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In Science, ECOnews reports on new discoveries in geology, paleontology, physics, space, health and the natural world. We explain the latest studies from universities and labs worldwide in plain language.

A high-resolution LiDAR digital terrain model of the hills near Córdoba, showing the rectangular outlines of a buried medieval city.

For centuries, it was just a legend of Al-Andalus, but now a LiDAR scanner is pointing toward Córdoba for the first time and suggesting that the lost city of Almanzor could be located here

By Adrian Villellas

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March 27, 2026 at 10:15 AM

School of blue fish with yellow tails swimming in open ocean, illustrating the marine life now threatened by long-term ocean warming

A study conducted between 1993 and 2021 on 33,000 fish populations raises a very serious warning: for every 0.1°C of ocean warming per decade, marine life declines by 7.2%, and scientists are already talking about a “surprising and deeply worrying” loss

By ECONEWS

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March 27, 2026 at 8:45 AM

View of the Strait of Gibraltar, the narrow waterway between Spain and Morocco now at the center of a study about future subduction

The Strait of Gibraltar is about to disappear

By Adrian Villellas

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March 27, 2026 at 6:30 AM

A conceptual visualization of an Einstein-Rosen bridge as a mirror-image connection between two opposing arrows of time in curved spacetime.

Wormholes are not shortcuts through the universe, but bridges between the future and the past

By ECONEWS

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March 26, 2026 at 5:00 PM

A view inside the 35-meter-long Ice Memory sanctuary, a snow-carved vault in Antarctica containing rows of archived mountain ice cores.

They dig a “cave” under the snow in Antarctica and create a natural refrigerator at -50 °C that could preserve the Earth’s climate for centuries

By Adrian Villellas

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March 26, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Neuroscientist Louisa Nicola explaining the physiological benefits of frequent movement breaks and squats for brain health and glucose control.

Neuroscientist Louisa Nicola’s squat advice: what the study on breaking up sitting time really found

By Adrian Villellas

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March 26, 2026 at 8:45 AM

A specialized hot-water drill system and sediment coring rig positioned on the vast, flat expanse of the Crary Ice Rise in West Antarctica.

Scientists drill through 523 meters of ice at Crary Ice Rise to recover 23 million years of Antarctic climate history

By Adrian Villellas

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March 25, 2026 at 5:00 PM

A high-resolution macro photograph of a Hallucigenia fossil from the Burgess Shale, showing its signature spikes and tubular body.

The specimen they described in 1977 returns to the scene almost 50 years later and solves the mystery of the diet of the ocean’s strangest creature

By Adrian Villellas

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March 25, 2026 at 6:30 AM

NASA Artemis II astronauts standing beside the Orion spacecraft during mission preparations for the crewed flight around the Moon

NASA is once again “flying around the Moon” with four astronauts and a 10-day mission, the first dress rehearsal since 1972, putting Artemis III in the spotlight

By ECONEWS

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March 24, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Golden sea silk fibers resting in a person’s hand, illustrating the rare marine material recreated by researchers in South Korea

South Korea recovers sea silk reserved for emperors and reveals why its golden sheen can last for centuries without fading

By ECONEWS

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March 24, 2026 at 10:45 AM

Cup of black coffee on a white saucer, illustrating the debate over drinking caffeine immediately after waking up

If you are someone who drinks coffee as soon as you open your eyes, be careful with this: cortisol levels skyrocket in the first 30 to 60 minutes, and caffeine can cause you to feel a “strange euphoria”

By Adrian Villellas

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March 23, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Ancient human footprints preserved in sediment at White Sands National Park, the controversial tracks dated to roughly 21,000 to 23,000 years ago

These human footprints found in the desert of the United States are between 21,000 and 23,000 years old and are generating considerable controversy among archaeologists

By ECONEWS

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March 23, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Satellite view of Lac Rouge and the surrounding landscape in northern Quebec before the lake’s sudden drainage event

An entire lake disappears overnight in northern Quebec, and the water travels more than 6.2 miles as if someone had pulled the plug

By Adrian Villellas

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March 23, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Laurent Simons in a physics lab in Antwerp as the 15-year-old researcher completes his doctorate in quantum physics

