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Archaeologist examining a centuries-old wooden shipwreck uncovered during construction work in Sweden

Archaeologists find six shipwrecks from the Middle Ages to the 1600s under Varberg, Sweden, during a rail tunnel project

By Adrian Villellas

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May 5, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Fossil of a small dinosaur from South Korea with visible bones and CT scan reconstruction

An adorable dinosaur chick has been discovered in South Korea and named Dooly, but behind the cartoon name lies a fossil that could change its ancient lineage

By Adrian Villellas

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May 5, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Infrared telescope images showing brightness changes around Gaia20ehk between 2018 and 2024, indicating a possible planetary collision

Astronomers may have witnessed two planets colliding in space, and the event is so rare that it could rewrite how we understand the violent birth of solar systems

By ECONEWS

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May 5, 2026 at 10:15 AM

Fresh yams displayed as a nutritious tuber linked to potential brain health and memory benefits

Yams could support memory and brain health, according to early studies on the compound diosgenin

By ECONEWS

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May 4, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Reconstruction of Doggerland landscape with forests and rivers connecting ancient Europe and Britain before submersion

Ancient DNA from the North Sea reveals a lost forest beneath the waves, and suggests that 16,000 years ago Europe and Britain were still part of a vanished world

By ECONEWS

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May 4, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Visualization of space data analysis showing stars and variable objects detected using artificial intelligence

High school student Matteo Paz used artificial intelligence to find 1.5 million unknown objects in NASA’s NEOWISE data

By ECONEWS

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May 4, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Large cast-iron cannon unearthed during construction work in Hull England after being buried for centuries

Construction workers in northern England were digging through ordinary ground when they uncovered a 2,200-pound cannon that may have been buried for more than 300 years

By Adrian Villellas

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May 4, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Deep-sea sleeper shark captured on camera in the Antarctic Ocean near the seafloor in near-freezing water

An underwater camera has filmed a shark in Antarctic Ocean for what may be the first time, and the unexpected sighting is forcing scientists to redraw a frozen boundary

By ECONEWS

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May 4, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Artist's impression of a rocky super-Earth exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf star in the GJ 887 system.

A super-Earth has been discovered just 10 light-years away, which could harbor an atmosphere and water, but reaching it with current technology would take us about 15,000 years

By ECONEWS

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May 3, 2026 at 6:30 PM

nearly complete, crow-sized dinosaur fossil skeleton laid out on a table, highlighting its fragile and delicate bone structure.

A tiny dinosaur fossil has emerged from Patagonia after 90 million years, and its almost complete skeleton may finally explain one of prehistory’s strangest theropod families

By Adrian Villellas

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May 3, 2026 at 10:15 AM

Night sky filled with stars representing astronomical observations and alerts detected by the Rubin Observatory

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory issues 800,000 alerts in one night before starting its 10-year sky survey

By Adrian Villellas

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May 3, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Cat midair twisting body during a fall, demonstrating how its flexible spine helps it land on its feet

A Yamaguchi University study explains how cats land on their feet: a flexible front spine and a stiff rear

By ECONEWS

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May 2, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Prehistoric pottery with charred food residue showing evidence of ancient European hunter-gatherer meals with fish and wild plants

The diet of hunter-gatherers in Europe thousands of years ago was far more varied, rich, and appetizing than we had been led to believe for decades

By Adrian Villellas

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May 2, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Viscoelastic slime toy showing liquid and solid behavior when stretched and impacted

What appeared to be a simple “snot” toy that captivated children in the 1980s and 1990s was, in fact, a fluid that stretches, wrinkles, and hardens, and is capable of behaving like both a liquid and a solid at the same time

By Adrian Villellas

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May 2, 2026 at 12:07 PM

NASA Van Allen Probe A reentering Earth’s atmosphere over the Pacific after years studying radiation belts

After 14 years in space, a NASA probe is about to return to Earth in the least graceful way possible, but there is no real cause for alarm

By ECONEWS

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May 2, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Two researchers smiling in a laboratory setting, with one pointing to a microscope and computer monitor displaying cryopreserved brain cells.

