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Betel leaf with white lime paste and chopped areca nut held in hands, linked to ancient betel chewing in Asia

The remains found in the teeth of a woman from 4,000 years ago could change what we know about betel consumption in Asia

By Adrian Villellas
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April 1, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Tiny dwarf shrew perched on a blue gloved hand after being identified as a new 3-gram species in Ethiopia

Biologists can’t believe the latest discovery of a tiny new species weighing only 3 grams: “Flat head, hairy tail, and the weight of a sugar cube”

By Adrian Villellas
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April 1, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Composite space image showing a faint circled object inside a purple dark matter-rich region, linked to the Cloud 9 discovery

Astronomers suspect they have discovered an object that could reveal one of the greatest mysteries of the universe

By ECONEWS
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April 1, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Pod of dolphins swimming at the ocean surface, marine mammals known for sleeping with one half of the brain awake

In 1964, scientists discovered that this marine mammal could sleep with half its brain awake, and it is not the only one that hardly ever rests

By ECONEWS
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April 1, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Whole onion beside a glass bowl of baking soda on a wooden table, ingredients often used in homemade insect bait

Why onion and baking soda are used as a homemade cockroach bait

By ECONEWS
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April 1, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Microscope images of Diplolaimelloides woaabi, the newly identified worm species discovered in Utah’s Great Salt Lake

A tectonic plate that had been “dead” for 200 million years has just reappeared beneath western North America, and scientists say it could be increasing seismic risk without anyone noticing

By ECONEWS
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April 1, 2026 at 6:31 AM
European eel Anguilla anguilla, a migratory fish now listed as critically endangered after decades of population decline.

The eel, which can grow to over a meter in length and travel thousands of kilometers between rivers and the sea, is critically endangered according to the IUCN, and now the industry fears a total ban

By ECONEWS
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April 1, 2026 at 4:26 AM
Invisible countertop cooktops arriving in 2026 could upend induction and glass-ceramic stoves.

Invisible induction cooktops hidden under the countertop: how they compare with traditional glass induction

By ECONEWS
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March 31, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Microbialite-covered shoreline at Utah’s Great Salt Lake, where scientists found a newly described worm species

Diplolaimelloides woaabi: a new roundworm species found at the bottom of Utah’s Great Salt Lake

By ECONEWS
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March 31, 2026 at 6:30 PM
JAMSTEC drill ship Chikyu at sea in Japan during research into the fault that triggered the devastating 2011 tsunami

Drilling nearly 8,000 meters below the sea explains why Japan’s 2011 tsunami was so large

By Adrian Villellas
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March 31, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Surface of Mars showing ancient lakebed and ice sheet evidence explored by NASA Curiosity rover

NASA explores the surface of Mars and finds traces of “ice sheets” dating back 3.6 billion years

By ECONEWS
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March 31, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Coelacanth fish Latimeria chalumnae, the ancient lobe-finned species rediscovered off the coast of South Africa in 1938.

In 1938, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer identified a living coelacanth, a fish thought extinct for 65 million years

By ECONEWS
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March 31, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Researcher examining a large pink granite boulder in Antarctica linked to a hidden structure beneath Pine Island Glacier

The pink rocks of Antarctica reveal a gigantic secret structure hidden under the ice for 175 million years

By ECONEWS
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March 31, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Illustration of Sagittarius A at the center of the Milky Way, the massive object long believed to be a supermassive black hole.

A study suggests that a dense clump of dark matter, not a black hole, could sit at the center of the Milky Way

By ECONEWS
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March 31, 2026 at 10:38 AM
A common octopus exhibiting complex camouflage and arm coordination while navigating a coral reef environment.

They would not be insects or mammals: humanity’s most likely successor lives under the sea and is smarter than you think

By ECONEWS
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March 31, 2026 at 8:15 AM
A group of guanacos being released into the savanna-like habitat of El Impenetrable National Park in northern Argentina after a 110-year absence.

Argentina achieved the unthinkable after 110 years, and the “return” of this mammal to the Chaco is already changing the ecosystem from day one

By Adrian Villellas
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March 31, 2026 at 6:30 AM
China’s record 35.6 tesla superconducting magnet developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences for extreme magnetic field research.

China has just activated a 35.6-tesla magnet, 700,000 times more powerful than the Earth’s magnetic field, and the big question is what it intends to do with such power in 2026

By ECONEWS
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March 31, 2026 at 6:11 AM
Artist’s illustration of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way

NASA makes it clear: the “monster” located at the center of the Milky Way (4 million suns) has a set date for its “awakening”

By ECONEWS
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March 30, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Patient undergoing dialysis in a medical clinic as scientists advance artificial kidney research using human stem cells

USC researchers grow long-lasting kidney stem cells and organoids, a step toward an artificial kidney

By ECONEWS
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March 30, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Vintage clock face illustrating a study on quantum time, electron transitions, and attosecond delays in different materials

Time is not the same in all materials, and an experiment shows that an electron can take between 26 and more than 200 attoseconds, depending on where it is located

By Adrian Villellas
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March 30, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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