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An aerial view of a harvested farm field in Bohemia with overlaid digital infrared highlights showing the outlines of prehistoric long barrows.

Archaeologists were exploring ordinary farmland in Central Europe, and what they found underground forces us to rethink 5,000 years of funerary history

By Adrian Villellas

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April 18, 2026 at 3:00 PM

A satellite-style map of the Barents Sea showing warm Atlantic currents flowing north into the Arctic Ocean.

A study explains why more warm Atlantic water is entering the Arctic through the Barents Sea

By ECONEWS

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April 18, 2026 at 12:30 PM

A fossilized impression of a frond-like Charnia organism found at the Inner Meadow site in Newfoundland.

A 551-million-year-old site is forcing us to rewrite our understanding of an early mass extinction, and the loss of life may have been much greater than previously thought

By Adrian Villellas

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April 18, 2026 at 10:15 AM

Rocky shoreline and sea view facing a large mountain across the Strait of Gibraltar, illustrating the tectonic zone linked to Iberia’s slow geological movement.

The Iberian Peninsula is slowly rotating clockwise as Africa pushes toward Europe, a study finds

By Adrian Villellas

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April 18, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Bed bug near a damp surface avoiding contact with water

Bed bugs fear something very common in the home, and science has just discovered that water makes them flee at full speed

By ECONEWS

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April 17, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Radar view of Venus showing rugged volcanic terrain near Nyx Mons, the region linked to a newly studied underground void.

What appeared to be an old, forgotten file from the Magellan probe, launched in 1990, has turned out to reveal one of the strangest discoveries about Venus: an empty underground tunnel approximately 1 kilometer wide

By ECONEWS

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April 16, 2026 at 5:00 PM

View from the International Space Station showing the Milky Way above Earth’s glowing green and purple aurora along the horizon.

A NASA astronaut points his camera from the Space Station and turns in-orbit experiments into images so strange they look like art from another world

By ECONEWS

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April 16, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Illustration of Sue the Tyrannosaurus rex, the famous Field Museum specimen used in research on how T. rex may have moved with a toe-first step.

They reexamined the world’s largest T. rex skeleton and discovered something that forces us to rethink the true life of prehistory’s most feared predator

By Adrian Villellas

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April 15, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Scientists examine the Maryborough meteorite at Melbourne Museum after confirming the heavy stone found in Australia was a meteorite.

He thought he had struck gold in Australia, but for years he had held something far more improbable in his hands: a fragment of the solar system that predates our planet

By Adrian Villellas

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April 15, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Side-by-side view of WOH G64 showing a blurred central star and a larger illustration of the massive star surrounded by a thick cocoon of gas and dust.

WOH G64, one of the largest known stars, may be turning into a yellow hypergiant, astronomers say

By ECONEWS

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April 15, 2026 at 12:30 PM

A small, transparent container holding a fragment of meteorite covered in a microscopic fungal network, floating in a laboratory setting.

No drills, no lasers, no giant robots: the latest outlandish idea in space mining involves a box the size of a Tupperware container and microbes capable of extracting metals from a meteorite in orbit

By Adrian Villellas

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April 15, 2026 at 10:15 AM

A colorful digital rendering of a human brain with glowing lines highlighting neural connections.

A comprehensive study identifies four ages at which the brain changes course, and one of them is much more surprising than expected

By ECONEWS

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April 15, 2026 at 8:45 AM

A close-up view of microscopic fungus cultures growing on a dark, rough meteorite fragment inside a laboratory setting.

NASA is testing an idea in orbit that once seemed like science fiction and has discovered that a fungus can extract valuable metals from space rocks 400 kilometers above Earth

By Adrian Villellas

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April 15, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Volcanic terrain near Pavonis Mons on Mars showing lava flows and cone structures from evolving magma system

Scientists have discovered that a “young” region of Mars did not cool as quickly as previously thought, and that its magmatic system continued to evolve quietly for millions of years

By Adrian Villellas

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April 14, 2026 at 5:00 PM

A close-up view of a 183-million-year-old ammonite fossil with a golden metallic sheen embedded in dark black shale.