For the first time, scientists have managed to restore electrical activity in a frozen mouse brain, and that single sentence is enough to spark curiosity, a sense of wonder, and many questions

By Adrian Villellas

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May 2, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Visualization of particle collision tracks used to identify the Xi-cc-plus baryon in a high-energy physics detector

CERN has detected a particle similar to a proton, but about four times heavier, and so rare that detecting it has been much more complicated than it seems

By ECONEWS

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May 1, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Chest CT scan highlighting the thymus gland and its structure used to assess immune system health in adults

There is a small organ in your body that almost no one talks about, and it turns out it might be much more important to your immune system than we have been led to believe for years

By ECONEWS

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May 1, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Artistic visualization of multiple exoplanets in habitable zones identified as candidates for future life detection studies

There is already a list of 45 planets that could come in handy if Earth were to find itself in a truly dire situation, and that number gives us plenty of room to dream up a Plan B.

By ECONEWS

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May 1, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Atomic-scale image of a carbon ring molecule with half Möbius electron topology mapped using scanning probe microscopy

IBM and university researchers create a molecule whose electrons follow a “half-Möbius” twist

By ECONEWS

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May 1, 2026 at 6:30 AM

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Archaeologists find six shipwrecks from the Middle Ages to the 1600s under Varberg, Sweden, during a rail tunnel project

An adorable dinosaur chick has been discovered in South Korea and named Dooly, but behind the cartoon name lies a fossil that could change its ancient lineage

Astronomers may have witnessed two planets colliding in space, and the event is so rare that it could rewrite how we understand the violent birth of solar systems

Yams could support memory and brain health, according to early studies on the compound diosgenin

Ancient DNA from the North Sea reveals a lost forest beneath the waves, and suggests that 16,000 years ago Europe and Britain were still part of a vanished world

High school student Matteo Paz used artificial intelligence to find 1.5 million unknown objects in NASA’s NEOWISE data

Construction workers in northern England were digging through ordinary ground when they uncovered a 2,200-pound cannon that may have been buried for more than 300 years

An underwater camera has filmed a shark in Antarctic Ocean for what may be the first time, and the unexpected sighting is forcing scientists to redraw a frozen boundary

A super-Earth has been discovered just 10 light-years away, which could harbor an atmosphere and water, but reaching it with current technology would take us about 15,000 years

A tiny dinosaur fossil has emerged from Patagonia after 90 million years, and its almost complete skeleton may finally explain one of prehistory’s strangest theropod families

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory issues 800,000 alerts in one night before starting its 10-year sky survey

A Yamaguchi University study explains how cats land on their feet: a flexible front spine and a stiff rear

The diet of hunter-gatherers in Europe thousands of years ago was far more varied, rich, and appetizing than we had been led to believe for decades

What appeared to be a simple “snot” toy that captivated children in the 1980s and 1990s was, in fact, a fluid that stretches, wrinkles, and hardens, and is capable of behaving like both a liquid and a solid at the same time

After 14 years in space, a NASA probe is about to return to Earth in the least graceful way possible, but there is no real cause for alarm

For the first time, scientists have managed to restore electrical activity in a frozen mouse brain, and that single sentence is enough to spark curiosity, a sense of wonder, and many questions

CERN has detected a particle similar to a proton, but about four times heavier, and so rare that detecting it has been much more complicated than it seems

There is a small organ in your body that almost no one talks about, and it turns out it might be much more important to your immune system than we have been led to believe for years

There is already a list of 45 planets that could come in handy if Earth were to find itself in a truly dire situation, and that number gives us plenty of room to dream up a Plan B.

IBM and university researchers create a molecule whose electrons follow a “half-Möbius” twist

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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