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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.

Inset image points to faint interstellar object 3I/ATLAS against a star field, shown with a blue glow and an arrow marking its position.

The countdown has begun: in a few days, the truth about 3I/ATLAS will be revealed

By ECONEWS

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January 27, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Physicists in Stuttgart examine optical equipment used to teleport quantum information between photons in a laboratory experiment.

In a laboratory, they manage to teleport quantum information between photons born in different crystals, and the technical detail that makes this possible sounds like the internet of the future

By ECONEWS

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January 27, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Mammoth Cave National Park interior showing a deep vertical shaft and catwalk, where a ranger helped spot ancient shark fossils in the ceiling rock

You enter Mammoth Cave looking for darkness… and encounter sharks: a park ranger discovers fossils of 10–12-foot predators that swam here 325 million years ago on the ceiling of this cave

By ECONEWS

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January 27, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Artist’s impression of a baby star’s jet creating a bubble that distorts its own protoplanetary disk, based on ALMA data of WSB 52.

Images capture how a baby star shoots a jet at full speed 440 light-years away and the “rebound” ends up hitting its own disk where planets are born

By ECONEWS

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January 26, 2026 at 1:30 PM

Four gravitationally lensed images of quasar RX J1131 reveal the glowing corona surrounding a supermassive black hole.

Four images of the same quasar reveal the “aura” of a black hole 6 billion light-years away, and its size surprises even astronomers

By ECONEWS

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January 26, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Capybara resting among yacare caimans on a Brazilian riverbank, showing an unusual calm between predator and prey.

The strangest “truce.” A capybara was filmed sleeping next to a massive caiman, and the explanation is not friendship. It is pure survival

By ECONEWS

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January 25, 2026 at 3:38 PM

Jinxiuite discovery site rock sample from the Longhua nickel-cobalt deposit in Guangxi, China, shown with a centimeter scale.

Chinese geologists confirm Jinxiuite, a new mineral found in Guangxi’s Longhua nickel-cobalt deposit

By ECONEWS

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January 25, 2026 at 10:45 AM

A dark circular patch marks the Taam Ja blue hole in Chetumal Bay, Mexico, seen from above with a small boat nearby.

Some fishermen mentioned a strangely calm patch of water, so scientists lowered their instruments and discovered a drop that seems to have no end

By ECONEWS

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January 25, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Snow-covered Antarctic ice sheet under a clear blue sky, as scientists report the ozone hole closed unusually early in 2025.

The ozone hole over Antarctica closed unusually early in 2025, and scientists believe there is a reason that almost no one is looking at

By Adrian Villellas

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January 24, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Satellite world map showing seasonal misalignment and plant growth cycles across different regions of Earth.

Satellites have just discovered that Earth does not have four equal seasons, and the new world map leaves areas “out of alignment” within a few kilometers

By ECONEWS

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January 23, 2026 at 11:56 AM

Research aircraft surveys Antarctica as an inset map shows an ancient landscape of valleys and ridges beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.

Beneath 2 kilometers of Antarctic ice lies a landscape untouched for 34 million years, leaving glaciologists speechless

By ECONEWS

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January 23, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Close-up of native gold flakes embedded in white quartz rock, showing how gold can concentrate into ore veins.

The gold in your ring may have started moving 80 km underground, and a new study reveals the chemical “trick” that releases it

By Adrian Villellas

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January 22, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Steaming cup of black coffee in a glass mug on a saucer, illustrating heat loss and the arrow of time.

There is no such thing as a “quantum un-do button” in nature, and that limitation could explain why your coffee cools down but never reheats on its own

By Adrian Villellas

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January 22, 2026 at 10:15 AM

Student archaeologist documents a red-ochre burial pit linked to a 5,400-year-old amber grave near Lake Onega, Russia.

A student picks up a fragment of fossilized resin, and suddenly invisible trade routes that crossed half of Europe 5,400 years ago appear

By ECONEWS

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January 21, 2026 at 11:34 AM

Thousands of small orange-and-black bumblebee catfish cluster and inch up wet rock beside a waterfall in Brazil.

