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Green-lit Maya calendar stone wheel, used as a visual reference for a new explanation of the 819-day cycle and long-term sky timing.

Researchers explain the Maya 819-day calendar: it lines up with the visible planets over a 45-year cycle

By ECONEWS
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January 30, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Close-up of a chameleon showing its turret-like eye, a trait explained by newly identified coiled optic nerves inside the skull.

For 2,000 years, no one could fully explain why chameleons’ eyes seem to live separately, and the answer was coiled inside the skull in the form of an old telephone cable

By Adrian Villellas
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January 30, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Aerial view of a forest river at sunrise, symbolizing how rising CO2 changes tree stomata, water use, and carbon uptake.

Since the 1970s, climate models have favored trees… but now, 50 years later, biology tells us something else we cannot ignore

By ECONEWS
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January 30, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Freight train on the Interoceanic Corridor rail line in southern Mexico, part of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec route linking two coasts.

The Latin American country that moves millions of tons of earth and creates a route that surpasses the Panama Canal

By Adrian Villellas
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January 30, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Artist illustration of a black hole merger emitting gravitational waves, shown as swirling light around a dark central horizon.

The loudest gravitational wave ever heard comes from 2025 and tests Hawking’s rule with almost absurd precision

By ECONEWS
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January 30, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Multi-level treehouse built around a tall tree in a forest, with a wooden spiral staircase and shingled, cabin-like exterior.

A man spent months in silence in the forest and built a multi-level tree house with his own hands, complete with a spiral staircase, tin roofs, and finishes worthy of a luxury cabin… without anyone’s help

By Adrian Villellas
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January 30, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Bright rocket plume streaks across the twilight sky above a city, a reminder of rising launch activity and debris risk.

FAA safety alert tells airlines to plan for space debris from rocket failures after a SpaceX Starship explosion

By ECONEWS
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January 29, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Composite image showing a misty forest with migrating birds and an inset photo of a small drone on the ground.

A dispute over drones between North Korea and South Korea could threaten one of Asia’s last natural refuges, where bears, deer, and cranes survive amid mines and barbed wire

By ECONEWS
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January 29, 2026 at 5:00 PM
A barge moves along the Mississippi River near sandbars and a growing crevasse delta in coastal Louisiana.

As the Mississippi breaks into giant “cracks” near the delta, Louisiana is gaining new land… but also risking drinking water and the world’s grain route

By Adrian Villellas
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January 29, 2026 at 3:00 PM
A US president signs an emergency order at the Resolute Desk as aides stand nearby in the Oval Office.

Trump declares a national emergency to shield $2.5 billion in Venezuelan oil revenue from creditors

By ECONEWS
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January 29, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Vanguard Cave on Gibraltar’s Mediterranean cliffs, where archaeologists found a chamber sealed for 40,000 years with Neanderthal clues.

Archaeologists open a chamber sealed for 40,000 years, and what they find beneath the sand in Gibraltar changes what we thought we knew about Neanderthals: coastal hunters, glue makers, and Paleolithic artists

By ECONEWS
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January 29, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Tiny multicolored plastic fragments and particles on a human hand, illustrating microplastics detected in human brain tissue.

Scientists find microplastics inside the human brain for the first time… and they’re not alone: there are more than in the liver and kidneys combined

By Adrian Villellas
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January 29, 2026 at 9:12 AM
Swan trapped in brush beside train tracks in Massapequa, New York, as a commuter train passes in the background

A couple found a white lump among some branches and rails on a trail in New York and thought it was trash next to the tracks, but it was a swan trapped far from the water

By Adrian Villellas
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January 29, 2026 at 8:45 AM
A US Air Force F-117 Nighthawk stealth aircraft flies over the Nevada desert during a training mission.

The poacher that refuses to die: why the United States will keep the F-117 flying until 2034 and how its training missions could be leaving an invisible climate footprint

By ECONEWS
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January 29, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Teen engineering student inspects a compact modular micro house designed to shelter homeless people and reduce housing emissions.

An 18-year-old designs a micro-house that can be assembled in a day and will move into it for 12 months to test it out: his plan is for it to serve as a real shelter for homeless people and reduce emissions

By ECONEWS
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January 28, 2026 at 3:00 PM
A reconstructed Viking turf house at the L’Anse aux Meadows archaeological site in Newfoundland, Canada.

It wasn’t Columbus, nor was it a myth: a solar storm in the year 993 left its mark on trees… and a thousand years later helped discover the exact year the Vikings arrived in America

By ECONEWS
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January 28, 2026 at 10:15 AM
A sleek new smartphone with a large camera module resting on a surface, highlighting modern mobile design.

The “Nokia” phone with a 230 MP camera and 7,000 mAh battery: what experts warn about

By ECONEWS
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January 27, 2026 at 6:30 PM
A giant tortoise grazing on Española Island greenery to restore the natural savanna ecosystem.

From 15 survivors to more than 2,300: giant tortoises have returned to Española and are now “reprogramming” the island, slowing down scrub growth and pushing the landscape toward a more open savanna

By Adrian Villellas
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January 27, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Inset image points to faint interstellar object 3I/ATLAS against a star field, shown with a blue glow and an arrow marking its position.

The countdown has begun: in a few days, the truth about 3I/ATLAS will be revealed

By ECONEWS
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January 27, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Physicists in Stuttgart examine optical equipment used to teleport quantum information between photons in a laboratory experiment.

In a laboratory, they manage to teleport quantum information between photons born in different crystals, and the technical detail that makes this possible sounds like the internet of the future

By ECONEWS
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January 27, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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