A 183-million-year-old black rock is broken open in Germany, and the golden sheen of this Jurassic fossil turns out to be something other than what everyone had believed for decades

By Adrian Villellas

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April 14, 2026 at 10:15 AM

Real photo of comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS crossing the night sky with a long bright tail

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is real, but AI chatbots and social media spread false claims about aliens

By Adrian Villellas

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April 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Boxwork ridge patterns on Mars surface explored by Curiosity rover in Gale Crater

NASA has finally solved the mystery of the giant spiderwebs observed on Mars since 2006, and Curiosity’s findings have reignited the big question of how long water remained underground

By Adrian Villellas

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April 13, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Simulation of AI models GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 3 Flash escalating a fictional nuclear crisis.

A researcher pits GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 3 Flash against each other in a fictional nuclear war, and what unfolds over 329 turns suggests that machines might be more ruthless than humans

By ECONEWS

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April 13, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Tea bags may release tiny plastics into hot tea, but scientists say the real answer depends on how the particles are measured.

What seemed like the most innocent routine of the day—boiling water and letting a tea bag steep for a few minutes—has become a major cause for concern, as some studies now estimate that a single cup of tea contains up to 14.7 billion microplastics and nanoplastics

By Adrian Villellas

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April 11, 2026 at 5:03 AM

A Starlink satellite dish terminal set up in a field to provide internet access during wartime operations.

Ukraine activates a filter that blocks unauthorized Starlink signals, and the war sparks an even bigger battle over the more than 10,000 satellites already orbiting Earth

By Adrian Villellas

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April 10, 2026 at 5:00 PM

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Archaeologists were exploring ordinary farmland in Central Europe, and what they found underground forces us to rethink 5,000 years of funerary history

A study explains why more warm Atlantic water is entering the Arctic through the Barents Sea

A 551-million-year-old site is forcing us to rewrite our understanding of an early mass extinction, and the loss of life may have been much greater than previously thought

The Iberian Peninsula is slowly rotating clockwise as Africa pushes toward Europe, a study finds

Bed bugs fear something very common in the home, and science has just discovered that water makes them flee at full speed

What appeared to be an old, forgotten file from the Magellan probe, launched in 1990, has turned out to reveal one of the strangest discoveries about Venus: an empty underground tunnel approximately 1 kilometer wide

A NASA astronaut points his camera from the Space Station and turns in-orbit experiments into images so strange they look like art from another world

They reexamined the world’s largest T. rex skeleton and discovered something that forces us to rethink the true life of prehistory’s most feared predator

He thought he had struck gold in Australia, but for years he had held something far more improbable in his hands: a fragment of the solar system that predates our planet

WOH G64, one of the largest known stars, may be turning into a yellow hypergiant, astronomers say

No drills, no lasers, no giant robots: the latest outlandish idea in space mining involves a box the size of a Tupperware container and microbes capable of extracting metals from a meteorite in orbit

A comprehensive study identifies four ages at which the brain changes course, and one of them is much more surprising than expected

NASA is testing an idea in orbit that once seemed like science fiction and has discovered that a fungus can extract valuable metals from space rocks 400 kilometers above Earth

Scientists have discovered that a “young” region of Mars did not cool as quickly as previously thought, and that its magmatic system continued to evolve quietly for millions of years

A 183-million-year-old black rock is broken open in Germany, and the golden sheen of this Jurassic fossil turns out to be something other than what everyone had believed for decades

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is real, but AI chatbots and social media spread false claims about aliens

NASA has finally solved the mystery of the giant spiderwebs observed on Mars since 2006, and Curiosity’s findings have reignited the big question of how long water remained underground

A researcher pits GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 3 Flash against each other in a fictional nuclear war, and what unfolds over 329 turns suggests that machines might be more ruthless than humans

What seemed like the most innocent routine of the day—boiling water and letting a tea bag steep for a few minutes—has become a major cause for concern, as some studies now estimate that a single cup of tea contains up to 14.7 billion microplastics and nanoplastics

Ukraine activates a filter that blocks unauthorized Starlink signals, and the war sparks an even bigger battle over the more than 10,000 satellites already orbiting Earth

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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