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Excavation site in the Netherlands where workers uncovered possible remains of a medieval trading ship

Construction work in the Netherlands suddenly uncovers a medieval ship: the “shell” buried underground could change what we believed about trade in that era

By ECONEWS

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May 20, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Archaeological remains and Bronze Age burial artifacts from a Serbian tomb dated using ancient human teeth

Serbia: a 4,600-year-old tomb with a gold diadem and three teeth is discovered… and that combination is disrupting the Bronze Age timeline

By ECONEWS

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May 20, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Greenland shark swimming in deep Arctic waters during a longevity and marine biology study

The “399-year-old” Greenland shark: what the study actually found about its age

By ECONEWS

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May 19, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Mammatus clouds forming over Qatar during unstable weather and thunderstorm activity in March 2026

Qatar, March 2026: “Mammatus clouds” appear in the sky, and the explanation is not as innocent as it seems… (and the detail that has meteorologists worried)

By ECONEWS

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May 19, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Green Commiphora branch grown from the ancient Sheba seed linked to Judea’s lost perfume plant mystery.

The plant that exuded an aroma of “power” and turned ancient Judea into a perfume superpower… and the detail (from the 1st century) that explains why it vanished without a trace

By ECONEWS

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May 18, 2026 at 10:15 AM

Massive stone blocks recovered underwater near the ruins of the ancient Lighthouse of Alexandria

Archaeologists recover a treasure from the bottom of the sea linked to one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, reopening the mystery of a lost city hidden for centuries

By ECONEWS

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May 16, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Medieval Lootsi cog shipwreck uncovered at a construction site in Tallinn, Estonia

In 2022, during construction work on a building in Tallinn, a 24-meter-long medieval ship was discovered just 1.5 meters below the pavement; a deeply disturbing clue suggests that its crew did not even have time to gather their belongings

By ECONEWS

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May 15, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Visualization of the Milky Way and nearby galaxies embedded in a large dark matter sheet structure

Scientists discover that the Milky Way may be floating on a dark-matter sheet millions of light-years wide, changing the map of our galaxy’s hidden support

By ECONEWS

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May 15, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Soil bacteria research in Oaxaca linked to sustainable agriculture and natural biofertilizer development

UNAM scientists discover an ‘army’ of bacteria in Mexico with the potential to help agriculture, and the microscopic force could work where chemicals fail

By ECONEWS

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May 14, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Ancient whale bones in Alaska initially believed to belong to late-surviving woolly mammoths

For years they were believed to be the last mammoth bones, until scientists discovered they were whales found 400 kilometers from the coast

By ECONEWS

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May 14, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Reconstruction of early Homo sapiens linked to new African origin and climate evolution research

Scientists believe they have identified the birthplace of Homo sapiens with new precision, combining fossils, climate, and evolution to redraw the first chapter of our species

By ECONEWS

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May 14, 2026 at 10:15 AM

Naked mole-rat queen with pups in a colony setting, illustrating reproduction and social structure.

Naked mole-rat queens are famous for bloody power struggles, but new research shows they can also transfer power peacefully when a colony changes from within

By Adrian Villellas

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May 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Geothermal steam rising over a rocky landscape, illustrating research on hidden magma beneath Tuscany.

Scientists have found 6,000 cubic kilometers of magma beneath Tuscany, a Yellowstone-scale reservoir hidden under one of Europe’s calmest-looking landscapes

By ECONEWS

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May 13, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Illustration of Earth’s magnetic field transferring atmospheric particles toward the Moon

The Earth may have been “fertilizing” the Moon for billions of years, and one study suggests that the magnetic field may have acted as a highway for key elements

By ECONEWS

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May 13, 2026 at 10:15 AM

Aerial view of Mars terrain showing a shelf-like formation linked to a possible ancient northern ocean

A ‘bathtub ring’ on Mars may be the strongest clue yet that an ancient ocean once covered a third of the Red Planet

By Adrian Villellas

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May 12, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Illustration of asteroid Apophis during its close flyby of Earth scheduled for April 2029

NASA says the ‘God of Chaos’ asteroid will pass closer than many satellites in 2029, and the rare flyby will be visible without a telescope

By ECONEWS

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May 12, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Ancient clay tablet with cuneiform writing, similar to the tablets decoded in Denmark’s Hidden Treasures project.

A 4,000-year-old object stored in Denmark may preserve one of humanity’s earliest written traces of everyday administration, and its silence lasted millennia

By ECONEWS

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May 12, 2026 at 10:15 AM

Blue rod-shaped bacteria floating in a dark microscopic scene, representing synthetic mirror bacteria research.

