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A new missile using storable liquid fuel could reshape hypersonic defense by simplifying logistics and reducing handling risks

There is already a flight-tested hypersonic missile that, for the first time, runs on storable liquid fuel, and that small technical detail could mean a major shift in defense

By ECONEWS
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April 28, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Bald eagle Shadow midair with talons raised defending nest from intruding bird at Big Bear

On March 16, Shadow starred in one of the season’s most brutal moments when he spun through the air to defend the eggs in the Big Bear nest from an unexpected intruder

By ECONEWS
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April 28, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Car key fob wrapped in aluminum foil to block wireless signals and prevent relay theft attacks

Why some drivers wrap car keys in aluminum foil: it can block relay attacks used to steal keyless cars

By Adrian Villellas
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April 28, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Pocket gopher digging in volcanic soil at Mount St. Helens, linked to long-term ecosystem recovery after the 1980 eruption

Forty-three years ago, a few ground squirrels were released into the area devastated by the eruption of Mount St. Helens, and now scientists believe they were the unexpected heroes of the ecosystem’s recovery

By Adrian Villellas
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April 28, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Snake with red, yellow, and black underside coiled on a log, illustrating snake cannibalism research

From the United States to Australia, via Brazil and India: a world map showing the places where snakes have been observed devouring members of their own species

By ECONEWS
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April 28, 2026 at 4:39 AM
Ediacaran fossils preserved in rock at Mistaken Point in Newfoundland, linked to research on Earth’s first major animal extinction.

Earth’s first major extinction event was worse than we thought and may have wiped out nearly 80% of species 550 million years ago

By ECONEWS
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April 27, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Prehistoric pottery vessel with burnt food residue inside, linked to a study on ancient European cuisine.

Food crusts on 5,000- to 8,000-year-old pottery show prehistoric Europeans cooked plants as well as fish

By ECONEWS
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April 27, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Illustration of Comet C/2025 K1 ATLAS passing through the inner solar system, with an inset showing its fragmented nucleus.

Hubble captured a comet breaking apart in real time purely by chance, and the odds of seeing it happen at that exact moment were remarkably low

By Adrian Villellas
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April 27, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Ancient Pueblo bow-and-arrow artifacts showing early hunting technology in the North American Southwest.

Researchers have analyzed 136 weapons using carbon-14 dating and have been able to pinpoint exactly when the bow-and-arrow era began in North America

By ECONEWS
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April 27, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Hand holding rice husks after harvest

They heated them to 900°C (1,652°F) for 8 hours, and something unexpected happened: the rice husks and palm fronds barely formed the dreaded “rocks” that clog boilers… and Colombia might have a more reliable rural fuel than we thought

By ECONEWS
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April 27, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Close-up of a Xiphactinus audax fossil skull and teeth from the Smithsonian collection.

They found a giant tooth embedded in the neck of a plesiosaur, and the “culprit” was not a marine reptile, but a massive predatory fish

By Adrian Villellas
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April 27, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Underwater view of ocean currents and suspended particles, representing changing sea conditions linked to El Niño patterns

El Niño 2026 forecast: NOAA gives a 61% chance it emerges between May and July

By ECONEWS
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April 27, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Scientist examining plants and chemicals in a lab during research on pesticide exposure and environmental health

A pesticide that has been in use for decades may be causing wild fish to age from the inside out, even at doses so low that they do not kill the fish immediately

By Adrian Villellas
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April 27, 2026 at 3:54 AM
Underwater view of tethered industrial devices, representing advanced engineering systems similar to experimental energy infrastructure

The United States has never built anything like this before: now a startup wants to bury a small nuclear reactor 6,000 feet underground, with a target date of July 2026

By ECONEWS
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April 26, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Lightning flashes over trees during a thunderstorm, illustrating research on ultraviolet corona discharges in forest canopies

What they observed over the course of 90 minutes in the branches of a tree in the midst of a storm seems straight out of a science-fiction novel: 41 ultraviolet flashes invisible to the human eye and a major unanswered mystery

By ECONEWS
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April 26, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Astronaut view of the Richat Structure, or Eye of the Sahara, showing concentric rings in the Mauritanian desert

NASA observes the Sahara from the International Space Station and detects a gigantic eye nearly 50 kilometers wide, whose origin is not as cosmic as it seems

By ECONEWS
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April 26, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Massive stone block from the Lighthouse of Alexandria being lifted from the sea during the PHAROS archaeology project

Twenty-two giant blocks from the legendary Lighthouse of Alexandria have been recovered from the seabed, and this discovery is rewriting the history of one of the world’s most famous wonders

By ECONEWS
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April 26, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Kemp’s ridley sea turtles moving across the sand on Padre Island National Seashore.

No one understood what that strange green creature was that washed up on a Texas beach on March 7, until they discovered it was one of the rarest turtles in the world

By ECONEWS
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April 26, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Artist’s illustration of two young planets colliding and producing a large cloud of dust around a distant star

Astronomers have detected, for the first time and in real time, a violent collision between two young planets located 11,000 light-years away

By ECONEWS
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April 26, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Fiddler crabs in Colombian mangroves where researchers found high microplastic accumulation

A study published on December 17, 2025, on mangroves in the Colombian Caribbean reveals that small crabs measuring just 1.2 inches can accumulate up to 13 times more microplastics than the mud and convert some of them into nanoplastics

By ECONEWS
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April 26, 2026 at 6:18 AM
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