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Infrared-style image of U.S. forces boarding an oil tanker at sea during a pre-dawn seizure operation.

Assault before dawn in the Caribbean: Marines rappel from the USS Gerald R. Ford and seize the tanker Olina with 700,000 barrels on board

By ECONEWS
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January 22, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Steaming cup of black coffee in a glass mug on a saucer, illustrating heat loss and the arrow of time.

There is no such thing as a “quantum un-do button” in nature, and that limitation could explain why your coffee cools down but never reheats on its own

By Adrian Villellas
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January 22, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Older driver behind the wheel, illustrating how states are changing license renewal rules and testing for drivers over 70.

There is no federal law taking licenses from drivers over 70, but many states are changing their tests

By Adrian Villellas
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January 22, 2026 at 8:15 AM
No, the IRS is not paying $2,000 in January 2026: no new payment has been approved

No, the IRS is not paying $2,000 in January 2026: no new payment has been approved

By ECONEWS
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January 22, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Alarm clock over Social Security cards and U.S. flag symbolizing time-sensitive digital changes in Social Security payments.

Social Security’s digital overhaul: 24/7 online accounts, shorter waits and $17 billion in retroactive payments

By ECONEWS
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January 22, 2026 at 5:18 AM
Aerial view of a coastal water facility in California beside the Pacific Ocean, with industrial buildings, a smokestack, and intake lagoons.

California’s new water plan sounds like science fiction: plants that consume millions of tons of seawater and factories that convert wastewater into drinking water

By ECONEWS
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January 21, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Mother and daughter pose outside a seven room house built from thousands of recycled glass bottles in Itamaracá, Brazil

A mother and daughter in Brazil built a seven-room house with 8,000 glass bottles collected from beaches

By Adrian Villellas
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January 21, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Feral brumby horses grazing in Kosciuszko National Park after population cuts in Australia’s Snowy Mountains

Australia did the unthinkable in Kosciuszko: in just 12 months, it reduced the number of wild horses from 17,000 to 3,000… and the park is already changing color (literally)

By Adrian Villellas
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January 21, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Long row of older rooftop solar panels installed on a Swiss building, showing early-generation photovoltaic modules still in use.

These solar panels have been on Swiss rooftops for more than 30 years, and they are still delivering over 80% of their original output in Switzerland

By ECONEWS
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January 21, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Student archaeologist documents a red-ochre burial pit linked to a 5,400-year-old amber grave near Lake Onega, Russia.

A student picks up a fragment of fossilized resin, and suddenly invisible trade routes that crossed half of Europe 5,400 years ago appear

By ECONEWS
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January 21, 2026 at 11:34 AM
Gold coins spill from a rusty container in a freshly plowed Kentucky field as a farmer searches nearby.

A Kentucky farmer finds more than 800 Civil War-era coins worth over $3 million in his field

By Adrian Villellas
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January 21, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Worker loads fried chicken into trays at Frenchy’s in Houston, where two locations were recently deauthorized

Two Houston Frenchy’s Chicken locations lose the right to use the brand for not meeting standards

By Adrian Villellas
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January 21, 2026 at 7:18 AM
Thousands of small orange-and-black bumblebee catfish cluster and inch up wet rock beside a waterfall in Brazil.

It was first spotted by environmental police, and a week later science arrived. The video of orange-and-black fish climbing wet rock is already being called a historic discovery

By Adrian Villellas
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January 21, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Neolithic lakeside villagers work near a fire and hut while preparing tools and materials, illustrating birch bark tar use in daily life.

The black “chewing gum” that appeared in Neolithic villages concealed something unexpected, and scientists have finally managed to decipher it

By ECONEWS
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January 20, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Researcher uses a laptop in a grassy field while a utility vehicle and equipment sit in the background

Beneath the lawns in your neighborhood and cornfields lies a gigantic carbon “bank,” and a new study suggests that in some soils, it is emptying ten times faster than previously assumed

By Adrian Villellas
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January 20, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Satellite orbits above Arctic sea ice, illustrating Earth observation used to track magnetic north drift

They detected that the magnetic North Pole has crossed an invisible “border” in the Arctic, and the question is no longer whether it is moving, but what will happen when the “north” ceases to seem like a stable concept

By ECONEWS
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January 20, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Geologists examine drill core samples from the Wangu gold field in Hunan, China

China drills beneath the Wangu gold field and discovers a “treasure” of more than 1,000 tons that could be hidden 3,000 meters underground

By Adrian Villellas
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January 20, 2026 at 12:30 PM
U.S. Navy MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter flying over the ocean during carrier operations

Two United States Navy aircraft plunged into the sea within just 30 minutes off an aircraft carrier in the South China Sea, setting off alarm bells

By Adrian Villellas
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January 20, 2026 at 8:15 AM
Illustration of a woolly mammoth standing on Arctic ice, symbolizing a study that reclassified “young mammoth” bones as whales.

The story seemed perfect: for 70 years, these vertebrae were touted as the “youngest mammoth” in Alaska, and the twist comes when science decides to review them from scratch

By Adrian Villellas
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January 20, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Massive offshore wind turbine being installed at sea near Hainan, with other turbines visible in the distance.

China has brought a giant offshore wind turbine of up to 20 MW online off the coast of Hainan, and the debate is not just about energy but about what may be changing in the air around it

By ECONEWS
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January 19, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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