Scientists warn that synthetic mirror bacteria could slip past natural defenses, and the threat is not a virus but a form of life built backwards

By Adrian Villellas

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May 12, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Visualization of galaxy clusters used in the largest cosmic gravity test supporting Einstein’s theory of gravity

The largest test of gravity on cosmic scales confirms Newton and Einstein and points to dark matter

By ECONEWS

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May 11, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Golden retriever involved in a genetics study linking canine emotional traits to human-related genes

A genetic study of 1,343 golden retrievers has found genes tied to emotions that also appear in humans, suggesting dogs may share more of our inner world than expected

By ECONEWS

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May 11, 2026 at 3:00 PM

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Construction work in the Netherlands suddenly uncovers a medieval ship: the “shell” buried underground could change what we believed about trade in that era

Serbia: a 4,600-year-old tomb with a gold diadem and three teeth is discovered… and that combination is disrupting the Bronze Age timeline

The “399-year-old” Greenland shark: what the study actually found about its age

Qatar, March 2026: “Mammatus clouds” appear in the sky, and the explanation is not as innocent as it seems… (and the detail that has meteorologists worried)

The plant that exuded an aroma of “power” and turned ancient Judea into a perfume superpower… and the detail (from the 1st century) that explains why it vanished without a trace

Archaeologists recover a treasure from the bottom of the sea linked to one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, reopening the mystery of a lost city hidden for centuries

In 2022, during construction work on a building in Tallinn, a 24-meter-long medieval ship was discovered just 1.5 meters below the pavement; a deeply disturbing clue suggests that its crew did not even have time to gather their belongings

Scientists discover that the Milky Way may be floating on a dark-matter sheet millions of light-years wide, changing the map of our galaxy’s hidden support

UNAM scientists discover an ‘army’ of bacteria in Mexico with the potential to help agriculture, and the microscopic force could work where chemicals fail

For years they were believed to be the last mammoth bones, until scientists discovered they were whales found 400 kilometers from the coast

Scientists believe they have identified the birthplace of Homo sapiens with new precision, combining fossils, climate, and evolution to redraw the first chapter of our species

Naked mole-rat queens are famous for bloody power struggles, but new research shows they can also transfer power peacefully when a colony changes from within

Scientists have found 6,000 cubic kilometers of magma beneath Tuscany, a Yellowstone-scale reservoir hidden under one of Europe’s calmest-looking landscapes

The Earth may have been “fertilizing” the Moon for billions of years, and one study suggests that the magnetic field may have acted as a highway for key elements

A ‘bathtub ring’ on Mars may be the strongest clue yet that an ancient ocean once covered a third of the Red Planet

NASA says the ‘God of Chaos’ asteroid will pass closer than many satellites in 2029, and the rare flyby will be visible without a telescope

A 4,000-year-old object stored in Denmark may preserve one of humanity’s earliest written traces of everyday administration, and its silence lasted millennia

Scientists warn that synthetic mirror bacteria could slip past natural defenses, and the threat is not a virus but a form of life built backwards

The largest test of gravity on cosmic scales confirms Newton and Einstein and points to dark matter

A genetic study of 1,343 golden retrievers has found genes tied to emotions that also appear in humans, suggesting dogs may share more of our inner world than expected

In Romania’s Brașov County, brown bears number about 1,329 by a national genetic estimate, the highest density of any county, and one bear relocated from Poiana Brașov was back within 3 days

More than 40 Magellanic penguins born in captivity arrived by court order from Mar del Plata at a river island in Argentina’s Río Negro province, and at first they had not explored even a third of their new home

In Japan, researchers led by Tohoku University used an inexpensive blue pigment to turn carbon dioxide into methane with 79.5% Faradaic efficiency, and methane selectivity stayed above 60% for about 80 hours

At 8.2 feet on Oct. 13, the Lake Constance water level in Konstanz, Germany, fell below a 1947 record for the date, and it now sits 10 inches under last winter’s low

A simulated AMOC collapse in an unreviewed preprint cut wheat, corn and rice harvests in Germany and Ukraine by roughly 16 to 19 percent, and cereal prices could climb up to 40 percent in the worst case

A landslide in Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord sent a tsunami 1,578 feet up the opposite wall, and a Science study found small tremors striking every 30 to 60 seconds in the hours before the collapse

A company won a mining license for a magnesium deposit it estimates at more than 50 million metric tons near Rășinari, in Romania’s Sibiu County, and the EU gets 97 percent of its magnesium from China

Leap seconds will end on May 20, 2027, under a rule the General Conference on Weights and Measures adopted in Versailles, France, and a new study finds Earth’s solid surface turning slightly rounder as polar ground rises

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