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European eels stranded in a drying riverbed near Valencia as drought leaves shallow, isolated pools

2,000 eels that had traveled 4,350 miles from the Sargasso Sea died at 98.6 °F… just 11 miles from Valencia because the river had turned into a puddle and no one lifted a finger

By ECONEWS
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April 17, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Bed bug near a damp surface avoiding contact with water

Bed bugs fear something very common in the home, and science has just discovered that water makes them flee at full speed

By ECONEWS
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April 17, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Person walking alone in nature reflecting on life after retirement

I retired with more money than I ever imagined I’d have, but I discovered that what disorients a person most isn’t stopping work, but waking up to a life in which no one seems to need anything from her anymore

By Adrian Villellas
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April 17, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Wolf swimming across Lake Lucerne in Switzerland during tracked migration

A GPS-collared wolf swam about 1.5 km across Lake Lucerne in Switzerland, the first confirmed case

By ECONEWS
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April 17, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Child playing alone outdoors showing independence and self directed activity

Psychology asserts that children of the 1960s and 1970s did not become emotionally strong thanks to better parenting, but because they grew up with enough daily neglect to learn to self-regulate, solve problems on their own, and develop a resilience that modern comforts make difficult to build

By ECONEWS
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April 17, 2026 at 7:54 AM
Self checkout screen at Target showing barcode scanning during retail transaction

Florida man accused of using taco seasoning barcodes at Target self-checkout to take $40,000 in trading cards

By ECONEWS
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April 17, 2026 at 6:35 AM
Older woman preparing homemade food at a table, reflecting the unseen work behind long-running family traditions.

Psychology suggests that those who uphold long-standing family traditions for decades aren’t always “happy to do so”; often, they’ve turned the planning, the cooking, and the emotional management into a silent way of earning a place they fear losing if they stop shouldering the burden

By ECONEWS
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April 17, 2026 at 5:24 AM
Close-up of mosquitoes feeding on human skin, illustrating why some people attract more bites than others

Mosquitoes are drawn by exhaled CO2 and clothing contrast, not “sweet blood”, a Georgia Tech and MIT study shows

By Adrian Villellas
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April 17, 2026 at 4:32 AM
Two tricahue parrots near a cactus, one perched and one landing in flight, a scene linked to the birds’ return to Río Clarillo National Park.

After a 15-year absence, nests of tricahue parrots have reappeared in Río Clarillo, and the discovery confirms that a return that seemed impossible is already underway

By ECONEWS
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April 16, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Radar view of Venus showing rugged volcanic terrain near Nyx Mons, the region linked to a newly studied underground void.

What appeared to be an old, forgotten file from the Magellan probe, launched in 1990, has turned out to reveal one of the strangest discoveries about Venus: an empty underground tunnel approximately 1 kilometer wide

By ECONEWS
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April 16, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Still image of a sleeper shark swimming in deep Antarctic waters near the South Shetland Islands, captured by a baited seafloor camera.

For the first time in history, a shark has been filmed in Antarctic waters, and the scene raises a disturbing question about what is changing at the southernmost tip of the planet

By ECONEWS
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April 16, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Close-up of a jaguar resting with its head on its paw, an image tied to Bolivia’s plan to return rehabilitated jaguar Yaguara to the wild.

Bolivia prepares to release Yaguara, its first rehabilitated jaguar, into the wild

By Adrian Villellas
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April 16, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Man demonstrating magnetic cement wall holding tools and objects using magnets without drilling

Ironplac, the magnetic cement by Argentine inventor Marco Agustín Secchi that lets walls hold objects without nails

By ECONEWS
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April 16, 2026 at 10:15 AM
View from the International Space Station showing the Milky Way above Earth’s glowing green and purple aurora along the horizon.

A NASA astronaut points his camera from the Space Station and turns in-orbit experiments into images so strange they look like art from another world

By ECONEWS
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April 16, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Floating Sargassum seaweed in the Sargasso Sea, surrounded by calm Atlantic waters shaped by ocean currents

There is a single sea on Earth that has no shores, and its strange boundary is not defined by land, but by the currents of the Atlantic

By ECONEWS
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April 16, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Open-pit mining site in Sichuan, China, linked to a major rare earth discovery with environmental implications

China’s Ministry of Natural Resources has announced an additional 10.7 million metric tons of rare earth oxides, reigniting the “neodymium rush” that will determine how many electric cars and drones the world will be able to produce over the next 20 years

By ECONEWS
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April 16, 2026 at 5:35 AM
Illustration of Sue the Tyrannosaurus rex, the famous Field Museum specimen used in research on how T. rex may have moved with a toe-first step.

They reexamined the world’s largest T. rex skeleton and discovered something that forces us to rethink the true life of prehistory’s most feared predator

By Adrian Villellas
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April 15, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Scientists examine the Maryborough meteorite at Melbourne Museum after confirming the heavy stone found in Australia was a meteorite.

He thought he had struck gold in Australia, but for years he had held something far more improbable in his hands: a fragment of the solar system that predates our planet

By Adrian Villellas
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April 15, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Giant tortoise on Floreana Island in the Galápagos during a conservation effort to restore the native ecosystem.

Extinct for more than 150 years, 158 giant tortoises are returning to Floreana, and their return could revitalize an ecosystem that has been quietly deteriorating for generations

By ECONEWS
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April 15, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Side-by-side view of WOH G64 showing a blurred central star and a larger illustration of the massive star surrounded by a thick cocoon of gas and dust.

WOH G64, one of the largest known stars, may be turning into a yellow hypergiant, astronomers say

By ECONEWS
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April 15, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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