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Two dishes of strawberries, a few from uncovered plants and many more from plants under Plant Armor fabric

NC State’s Plant Armor fabric helped strawberry plants produce 3.56 times as many berries

By Adrian Villellas
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October 10, 2026 at 6:29 PM
A large trevally and a school of small fish swimming over sand at the Dunsborough artificial reef

Two artificial reefs off Western Australia grew from a dozen fish species to over 60

By ECONEWS
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October 10, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Two Liter of Light volunteers hold a water-filled solar bottle bulb fitted into a sheet of metal roofing

A Brazilian mechanic pushed a water-filled bottle through a roof tile during 2002 blackouts, and lab tests show his solar bottle bulb passes 50 to 70 percent of incoming light and spreads it more evenly

By Adrian Villellas
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October 10, 2026 at 2:58 PM
A Ganges river dolphin surfacing in brown river water

About 20 Ganges river dolphins survive in a Bangladesh river too polluted for native fish

By ECONEWS
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October 10, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Engineers in a clean room lower the gold-colored MOXIE instrument into the Perseverance rover chassis

Engineers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center modeled a Mars propellant plant turning Martian air and buried ice into 300 metric tons of methane and oxygen, and power generation was 59 percent of its landed mass

By Adrian Villellas
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October 10, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Airbus A350F freighter test aircraft taking off on its first flight

Airbus A350F freighter completes its maiden flight and begins 400-hour test campaign

By ECONEWS
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October 10, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Strawberry guava leaves covered with small galls made by the biocontrol insect Tectococcus ovatus

Invasive strawberry guava has spread across Hawaii since it arrived in 1825, and researchers used drones to drop a tiny Brazilian insect on it nearly five times faster than ground crews

By Adrian Villellas
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October 10, 2026 at 6:28 AM
Aerial view of the Ultium Cells battery plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee

GM and LG will mass-produce LMR battery cells in Tennessee and add 500 jobs

By ECONEWS
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October 9, 2026 at 6:33 PM
A gray wolf standing in deep snow in a winter forest

Isle Royale wolves were rebuilt from 19 animals, and one brother-and-sister pair produced at least 12 pups, yet a five-year study still gives the population a better than 80 percent chance of lasting 20 years

By Adrian Villellas
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October 9, 2026 at 4:58 PM
A large seawater heat pump being lowered into the Maskinrummet building in Aarhus by workers

Aarhus in Denmark switched on six seawater heat pumps that pull up to 317,000 gallons of bay water an hour to warm about 1,900 homes, and eight more are coming to help replace wood pellets

By ECONEWS
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October 9, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Two coronagraph operators look up at a wall of monitors showing telemetry in a control room

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope held steady for eight hours and saw its first coronagraph starlight

By Adrian Villellas
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October 9, 2026 at 7:49 AM
People inspect the timbers of a shipwreck section exposed on a Nantucket beach

Nantucket shipwreck uncovered by a nor’easter is not the 1884 Warren Sawyer after all

By Adrian Villellas
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October 9, 2026 at 7:35 AM
Laguna Colorada in Bolivia seen from the International Space Station, with red-orange water and white mineral deposits

Laguna Colorada looks blue and brown in a new ESA satellite image, and a 2026 study found the red Bolivian lake carries 3,157 milligrams of lithium per liter where James’s flamingos breed

By ECONEWS
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October 8, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Aerial view of the GICON high-altitude wind turbine in Schipkau, Germany, rising above a wind farm

World’s tallest wind turbine reaches 1,198 feet in eastern Germany, with power tests next

By Adrian Villellas
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October 8, 2026 at 4:58 PM
A slate arrowhead estimated at 5,000 to 6,000 years old with reindeer on the ice patch behind it in Norway

Archaeologists pulled 48 prehistoric arrows from melting ice in Norway’s Jotunheimen mountains this year, and the oldest, tipped with slate, may be up to 6,000 years old as the most ancient ice finally disappears

By ECONEWS
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October 8, 2026 at 3:02 PM
A blacktip shark swimming in clear blue water in the Bahamas

Blacktip sharks heard sounds from 243 feet away and turned away from the source

By Adrian Villellas
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October 8, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Antora thermal battery units beside POET's bioprocessing plant in Big Stone City, South Dakota, with steam rising behind them

A Kansas ethanol plant will draw around-the-clock heat from a 5.8 gigawatt-hour thermal battery that stores cheap electricity in solid carbon blocks, and Pratt’s mayor says Antora came early and listened

By ECONEWS
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October 8, 2026 at 10:12 AM
The Hwangja Hwatong, a corroded bronze hand cannon, photographed against a dark blue background

Soldiers sweeping for land mines in South Korea found the country’s oldest gunpowder weapon

By ECONEWS
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October 8, 2026 at 8:47 AM
An olive ridley sea turtle resting in the sand beside its nest near Seal Beach, California

Two olive ridley sea turtles laid the first sea turtle nests ever recorded on the U.S. West Coast in Orange County, and biologists moved 204 eggs indoors before Hurricane Polo’s surf arrived

By Adrian Villellas
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October 8, 2026 at 6:33 AM
A dense cloud of starlings swirls in a gray sky above the domed roof of Eastbourne Pier in England

Thousands of starlings are forming huge shape-shifting clouds over Poland, and a Polish ornithologist says cleverer birds can lead less clever ones to feeding grounds where they are more exposed to attack

By Adrian Villellas
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October 7, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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