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High resolution seismic model showing fast wave anomalies deep beneath the Pacific Ocean in Earth’s lower mantle.

Something that “shouldn’t be there” appears beneath the Pacific, and a new high-resolution seismic model leaves geophysicists with a huge mystery

By Adrian Villellas
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February 14, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Social Security card and federal database breach investigation involving millions of Americans

Former SSA data chief says DOGE copied the Social Security database to an unsecured cloud, putting every number at risk

By ECONEWS
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February 13, 2026 at 6:30 PM
High power microwave pulsed energy system developed in China for potential satellite disruption

China surprises the world with a microwave weapon that fires 20 gigawatts for a full minute and could blind Elon Musk’s satellites without firing a single missile

By ECONEWS
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February 13, 2026 at 1:17 PM
Illustration of a human brain with highlighted neural tissue and an inset microscopy image, representing microplastics detected in brain samples.

Your brain may be accumulating microplastics, and the big question is no longer whether they are there, but what they might be doing

By Adrian Villellas
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February 13, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Paper parachutes with dead mice baits laced with paracetamol are lined up for an aerial drop to target brown tree snakes in Guam.

Guam drops 2,000 dead mice laced with paracetamol to kill invasive brown tree snakes

By ECONEWS
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February 13, 2026 at 8:15 AM
Mechanical extraction of banana pseudostem fibers for textile and paper production

The tons of banana trunks left over after the harvest are being turned into raw materials for clothing and paper, while mechanical extraction and controlled drying are accelerating industrialization

By Adrian Villellas
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February 13, 2026 at 8:04 AM
SpaceX Starship stands behind a glowing “Gateway to Mars” sign at Starbase in South Texas at night.

Elon Musk reveals his most ambitious (and detailed) plan for Mars: 1,000 spacecraft, 20 years of launches, and a self-sustaining city of one million inhabitants on Mars by 2050

By ECONEWS
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February 13, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Chinese geologists make history: they discover a deposit buried 3,000 meters underground with more gold than South Africa's reserves, which could be worth more than a country's total GDP

Chinese geologists make history: they discover a deposit buried 3,000 meters underground with more gold than South Africa’s reserves, which could be worth more than a country’s total GDP

By Adrian Villellas
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February 13, 2026 at 5:11 AM
Stingless bee species in the Peruvian Amazon now recognized as legal subjects with environmental rights

Peru recognizes the legal rights of stingless bees, the first insects in the world to receive this status

By ECONEWS
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February 13, 2026 at 3:46 AM
Social Security Administration office during U.S. government shutdown as officials confirm benefit payments continue

Social Security payments will not be affected by the government shutdown, the agency confirms

By ECONEWS
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February 12, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Woolly mammoth with long curved tusks, a heavyweight used to model how slow giant animals could move

The 75-ton Argentinosaurus could not run at all, and the study states that they were slow and heavy and barely exceeded 6 miles per hour

By Adrian Villellas
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February 12, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Moai statues standing along an ancient road on Rapa Nui, where researchers say the figures were moved upright

For centuries, we believed that the moai statues were dragged until they destroyed the island… now science says that they walked, and history changes completely

By Adrian Villellas
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February 12, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Person taking an ice cold shower as researchers study effects of cold water immersion on the body

What cold showers do to the body, according to a review of 11 trials with 3,177 adults

By ECONEWS
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February 12, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Reconstruction of a 508-million-year-old Cambrian sea worm with long spines and tentacles, after the head mix-up was corrected.

A 508-million-year-old worm from the primordial ocean, invisible teeth, and an embarrassing mistake: in 1977, they believed it walked on spikes… in 2015, they discovered that it wasn’t even its head

By ECONEWS
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February 12, 2026 at 12:46 PM
High voltage power lines carrying electricity from Sweden as wind power output drops during cold winter weather

Wind farms in trouble: Sweden supplies electricity “as much as the lines can carry.”

By Adrian Villellas
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February 12, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Perfectly preserved 18th century explorer ship discovered on the seafloor off the coast of Australia

An exploration ship lost 250 years ago has just been found perfectly preserved off the coast of Australia, like a time capsule from the past

By ECONEWS
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February 12, 2026 at 8:15 AM
Archaeologists excavate medieval skeletons beneath the chapel at the Tower of London during a major archaeological dig

Archaeologists discover forgotten burials containing medieval skeletons beneath the chapel at the Tower of London… and some may be victims of the Black Death

By ECONEWS
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February 12, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Portable microscope captures stomata opening and closing on a living plant leaf under changing light conditions

For centuries, leaves have made a vital decision in milliseconds… now, scientists, with a portable microscope, have managed to capture that moment and see it for the first time

By Adrian Villellas
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February 11, 2026 at 8:02 PM
A hydroelectric dam in Ecuador releases water, as CELEC restores generation at Agoyán and San Francisco to bolster the power grid.

Massive blackouts? Not this time: the miraculous return of two hydroelectric power plants built in the 1980s is now saving the country from an energy catastrophe thanks to a surgical intervention carried out by CELEC in record time

By Adrian Villellas
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February 11, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Gene edited fungus developed in China produces meat like protein with a lower environmental footprint

A Chinese invention is revolutionizing the food industry: genetically modified mushrooms that taste like meat and use 70% less land than traditional livestock farming

By ECONEWS
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February 11, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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