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IRS 2026 tax season: most refunds move to direct deposit, with 164 million returns expected

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February 2, 2026 at 4:52 PM

A “Weigh Station” road sign in North Carolina directing commercial trucks to inspection and compliance checkpoints

A federal audit finds 54% of some North Carolina commercial truck licenses were illegal, putting $50 million at risk

By Adrian Villellas

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February 2, 2026 at 3:00 PM

A nearly dry riverbed with a thin stream cutting through cracked sediment, illustrating extreme drought and water scarcity.

The water apocalypse already has a date, and millions of people will experience it sooner than imagined

By ECONEWS

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February 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM

The USS Texas sits afloat near Galveston as restoration work continues on the historic battleship’s superstructure.

It was about to sink forever, but now it’s back: the legendary USS Texas, the battleship that survived two world wars, has been reborn after a titanic restoration project lasting more than 300,000 hours

By Adrian Villellas

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February 2, 2026 at 10:15 AM

Crowds gather around Cloud Gate in Millennium Park as visitor fees and hotel taxes rise ahead of 2026.

Chicago imposes the highest tourist tax in US history (and it won’t be the only one): how it will affect your next booking in 2026

By Adrian Villellas

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February 2, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Sunset over Laguna Itzan in northern Guatemala, where lake sediments preserve a long climate record linked to Maya history.

A lake in Guatemala preserved 3,300 years of “evidence,” and now its sediments show that drought alone does not explain the Maya collapse

By ECONEWS

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February 2, 2026 at 6:30 AM

A traveler uses a magnetic wireless power bank on a smartphone inside an airplane cabin, highlighting safer solid-state battery charging.

BMX SolidSafe, a solid-state magnetic power bank designed not to catch fire

By Adrian Villellas

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February 1, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Fluorescent microscope image of longfin inshore squid embryos, used to track how nerve cells form during nervous system development.

Scientists are observing in real time how a cephalopod nervous system is built, and the pattern looks far too similar to that of vertebrates to ignore

By Adrian Villellas

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February 1, 2026 at 3:00 PM

People wait in line outside a California Department of Motor Vehicles office as some REAL ID holders are told to renew due to an error.

California DMV error: about 325,000 REAL IDs were issued with the wrong expiration date

By ECONEWS

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February 1, 2026 at 2:03 PM

Forest stream and rocky riverbank in Nandhaur Wildlife Sanctuary, where camera traps recorded smooth-coated otters during a tiger survey.

Researchers were setting up cameras to count tigers in Nandhaur. They focused on a forest stream, and what appeared on the memory card was not listed in any official records

By ECONEWS

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February 1, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Earth’s curved horizon and vast ocean seen from the International Space Station, highlighting the planet’s growing heat stored in the seas.

A new heat record threatens to trigger climate disasters

By ECONEWS

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February 1, 2026 at 10:15 AM

Ford Nugget 40th Anniversary camper van parked outdoors with the side door open, showing the compact interior module.

A legend on wheels is reborn: Ford launches the 40th anniversary version of its iconic Nugget camper van, with a retro design that pays homage to 1986 and details that will transport you back in time (bathroom included)

By ECONEWS

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February 1, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot works at a lab table during a demo, showing AI-driven hands handling small parts.

Elon Musk’s plan to redesign the world’s factories… and perhaps the planet too: humanoid robots that work 12 hours a day, never rest, and use artificial intelligence

By Adrian Villellas

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February 1, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Ukraine’s Octopus AI interceptor drone during a field test, built to detect and destroy Shahed-type UAVs before impact.

Ukraine’s secret weapon is not a missile… it’s an AI-powered drone that can save forests, rivers, and millions of lives

By ECONEWS

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January 31, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Kostensuchus atrox fossil skull from Patagonia, a 70-million-year-old crocodile relative with serrated predator teeth

A team was excavating in Patagonia when they saw dark fragments inside a closed rock, and now they are talking about a predator that no one had put on the map

By ECONEWS

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January 31, 2026 at 5:00 PM

$A wide view of the Hektoria Glacier terminus on the Antarctic Peninsula, with fractured sea ice in the foreground.$

Antarctica has just broken a record that is alarming scientists: a glacier the size of a city collapsed in just two months, and experts fear that this is only the beginning

By ECONEWS

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January 31, 2026 at 10:15 AM

A 3D-printed robotic “Third Thumb” strapped to a hand, designed to add an extra controllable digit for gripping and dexterity.

