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ALMA image of a protoplanetary disk showing rings and gaps shaped by forming baby planets

New images capture “footprints” of baby planets around newborn stars, which could be forming in just hundreds of thousands of years

By ECONEWS
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February 7, 2026 at 12:30 PM
A cargo ship escorted by tugboats moves through a canal channel with a bridge in the background.

The Panama Canal is forgotten: a new interoceanic corridor opens that will change global trade

By ECONEWS
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February 7, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Compact early universe galaxy forming stars rapidly just 600 million years after the Big Bang

Just 600 million years after the Big Bang, a compact galaxy appears that produces stars as if there were no tomorrow

By ECONEWS
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February 7, 2026 at 8:45 AM
A hand lowers a clear biodegradable plastic bag with cherry tomatoes into a beaker of water

Japanese scientists create plastic that disappears in the sea in just one hour

By Adrian Villellas
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February 7, 2026 at 6:51 AM
Fresh lava flow from Iceland’s Fagradalsfjall volcano where microbes appear within hours after cooling

Scientists capture for the first time how life returns to “hell”: microbes appear hours after an eruption, and no one understands how they survive

By Adrian Villellas
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February 7, 2026 at 6:30 AM
The SS United States ocean liner sits in port as tugboats guide it during a tow, beginning its journey to become an artificial reef.

The legendary SS United States is moving again after decades at a standstill, and its destination is no longer the Atlantic but becoming the world’s largest artificial reef

By ECONEWS
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February 6, 2026 at 6:30 PM
NASA image of asteroid Bennu, a rubble-pile near-Earth asteroid, shown as a rocky gray sphere against black space.

NASA’s asteroid watchlist has five dates between 2030 and 2880, and they are not a countdown to the end of the world

By Adrian Villellas
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February 6, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Screenshot of the IRS website showing the IRS logo and a page headline about doing more with an IRS account.

There are no new federal stimulus checks in February 2026: what the IRS and official sources actually say

By ECONEWS
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February 6, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Aerial view of a large waste-to-energy incineration plant in China surrounded by green hills and nearby facilities.

China has built more than 1,000 waste incineration plants and now lacks enough waste to feed them, so in 2026 it will begin excavating landfills as if they were fuel mines

By ECONEWS
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February 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
ALMA telescope image of fluffy molecular clouds in the Small Magellanic Cloud where new stars are forming

ALMA detects “cotton” clouds in the Small Magellanic Cloud and provides unexpected clues about how the first stars in the universe were born

By ECONEWS
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February 6, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Japan's H3 rocket lifts off from Tanegashima Space Center, flames and smoke rising over the Pacific.

JAXA admits that the H3 failed due to damage to the satellite section and fuel tube, and the blow comes at a key moment

By ECONEWS
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February 6, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Aerial view of a large hydroelectric dam construction site in Patagonia on Argentina’s Santa Cruz River.

$136 million from China restarts Argentina’s stalled Jorge Cepernic dam on the Santa Cruz River in Patagonia

By Adrian Villellas
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February 6, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Backlit plumes erupt from Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus in a Cassini spacecraft image.

A new study of Cassini data confirms complex organic chemistry in the ocean of Saturn’s moon Enceladus

By Adrian Villellas
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February 6, 2026 at 7:41 AM
Hillside landscape with an inset satellite-style heat map highlighting a methane plume, illustrating research on temporary CO2 removals.

Methane is out of control… but this strategy involving temporary CO2 capture could slow down its climate impact

By ECONEWS
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February 6, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Rocky Pacific Northwest coastline with waves and forested headlands near Vancouver Island, where scientists study tearing in the Cascadia subduction zone.

The Earth is tearing apart beneath the Pacific Northwest, and scientists have just caught it in the midst of a geological collapse

By Adrian Villellas
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February 5, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Cargo ship with onboard hydrogen storage tanks, illustrating a UK project that turns seawater into clean hydrogen fuel.

British researchers develop a ship engine that runs on hydrogen made from seawater instead of diesel

By Adrian Villellas
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February 5, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Researchers stand on a rocky slope in northeast Greenland after a fossil field expedition on Ymer Island near Mount Celsius.

A Pole reveals what Greenland has to offer. “Our legs literally buckled with excitement”

By ECONEWS
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February 5, 2026 at 3:00 PM
A cooking pot sits over an open fire fueled by plastic bottles and trash, showing how waste is burned for heat in poor areas.

Thousands of families in poor countries cook with plastic… and almost no one talks about the risks this poses

By ECONEWS
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February 5, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Close-up of an ancient coin edge held between fingers from the Anglesey Iron Age gold hoard, later declared treasure.

A metal detectorist found two gold coins in a quiet field in Anglesey, returned another day and then another, until the field began to tell a story that no one in Wales had seen before

By Adrian Villellas
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February 5, 2026 at 11:49 AM
Fish circle an offshore wind turbine foundation in the Dutch North Sea as sunbeams cut through the water.

They built turbines to generate energy… but without realizing it, they are bringing marine life back to a place where everything was dead

By Adrian Villellas
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February 5, 2026 at 10:23 AM
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