It was first spotted by environmental police, and a week later science arrived. The video of orange-and-black fish climbing wet rock is already being called a historic discovery

By Adrian Villellas

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January 21, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Neolithic lakeside villagers work near a fire and hut while preparing tools and materials, illustrating birch bark tar use in daily life.

The black “chewing gum” that appeared in Neolithic villages concealed something unexpected, and scientists have finally managed to decipher it

By ECONEWS

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January 20, 2026 at 6:00 PM

Satellite orbits above Arctic sea ice, illustrating Earth observation used to track magnetic north drift

They detected that the magnetic North Pole has crossed an invisible “border” in the Arctic, and the question is no longer whether it is moving, but what will happen when the “north” ceases to seem like a stable concept

By ECONEWS

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January 20, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Illustration of a woolly mammoth standing on Arctic ice, symbolizing a study that reclassified “young mammoth” bones as whales.

The story seemed perfect: for 70 years, these vertebrae were touted as the “youngest mammoth” in Alaska, and the twist comes when science decides to review them from scratch

By Adrian Villellas

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January 20, 2026 at 6:30 AM

“People and vehicles gather beside a deep ground fissure that ripped across a road in Kenya, part of the East African Rift zone.”

Africa is splitting in two in slow motion, and geologists have found the crack where a new ocean is being born

By ECONEWS

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January 19, 2026 at 7:16 AM

For the first time on video: orcas and dolphins “team up” to hunt chinook salmon off the coast of Vancouver Island

By Adrian Villellas

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January 18, 2026 at 3:09 PM

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The countdown has begun: in a few days, the truth about 3I/ATLAS will be revealed

In a laboratory, they manage to teleport quantum information between photons born in different crystals, and the technical detail that makes this possible sounds like the internet of the future

You enter Mammoth Cave looking for darkness… and encounter sharks: a park ranger discovers fossils of 10–12-foot predators that swam here 325 million years ago on the ceiling of this cave

Images capture how a baby star shoots a jet at full speed 440 light-years away and the “rebound” ends up hitting its own disk where planets are born

Four images of the same quasar reveal the “aura” of a black hole 6 billion light-years away, and its size surprises even astronomers

The strangest “truce.” A capybara was filmed sleeping next to a massive caiman, and the explanation is not friendship. It is pure survival

Chinese geologists confirm Jinxiuite, a new mineral found in Guangxi’s Longhua nickel-cobalt deposit

Some fishermen mentioned a strangely calm patch of water, so scientists lowered their instruments and discovered a drop that seems to have no end

The ozone hole over Antarctica closed unusually early in 2025, and scientists believe there is a reason that almost no one is looking at

Satellites have just discovered that Earth does not have four equal seasons, and the new world map leaves areas “out of alignment” within a few kilometers

Beneath 2 kilometers of Antarctic ice lies a landscape untouched for 34 million years, leaving glaciologists speechless

The gold in your ring may have started moving 80 km underground, and a new study reveals the chemical “trick” that releases it

There is no such thing as a “quantum un-do button” in nature, and that limitation could explain why your coffee cools down but never reheats on its own

A student picks up a fragment of fossilized resin, and suddenly invisible trade routes that crossed half of Europe 5,400 years ago appear

It was first spotted by environmental police, and a week later science arrived. The video of orange-and-black fish climbing wet rock is already being called a historic discovery

The black “chewing gum” that appeared in Neolithic villages concealed something unexpected, and scientists have finally managed to decipher it

They detected that the magnetic North Pole has crossed an invisible “border” in the Arctic, and the question is no longer whether it is moving, but what will happen when the “north” ceases to seem like a stable concept

The story seemed perfect: for 70 years, these vertebrae were touted as the “youngest mammoth” in Alaska, and the twist comes when science decides to review them from scratch

Africa is splitting in two in slow motion, and geologists have found the crack where a new ocean is being born

For the first time on video: orcas and dolphins “team up” to hunt chinook salmon off the coast of Vancouver Island

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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