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Illustration of a human brain with highlighted neural tissue and an inset microscopy image, representing microplastics detected in brain samples.

Your brain may be accumulating microplastics, and the big question is no longer whether they are there, but what they might be doing

By Adrian Villellas
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February 13, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Woolly mammoth with long curved tusks, a heavyweight used to model how slow giant animals could move

The 75-ton Argentinosaurus could not run at all, and the study states that they were slow and heavy and barely exceeded 6 miles per hour

By Adrian Villellas
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February 12, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Person taking an ice cold shower as researchers study effects of cold water immersion on the body

At first, you feel a brutal impact… but 12 hours later, something changes: this is what really happens to your body after showering with ice-cold water, according to science

By Sonia Ramírez
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February 12, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Reconstruction of a 508-million-year-old Cambrian sea worm with long spines and tentacles, after the head mix-up was corrected.

A 508-million-year-old worm from the primordial ocean, invisible teeth, and an embarrassing mistake: in 1977, they believed it walked on spikes… in 2015, they discovered that it wasn’t even its head

By ECONEWS
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February 12, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Older adult sleeping in bed at night, illustrating how sleep duration affects inflammation and health in later life

What happens inside the body when older people sleep too little (or too much) and how that could hasten their death

By Sonia Ramírez
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February 12, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Perfectly preserved 18th century explorer ship discovered on the seafloor off the coast of Australia

An exploration ship lost 250 years ago has just been found perfectly preserved off the coast of Australia, like a time capsule from the past

By ECONEWS
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February 12, 2026 at 8:15 AM
Archaeologists excavate medieval skeletons beneath the chapel at the Tower of London during a major archaeological dig

Archaeologists discover forgotten burials containing medieval skeletons beneath the chapel at the Tower of London… and some may be victims of the Black Death

By Sonia Ramírez
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February 12, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Portable microscope captures stomata opening and closing on a living plant leaf under changing light conditions

For centuries, leaves have made a vital decision in milliseconds… now, scientists, with a portable microscope, have managed to capture that moment and see it for the first time

By Adrian Villellas
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February 11, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Bottles of soda and sugar-free drinks on a supermarket shelf, highlighting concerns about erythritol and vascular health.

The “zero-calorie” sweetener that could affect the cells that protect your brain

By Kevin Montien
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February 11, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Copper Age shell beads recovered from a 5,000 year old female burial at the Montelirio tholos in Spain

270,000 seashells found in a 5,000-year-old female grave reveal what female power was like in the Copper Age, leaving scientists speechless

By ECONEWS
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February 11, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Close-up of Martian soil and rock texture tied to Perseverance’s cached samples as Mars Sample Return plans stall

The mission to bring Earth’s most valuable rocks from Mars is considered a failure, and now China could get there first with a return in 2031

By Adrian Villellas
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February 11, 2026 at 11:42 AM
Visualization of cosmic expansion explained by geometry without invoking dark energy

For 25 years, we believed that 70% of the universe was “dark energy”… but this new theory could prove that it was all a mistake

By Sonia Ramírez
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February 11, 2026 at 9:21 AM
NASA’s Space Launch System rocket for Artemis II rolls out of the Vehicle Assembly Building toward Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center

NASA is already moving its giant rocket to platform 39B, and the manned return to the Moon begins with a 4-mile journey at walking pace

By Adrian Villellas
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February 11, 2026 at 9:19 AM
Distant baby galaxy Y1 forming stars at an extreme rate in the early universe, observed with the ALMA telescope

Astronomers discover a baby galaxy in turbo mode: it converts more than 180 “suns” of gas per year into new stars… while ours barely reaches 1

By Adrian Villellas
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February 11, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Hyper-realistic facial reconstruction of an Ice Age hunter-gatherer beside a frontal view of an ancient human skull.

A group of researchers compared the DNA of Italian centenarians with prehistoric genomes… and what they discovered left them stunned: the secret to living to 100 could lie in genes from 14,000 years ago

By ECONEWS
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February 10, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Visualization of two electrons becoming quantum entangled over an ultrafast attosecond timescale

The surprise in physics: two electrons do not become entangled “all at once,” but rather the correlation forms first and then the temporal signature appears in the leak

By Sonia Ramírez
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February 10, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Craniofacial reconstruction on display at Hualongdong site museum in Anhui, China, based on a 300,000-year-old human fossil.

A “pre-sapiens” in China 300,000 years ago: a juvenile jawbone that blends archaic traits with nearly modern features

By ECONEWS
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February 10, 2026 at 9:35 AM
Folded ancient rock layers in South Africa where researchers used AI to detect chemical traces linked to early microbial life.

They detected signs of microbes almost as old as the Earth

By Adrian Villellas
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February 10, 2026 at 6:30 AM
A bright orange nurse shark alongside a fishing boat off Costa Rica, documented as a rare pigment case linked to xanthism and possible albinism.

A nearly neon-orange nurse shark was accidentally caught off the coast of Costa Rica, and scientists believe it may be the first documented case involving a “double” pigment change

By Adrian Villellas
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February 9, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Clams and tube worms clustered around methane seeps on the seafloor nearly 10,000 meters below the ocean surface

Science has just discovered “oases” of clams and tube worms at a depth of 9,533 meters, where sunlight does not exist and yet life thrives in abundance

By ECONEWS
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February 9, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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