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The restored church pulpit in Ciachcin, Poland, and the 1884 parchment found inside it

Conservators restoring a church pulpit in Ciachcin, Poland, found a parchment the parish priest hid inside it in 1884, and it names the gilders, carpenters and apprentices history usually forgets

By Adrian Villellas
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October 13, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Plasticoral fragment at the bottom of a beach bonfire on Sosu Beach, Okinawa

Okinawa researchers found plastic fused to coral rubble in five pieces from three beaches, and the melted polymers had seeped into the coral’s pores so completely that the team named a new pollutant, plasticoral

By ECONEWS
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October 13, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Facade of Dragomirna Monastery in Romania

Dragomirna Monastery in Romania has a Greek decree over 2,000 years old set into its porch floor honoring an architect from Byzantion, and scholars have long argued over which Black Sea city issued it

By Adrian Villellas
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October 13, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Container ship Tangier Maersk docked at the Port of Mobile in Alabama

Maersk fueled the 9,016-TEU Tangier Maersk with 100 percent corn ethanol in America’s first ethanol bunkering of a deep-sea container ship, as a national lab says today’s methanol-ready fleet could burn 2 billion gallons yearly

By ECONEWS
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October 13, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Giant resin bee Megachile sculpturalis feeding on purple flowers in southern France

Researchers in Catalonia mapped 150 records of the giant resin bee, the first non-native bee reported in Europe, and found an ornamental street tree mattered at least as much as climate

By Adrian Villellas
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October 13, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Mastcam-Z panorama of the Margin Unit on the inner edge of Jezero Crater on Mars

NASA’s Perseverance rover studied more than 185 rock targets along the inner rim of Jezero Crater and found they met water at least three times, the last as hot fluid that left fluorite veins

By ECONEWS
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October 13, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Agua Negra Pass in the Andes, on the border between San Juan, Argentina, and Chile

The Agua Negra tunnel plan calls for a custom machine to bore twin 8.6-mile tubes under the Andes, but the $1.5 billion Argentina-Chile project has been stuck since the IDB approved it in 2017

By Adrian Villellas
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October 12, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Artist's impression of a young star surrounded by a dusty protoplanetary disk

University of New Mexico scientists turned up to 70 percent of the iron oxide in dry, melted basalt into iron and water within 3 hours, a hint that Earth’s water may have formed this way

By ECONEWS
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October 12, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Beaver Valley nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania

The Energy Department offered Vistra up to $4.2 billion for 433 more megawatts from nuclear uprates at three plants in Ohio and Pennsylvania, and the upgrades could help keep them running 20 years past their licenses

By Adrian Villellas
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October 12, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Lake Piva in Montenegro surrounded by mountains

Montenegro’s Lake Piva dropped about 98 feet in a drought, exposing houses and a mill from old Plužine, a town flooded 51 years ago, and its chronicler says he still dreams of his drowned home

By ECONEWS
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October 12, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Map from SkyTruth's global analysis of oil slicks at sea

SkyTruth’s satellite analysis estimates oil slicks cover about 610,000 square miles of ocean each year, and 16 ships appeared to be discharging oil in over 10 percent of their satellite images at sea

By Adrian Villellas
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October 12, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Strangler fig roots growing over the stone galleries of Ta Prohm temple in Cambodia

Cambodia’s Ta Prohm temple, founded in 1186 and seen in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, was left to the jungle on purpose, and restorers have said its giant trees crack the walls while holding them up

By ECONEWS
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October 12, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Field team carrying a large green anaconda along the Las Piedras River in Peru

A DNA study of anacondas from nine countries split the green anaconda in two, with the northern green anaconda 5.5 percent apart from its twin, and critics went after its name within a month

By Adrian Villellas
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October 12, 2026 at 6:32 AM
Landsat image of Anak Krakatau volcano on September 5, 2026

Anak Krakatau eruption ran nonstop for 25 hours in September and sent lava down the island’s western flanks, and a plant expert says eruptions reset the ecosystem so life rebuilds from microbes and moss

By ECONEWS
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October 11, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Aerial view of Lake Peigneur and Jefferson Island in Louisiana

Louisiana’s Lake Peigneur emptied into a salt mine within hours in 1980 while a Texaco rig drilled on the lake, and about 50 miners escaped, but federal investigators never pinned down the exact cause

By Adrian Villellas
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October 11, 2026 at 5:02 PM
NASA concept illustration of a lunar base at the Moon's south pole

Two Harvard and Smithsonian astrophysicists ran the numbers on water on the Moon and found a million-person city would drain 1 billion tons of ice in about a century, even recycling 98 percent

By ECONEWS
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October 11, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Gummy bears made with potassium lactate recovered from a recyclable wind turbine resin

Michigan State engineer John Dorgan ate gummy bears made with an ingredient recovered from a resin designed for wind turbine blades, and the same material can also become plexiglass, diaper polymer and new turbine panels

By Adrian Villellas
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October 11, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Astronaut James van Hoften holds the bee enclosure module full of honeybees aboard the space shuttle Challenger

A Tennessee student’s experiment put 3,400 honeybees aboard NASA’s Challenger in 1984, and within a week the bees in space built about 30 square inches of comb whose cells no longer tilted the same way

By ECONEWS
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October 11, 2026 at 10:16 AM
The hamlet of Ginostra on the green slopes of Stromboli seen from the sea

A village of a few dozen winter residents on Stromboli reopened what Italian media call the smallest school in Europe for one 6-year-old girl, and her mother says the alternative was splitting the family

By Adrian Villellas
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October 11, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Aerial view of excavated stone foundations of a three-room complex at ancient Mieza in northern Greece

Archaeologists in northern Greece digging the royal gymnasium believed to be where Aristotle taught Alexander found two mosaic-floored banquet halls built for 20 couches, and their craftsmanship echoes the royal palace of Aigai

By ECONEWS
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October 11, 2026 at 6:31 AM
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