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An older man and woman walk side by side along a wooden boardwalk surrounded by greenery

Brisk walking or jogging ranked high for bone density in a review of 124 trials

By ECONEWS
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October 7, 2026 at 3:04 PM
A lifelike model of a Neanderthal child with long brown hair at the Natural History Museum Vienna

Max Planck scientists read DNA from 27 late Neanderthals in Belgium and France and found no sign of recent Homo sapiens ancestry, even though both lived in Europe at the same time

By ECONEWS
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October 7, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Pipes, separators and buildings of the Wairakei geothermal power plant seen from a lookout in New Zealand

The Wairakei geothermal power station, the first to run on flash steam, is being replaced

By Adrian Villellas
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October 7, 2026 at 10:17 AM
The Alaska Centennial Nugget, a mass of gold and white quartz weighing 294.1 troy ounces, on a blue background

A miner pushing dirt with a bulldozer near Ruby, Alaska, in 1998 spotted something unusual, and it turned out to be the state’s largest gold nugget, a 294.1-troy-ounce mass that later sold for $750,000

By ECONEWS
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October 7, 2026 at 8:42 AM
Two people kneel on pavement measuring a long Burmese python stretched along the ground

Florida pays python hunters up to $30 an hour plus $50 for each snake and $25 for every extra foot, and one contractor warns it is unrealistic to move there thinking you can make a living doing this

By Adrian Villellas
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October 7, 2026 at 6:36 AM
Large vacuum chamber and laser equipment at an experimental station of a high-power laser facility

Physicists fired a laser at the plastic used in drink bottles and recovered nanodiamonds just 3 nanometers wide, after each shot hurled about 10 trillion of them at more than 22,000 mph into a soft gel

By ECONEWS
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October 6, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Moss-covered stone walls of an abandoned house among trees and fallen leaves

An abandoned village in Galicia with 12 stone houses was listed for 0 euros, but the broker says the deal is a 50-year concession and the town puts the bill for roads, water and power at up to €3 million

By Adrian Villellas
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October 6, 2026 at 5:03 PM
A small spotted wild cat with large dark markings standing on leaf litter in a forest setting

A tiny spotted cat that a Bolivian man fed noodles, rice and eggs, thinking it was a kitten, turned out to be Leopardus tilcayo, the first new wild cat species scientists have described in more than a century

By Adrian Villellas
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October 6, 2026 at 2:58 PM
A pinkish orange lion's mane jellyfish washed up next to bladder wrack on a pebbly beach

Hundreds of pink lion’s mane jellyfish washed up on a Baltic beach near Germany’s Fehmarn island, and a marine biologist warns that their stinging venom can stay active for some time after they die

By ECONEWS
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October 6, 2026 at 12:33 PM
A woman standing still and looking downcast in the middle of a busy crowd

According to psychology, loneliness combined with social isolation may cost men about 5.8 years free of depression or anxiety after 50, and in a study of 277,489 adults healthy habits narrowed the gap for isolation but not for loneliness

By Adrian Villellas
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October 6, 2026 at 10:12 AM
Teen inventor Benjamin Davis with his filament recycling machine

A 16-year-old from Massachusetts built a desktop machine that turns failed 3D prints and old plastic bottles into new filament for 90% less than commercial recyclers, and it won him a $75,000 award

By ECONEWS
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October 6, 2026 at 9:25 AM
Green moss carpets covering the rocky tundra of Ardley Island, Antarctica, with snow patches on the hills

Scientists cut the ultraviolet light reaching moss and lichen on Antarctica’s Ardley Island by 20%, and the Antarctic tundra took up about half as much carbon, an unwelcome twist in the healing of the ozone layer

By ECONEWS
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October 6, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Silver bars, rings and cut silver packed inside an old clay pot

Someone laying a patio in northern Denmark dug up the country’s largest known Viking silver hoard, 18.5 kilograms of bracelets, bars and coins, and one bar is scratched with a runic word experts have never seen before

By Adrian Villellas
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October 6, 2026 at 6:33 AM
A streaked brown shorebird standing on dry grass

Only about one in three Arctic tundra shorebirds come back to the same breeding area each year, against two in three elsewhere, and at the tundra’s northern edge it falls to one in ten, a Max Planck study found

By Adrian Villellas
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October 5, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Volunteers in yellow safety vests clearing trash from a wooded creek bank

A California retiree started picking up litter on her pandemic walks, and the volunteer group she built in the San Fernando Valley says it has now hauled away nearly 750,000 pounds of trash

By ECONEWS
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October 5, 2026 at 5:02 PM
A Burmese python coiled on a tree branch

Researchers have about 90 robotic rabbits out in the Everglades to lure Burmese pythons into view, after live rabbits drew 21 python detections to camera pens against one at an empty pen

By ECONEWS
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October 5, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Okanagan Lake with a rounded hill on the far shore under a clear sky

Someone paid C$200 at a yard sale in southern Ontario for E.J. Hughes’ Okanagan Lake, and the painting sold for C$402,500 at auction in 2007, months after the reclusive British Columbia painter died

By Adrian Villellas
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October 5, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Rows of solar panels cleaned by Ecoppia robots

Robots built by the Israeli company Ecoppia roll along desert solar panels every night and brush off the dust without a drop of water, saving about 2.6 billion gallons so far, according to the company

By ECONEWS
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October 5, 2026 at 11:49 AM
A white mug filled with black coffee on a wooden table

A study of nearly 1 million UK adults found that people who like their tea or coffee very hot had about three times the risk of one type of esophageal cancer, and the researchers’ advice is simply to let it cool

By ECONEWS
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October 5, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Three sarcophagi in a vaulted marble chamber, with a gray-green stone sarcophagus on the left

Norway’s King Harald V now lies in a boat-shaped sarcophagus carved from olivine, a green Norwegian rock that can bind CO2, but no one has measured how much carbon the royal tomb will actually take up

By Adrian Villellas
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October 5, 2026 at 8:46 AM
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