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Microscopic image of Candidatus Sukunaarchaeum mirabile, a minimal genome archaeon discovered by Japanese scientists

It’s not a virus, it’s not a bacterium… it’s something stranger: Japanese scientists discover a life form that doesn’t fit into any known biological category

By Sonia Ramírez
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March 1, 2026 at 6:25 PM
NASA radar image revealing Camp Century, a Cold War nuclear base buried beneath Greenland’s ice sheet

It was buried under 30 meters of polar ice and had been missing since 1967: NASA unexpectedly finds an old secret nuclear test site in the middle of the Arctic

By Adrian Villellas
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March 1, 2026 at 6:29 AM
Illustration of the solar system passing through the Radcliffe Wave, a giant filament of gas and young stars in the Milky Way.

It wasn’t just a simple stroll through the galaxy: 14 million years ago, the solar system passed through a colossal wave of gas and stars that may have triggered the great Miocene glaciation

By ECONEWS
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February 28, 2026 at 1:33 PM
NASA Parker Solar Probe flying through the Sun’s corona during its record breaking close approach

An unprecedented view of the Sun is about to arrive: the Parker probe passed through the solar atmosphere at approximately 429,000 miles per hour (mph) and recorded data that could solve one of science’s oldest mysteries

By Sonia Ramírez
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February 28, 2026 at 8:56 AM
India SpaDeX satellites performing first in orbit docking maneuver developed by ISRO in 2025

India joins the most exclusive club in space: it has achieved its first docking between satellites in orbit and is already dreaming of having its own space station by 2035

By Sonia Ramírez
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February 28, 2026 at 7:50 AM
Illustration of asteroid 2024 YR4 approaching the Moon in a potential 2032 impact scenario

NASA and China warn that the Moon could be hit by a 60-meter rock and that the impact could trigger a meteor storm that would knock out the Internet, satellites, and GPS for years

By Adrian Villellas
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February 27, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Monte Conero limestone slab showing fossilized Cretaceous sea turtle trackways

The day when dozens of sea turtles panicked and fled at full speed under the sea 79 million years ago: Italian climbers have just found their perfectly preserved footprints after an avalanche caused by a prehistoric earthquake

By Sonia Ramírez
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February 27, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Archaeological remains of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio basilica uncovered beneath Piazza Andrea Costa

Excavating beneath an Italian square, they finally uncover Vitruvius’ lost building: the basilica described in 19 BC comes to life in the 21st century

By Adrian Villellas
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February 27, 2026 at 8:45 AM
CHIEF1900 hypergravity centrifuge installed underground at Zhejiang University, designed to simulate extreme gravitational forces.

China is building a giant hypergravity centrifuge capable of accelerating processes that take centuries to complete in nature

By Adrian Villellas
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February 26, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Ancient Aboriginal rock art showing a large seafaring vessel with human figures in northern Australia

Confirmed: a study of more than 2,400 genomes reveals that the first humans arrived in Australia 60,000 years ago… and that they may have coexisted with prehistoric “hobbits”

By ECONEWS
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February 25, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Ripe cloudberries growing in an Arctic bog, the octoploid berry studied for its complex hybrid genome.

It wasn’t just a rare fruit: the humble molt that Nansen took to the North Pole in 1893 could be one of the most complex natural hybrids ever studied, with DNA from at least three extinct species and an evolutionary history written in eight chromosomes that still baffles geneticists

By Adrian Villellas
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February 25, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Packaged processed foods and deli meats containing common chemical preservatives

These 12 common preservatives could increase the risk of cancer and type 2 diabetes

By Sonia Ramírez
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February 24, 2026 at 11:50 AM
12-year-old Texas student beside a homemade nuclear fusion device after detecting neutrons

A 12-year-old boy in Texas spends four years building a nuclear fusion device at home and manages to detect real neutrons

By Adrian Villellas
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February 24, 2026 at 10:49 AM
Quartz vein with gold deposits in dark rock, showing how earthquakes may help form giant gold nuggets

Earthquakes could be behind the formation of giant gold nuggets

By Adrian Villellas
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February 24, 2026 at 5:36 AM
Naturally mummified cheetah preserved inside a dry cave in northern Saudi Arabia

The discovery of 4,000-year-old mummified cheetahs in Saudi Arabia could lead to the recovery of a lost ecosystem

By ECONEWS
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February 23, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Satellite view of Jubbah oasis in Saudi Arabia’s Nafud Desert showing circular green irrigated fields amid orange dunes

NASA photographs a desert and finds mysterious circles in the heart of Saudi Arabia

By Adrian Villellas
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February 23, 2026 at 8:16 AM
Hand holding a plastic water bottle in a store aisle, highlighting concerns about microplastics in bottled water.

This study could make you stop drinking bottled water forever

By Adrian Villellas
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February 22, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Chestnut mining bee Andrena rehni on an American chestnut flower in a Syracuse research orchard

It looked like a normal bee in an orchard, but after a few seconds, a scientist realized she was seeing something that almost no one had ever seen in that area before

By ECONEWS
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February 22, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Starlet sea anemone Nematostella vectensis used in evolutionary biology research

A brainless creature from the bottom of the sea could hold the molecular trick that helped build the human body between 600 and 700 million years ago

By Sonia Ramírez
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February 21, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Baking soda and a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, the two ingredients commonly mixed into a paste to whiten stained grout lines.

The combination of baking soda and hydrogen peroxide that is so popular in 2026 seems like a magical and inexpensive solution, but experts warn that it depends greatly on where it is used and when it is discontinued

By Adrian Villellas
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February 21, 2026 at 6:30 AM
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