For the first time, a robotic thumb has been developed that you can learn to use in 60 seconds and that could forever change how we use our hands

By Adrian Villellas

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January 31, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Mark Zuckerberg’s Hawaii property where a $30 million underground mega-bunker is being built

Mark Zuckerberg’s $30 million Hawaii bunker: 30 rooms, water tanks and blast-resistant doors

By Adrian Villellas

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January 31, 2026 at 7:37 AM

A U.S. Coast Guard member stands beside stacks of seized cocaine bales during an offload at a port.

A Coast Guard patrol intercepted hundreds of packages of cocaine on the high seas, but behind that record lies a chain of deforestation, poisoned rivers, and rainforests turned into clandestine airstrips

By Adrian Villellas

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January 31, 2026 at 6:30 AM

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IRS 2026 tax season: most refunds move to direct deposit, with 164 million returns expected

A federal audit finds 54% of some North Carolina commercial truck licenses were illegal, putting $50 million at risk

The water apocalypse already has a date, and millions of people will experience it sooner than imagined

It was about to sink forever, but now it’s back: the legendary USS Texas, the battleship that survived two world wars, has been reborn after a titanic restoration project lasting more than 300,000 hours

Chicago imposes the highest tourist tax in US history (and it won’t be the only one): how it will affect your next booking in 2026

A lake in Guatemala preserved 3,300 years of “evidence,” and now its sediments show that drought alone does not explain the Maya collapse

BMX SolidSafe, a solid-state magnetic power bank designed not to catch fire

Scientists are observing in real time how a cephalopod nervous system is built, and the pattern looks far too similar to that of vertebrates to ignore

California DMV error: about 325,000 REAL IDs were issued with the wrong expiration date

Researchers were setting up cameras to count tigers in Nandhaur. They focused on a forest stream, and what appeared on the memory card was not listed in any official records

A new heat record threatens to trigger climate disasters

A legend on wheels is reborn: Ford launches the 40th anniversary version of its iconic Nugget camper van, with a retro design that pays homage to 1986 and details that will transport you back in time (bathroom included)

Elon Musk’s plan to redesign the world’s factories… and perhaps the planet too: humanoid robots that work 12 hours a day, never rest, and use artificial intelligence

Ukraine’s secret weapon is not a missile… it’s an AI-powered drone that can save forests, rivers, and millions of lives

A team was excavating in Patagonia when they saw dark fragments inside a closed rock, and now they are talking about a predator that no one had put on the map

Antarctica has just broken a record that is alarming scientists: a glacier the size of a city collapsed in just two months, and experts fear that this is only the beginning

For the first time, a robotic thumb has been developed that you can learn to use in 60 seconds and that could forever change how we use our hands

Mark Zuckerberg’s $30 million Hawaii bunker: 30 rooms, water tanks and blast-resistant doors

A Coast Guard patrol intercepted hundreds of packages of cocaine on the high seas, but behind that record lies a chain of deforestation, poisoned rivers, and rainforests turned into clandestine airstrips

Satellites tracked a loss of about 4.6 trillion gallons of groundwater in the snow-fed Upper Colorado River Basin during the 2020-2022 drought, and that is nearly double what the drier Lower Basin lost

A 38-year-old artist built an earthen house in Argentina’s Traslasierra Valley with about 12 car windshields given away in the town where she grew up, and from above its two hexagons form a heart

In Yunnan’s Yanjin, the so-called world’s narrowest city squeezes homes into a river valley that narrows to about 98 feet, and the famous 400,000 population figure actually covers the whole county, not the town

In Slovakia’s Liptov and Lower Orava regions, brown bears damaged 130 hives in 37 raids between 2020 and 2024, and more than two-thirds of those raids hit beehives behind electric fences

An estimated 4.2 million balcony solar systems are now plugged in at homes and apartments in Germany, and in Croatia the same small kit still needs a certified installer, design documents and paid metering

Ancient sled dogs from sites up to 2,000 years old on Russia’s Chukotka coast had stubby legs like today’s teams, about 6 percent shorter than other canids, and a model explains the pulling advantage

More than 750 nesting boxes for native birds have come from a Coppell, Texas, teenager who lost his pet cockatiel, he says, and his Backyard Bird Project has grown to chapters in 24 states and three countries

Two owner-builders priced out of Melbourne built a 2,286-square-foot Earthship in Cygnet, Tasmania, with rammed earth walls, bottle bricks and no fireplace, and they say their heating bills are $0

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