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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.

Reconstruction of Jurassic ecosystem showing large predators hunting newly hatched sauropod dinosaurs

They reconstruct the Jurassic ecosystem and discover that giant baby dinosaurs left to fend for themselves were the favorite prey of large predators.

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March 8, 2026 at 3:00 PM

NASA Artemis II crew training for the first crewed lunar mission since 1972.

In 2026, NASA breaks a long-standing rule and authorizes the use of smartphones on Artemis II, the first manned mission to the Moon since 1972, and the idea of seeing iPhones in orbit is already making headlines around the world

By ECONEWS

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March 8, 2026 at 10:45 AM

Fossil bone disks once labeled as mammoth vertebrae later identified as ancient whale bones in Alaska

For 70 years, they believed they were mammoth bones… until they discovered they belonged to whales from 1,800 years ago

By ECONEWS

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March 7, 2026 at 3:21 PM

Stonehenge megaliths on Salisbury Plain, where research suggests Neolithic humans transported the massive stones rather than glaciers.

For years we believed that glaciers carried the stones to Stonehenge, but now science says it was the work of other creatures

By ECONEWS

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March 7, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Bowhead whale swimming in Arctic waters, species studied for extreme longevity and DNA repair

An American study shows that humans could live up to 200 years if its method were applied

By ECONEWS

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March 7, 2026 at 11:45 AM

Hubble Space Telescope image of Cloud-9, a starless hydrogen gas cloud dominated by dark matter near Messier 94

NASA accidentally discovers a starless cloud in deep space

By Adrian Villellas

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March 6, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Purple sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus with spines visible, species found to have a brain-like nervous system across its body

The purple sea urchin’s whole body works like a brain, a genetic study finds

By ECONEWS

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March 5, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Microscopic view of Asgard archaea, the marine microbes linked to the origin of all complex life on Earth

It was not a Norse god, it was much more: scientists attribute the origin of all complex life to a microscopic marine creature with a mythological name

By ECONEWS

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March 5, 2026 at 11:47 AM

Illustration of aging brain cells showing changes in neuron state and identity over time

Aging changes the fate of your cells, and now we know how to reverse it

By ECONEWS

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March 4, 2026 at 6:30 AM

X-ray image of altermagnetic domains in an ultrathin manganese telluride film studied by researchers.

University of Nottingham scientists image and control altermagnetism for the first time, a third type of magnetism

By ECONEWS

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March 3, 2026 at 5:05 PM

Microscopic image of Panagrolaimus kolymaensis, a 46,000 year old worm revived from Siberian permafrost.

A frozen worm buried for more than 46,000 years in Siberian permafrost awakens in a laboratory and baffles scientists: it has survived more than half a million times its natural life expectancy

By ECONEWS

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March 3, 2026 at 3:06 PM

NASA satellite image showing wildfires burning across snowy Arctic terrain near the North Pole

NASA captured it from space, and it looks like a bad joke: fire burning on the ice of the North Pole. The scary thing is that it has been multiplying for 10 years

By ECONEWS

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March 3, 2026 at 8:25 AM

Infrared image of the debris disk around HD 181327 where crystalline water ice was detected by the James Webb Space Telescope.

They have found crystalline water ice outside the Solar System, in a young system just 23 million years old

By Adrian Villellas

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March 3, 2026 at 6:53 AM

Image of the Ring Nebula highlighting the newly discovered bar of super hot iron gas across its center.

After observing it for years, astronomers discover a strange structure in an iconic object, and now everyone is wondering how it is possible that it had not been seen before

By ECONEWS

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March 2, 2026 at 6:59 PM

James Webb Space Telescope image of distant galaxy MoM z14 at redshift 14.44

James Webb discovers (once again) the most distant galaxy in the universe and breaks its own record

By Adrian Villellas

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March 2, 2026 at 5:57 PM

The Treasure of Villena, a 3,000 year old Bronze Age hoard from Spain containing meteorite iron artifacts

In 1963, a 3,000-year-old “treasure” appeared in Spain: we now know that it contains material that is not from our world

By Adrian Villellas

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March 2, 2026 at 9:33 AM

Amazonian anaconda species whose fossils show maximum size reached 12.4 million years ago during the Miocene

Amazon anacondas reached their current size 12.4 million years ago and have barely changed since, fossils from Venezuela show

By ECONEWS

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March 2, 2026 at 8:20 AM

67,800 year old red hand stencil cave painting discovered in Liang Metanduno cave, Sulawesi, Indonesia

The world’s oldest cave painting: a 67,800-year-old hand stencil found on Muna Island, Indonesia

By ECONEWS

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March 1, 2026 at 8:07 PM

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 ECONEWS

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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

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They reconstruct the Jurassic ecosystem and discover that giant baby dinosaurs left to fend for themselves were the favorite prey of large predators.

In 2026, NASA breaks a long-standing rule and authorizes the use of smartphones on Artemis II, the first manned mission to the Moon since 1972, and the idea of seeing iPhones in orbit is already making headlines around the world

For 70 years, they believed they were mammoth bones… until they discovered they belonged to whales from 1,800 years ago

For years we believed that glaciers carried the stones to Stonehenge, but now science says it was the work of other creatures

An American study shows that humans could live up to 200 years if its method were applied

NASA accidentally discovers a starless cloud in deep space

The purple sea urchin’s whole body works like a brain, a genetic study finds

It was not a Norse god, it was much more: scientists attribute the origin of all complex life to a microscopic marine creature with a mythological name

Aging changes the fate of your cells, and now we know how to reverse it

University of Nottingham scientists image and control altermagnetism for the first time, a third type of magnetism

A frozen worm buried for more than 46,000 years in Siberian permafrost awakens in a laboratory and baffles scientists: it has survived more than half a million times its natural life expectancy

NASA captured it from space, and it looks like a bad joke: fire burning on the ice of the North Pole. The scary thing is that it has been multiplying for 10 years

They have found crystalline water ice outside the Solar System, in a young system just 23 million years old

After observing it for years, astronomers discover a strange structure in an iconic object, and now everyone is wondering how it is possible that it had not been seen before

James Webb discovers (once again) the most distant galaxy in the universe and breaks its own record

In 1963, a 3,000-year-old “treasure” appeared in Spain: we now know that it contains material that is not from our world

Amazon anacondas reached their current size 12.4 million years ago and have barely changed since, fossils from Venezuela show

The world’s oldest cave painting: a 67,800-year-old hand stencil found on Muna Island, Indonesia

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

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

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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