing the 17-mile ring of superconducting magnets used for particle collisions.

With a 17-mile ring buried as deep as 574 feet under the French-Swiss border, the world’s largest particle accelerator is an underground “city” built to push physics to its limit

By ECONEWS
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May 25, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Artist illustration of a fast radio burst emitting from a magnetar within a distant, young star-forming galaxy.

A radio burst traveled 10 billion years before reaching Earth, and the newly detected FRB acts like a time capsule from the early universe

By Adrian Villellas
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May 25, 2026 at 10:15 AM
A dense mat of green macrophytes choking the surface of the Dourados River near a bridge in Lins, Brazil.

Giant aquatic plants blanket the Dourados River in Lins, block boats, and wreck docks, while 400+ inspections and about $2.7 million in fines spotlight a fast-moving water-quality crisis

By ECONEWS
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May 25, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Radar analysis of the Nyx Mons region on Venus showing the skylight and subsurface cavity of a discovered lava tube.

Astronomers claim they have found Venus’ first volcanic cave, and the idea of a natural shelter on a hellish planet forces new questions about what is happening under the surface

By Adrian Villellas
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May 25, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Prince William standing in front of the Nansledan housing development in Cornwall, part of the Duchy of Cornwall estate.

Prince William will sell one-fifth of the Duchy of Cornwall, and he says the profits will be funneled into housing and nature projects chosen for the biggest social and environmental impact

By ECONEWS
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May 24, 2026 at 6:30 PM
NASA engineer testing next-generation Mars helicopter rotor blades inside a JPL laboratory chamber.

NASA engineers build a supersonic rotor for Mars, and carbon-fiber blades at JPL are already nearing Mach 1.08 in tests that push off-world flight to the edge

By ECONEWS
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May 24, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Satellite view of Arctic sea ice and open ocean, showing the polar ice cover from above Earth.

Arctic ice melt is reshaping the polar vortex, and researchers warn the shift in this cold-air “wall” could redraw the map of extreme weather worldwide

By Adrian Villellas
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May 24, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Small gold particles visible in a water sample, illustrating trace amounts of gold found in seawater.

Scientists confirm seawater across every ocean contains gold, but the real surprise is why no one can mine it

By ECONEWS
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May 24, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Winding section of Beartooth Highway crossing a mountain valley on the route toward Yellowstone National Park.

The Beartooth Highway links Montana and Wyoming near Yellowstone, and its high-altitude stretch turns a simple drive into one of America’s most dramatic roads

By Adrian Villellas
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May 24, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Gold vein trapped inside a white quartz rock, showing a natural gold-bearing mineral formation.

Geologists say earthquakes may be “making” gold nuggets inside quartz, and the study explains how extreme pressure, fluids, and hairline fractures do the work

By ECONEWS
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May 24, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Reporter standing near cattle on Kentucky farmland connected to a proposed data center project near Maysville.

A Kentucky mother and daughter near Maysville turn down over $26 million to sell their farmland for a data center

By ECONEWS
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May 24, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Rendering of the SPARC fusion reactor inside a Commonwealth Fusion Systems assembly hall with workers nearby for scale.

Commonwealth Fusion Systems installs a 106,000-pound vessel and hits 75% completion on the SPARC reactor in Massachusetts, a milestone that speeds up America’s fusion timeline

By ECONEWS
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May 23, 2026 at 6:30 PM
False-color NASA satellite image of the Pineland Road fire near Fruitland, Georgia, showing the burned area and infrared heat signature.

NASA satellite images reveal the massive scar left by Georgia wildfires, and a mix of extreme drought, high winds, and remnants of Hurricane Helene helps explain why it shows up from space

By ECONEWS
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May 23, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Cracked medieval limestone tomb slab showing a carved knight at an archaeological site in Gdańsk, Poland.

What looked like an ice cream shop in Gdańsk, Poland, was hiding a medieval cemetery with nearly 300 graves, and the shock find includes a full skeleton beneath a 59-inch knight slab carved in the late 1200s or early 1300s

By Adrian Villellas
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May 23, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Person placing wooden objects on a large magnetic wall display, illustrating how magnetizable surfaces can hold items without drilling.

A 29-year-old industrial engineering student in Argentina created Ironplac, a magnetizable wall finish that lets you hang tools, frames, and even kitchen knives without drilling, because the wall stays passive and the magnet on the object does the work

By ECONEWS
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May 23, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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