Laurent Simons earns a PhD in quantum physics at 15 in Antwerp and starts a second doctorate in medicine and AI in Munich

By Adrian Villellas

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March 23, 2026 at 5:21 AM

Ancient iron surgical tool used for trepanation discovered at an Iron Age Celtic site in Poland

A 2,300-year-old Celtic “medical instrument” has been found in Poland, and evidence points to cranial surgery being performed in the middle of the Iron Age

By ECONEWS

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March 22, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Cow using a broom to scratch its back, demonstrating tool use behavior observed by scientists

A cow scratches its back with a broom and proves that we have been wrong for more than 10,000 years

By ECONEWS

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March 22, 2026 at 12:30 PM

According to this new study, what lies at the center of the Milky Way may not be what it seemed

By ECONEWS

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March 22, 2026 at 5:33 AM

Microscopic view of laser-generated structures inside living human cells using two-photon polymerization technology

They shoot a laser at living human cells and manage to build three-dimensional structures inside them

By ECONEWS

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March 21, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Interstellar comet 3I ATLAS traveling through space with a glowing coma and tail releasing gas and dust

Why objects such as 3I/ATLAS could be the cheapest ticket to cross the galaxy

By ECONEWS

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March 21, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Portrait of James Watson, the American biologist and Nobel laureate who co-discovered the DNA double helix structure.

James Watson went from being a scientific icon to falling from grace in the public eye. The 1962 Nobel Prize winner for the discovery of DNA died on November 6, 2025, at the age of 97, after years of controversy for making baseless claims that Black people were less intelligent

By ECONEWS

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March 21, 2026 at 6:30 AM

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For centuries, it was just a legend of Al-Andalus, but now a LiDAR scanner is pointing toward Córdoba for the first time and suggesting that the lost city of Almanzor could be located here

A study conducted between 1993 and 2021 on 33,000 fish populations raises a very serious warning: for every 0.1°C of ocean warming per decade, marine life declines by 7.2%, and scientists are already talking about a “surprising and deeply worrying” loss

The Strait of Gibraltar is about to disappear

Wormholes are not shortcuts through the universe, but bridges between the future and the past

They dig a “cave” under the snow in Antarctica and create a natural refrigerator at -50 °C that could preserve the Earth’s climate for centuries

Neuroscientist Louisa Nicola’s squat advice: what the study on breaking up sitting time really found

Scientists drill through 523 meters of ice at Crary Ice Rise to recover 23 million years of Antarctic climate history

The specimen they described in 1977 returns to the scene almost 50 years later and solves the mystery of the diet of the ocean’s strangest creature

NASA is once again “flying around the Moon” with four astronauts and a 10-day mission, the first dress rehearsal since 1972, putting Artemis III in the spotlight

South Korea recovers sea silk reserved for emperors and reveals why its golden sheen can last for centuries without fading

If you are someone who drinks coffee as soon as you open your eyes, be careful with this: cortisol levels skyrocket in the first 30 to 60 minutes, and caffeine can cause you to feel a “strange euphoria”

These human footprints found in the desert of the United States are between 21,000 and 23,000 years old and are generating considerable controversy among archaeologists

An entire lake disappears overnight in northern Quebec, and the water travels more than 6.2 miles as if someone had pulled the plug

Laurent Simons earns a PhD in quantum physics at 15 in Antwerp and starts a second doctorate in medicine and AI in Munich

A 2,300-year-old Celtic “medical instrument” has been found in Poland, and evidence points to cranial surgery being performed in the middle of the Iron Age

A cow scratches its back with a broom and proves that we have been wrong for more than 10,000 years

According to this new study, what lies at the center of the Milky Way may not be what it seemed

They shoot a laser at living human cells and manage to build three-dimensional structures inside them

Why objects such as 3I/ATLAS could be the cheapest ticket to cross the galaxy

James Watson went from being a scientific icon to falling from grace in the public eye. The 1962 Nobel Prize winner for the discovery of DNA died on November 6, 2025, at the age of 97, after years of controversy for making baseless claims that Black people were less intelligent

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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