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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.

Satellite-style map showing the East African Rift, a long seam splitting Africa between the Nubian and Somali plates.

Africa looks motionless from space, but a thousands-of-kilometers-long “crack” is already splitting it apart, and satellites are watching it spread section by section

By Adrian Villellas

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January 7, 2026 at 6:06 PM

Arid shoreline of Lake Turkana with Omo–Turkana Basin map, where a 1,231-fossil catalog reveals major gaps in the record.

They gathered 117 scattered studies and compiled a single catalog with 1,231 fossils and 658 individuals, but what is most disturbing is what is missing in between

By Adrian Villellas

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January 7, 2026 at 5:32 PM

Medieval heraldic stone slab discovered beneath an old building during sewer repairs in Vyborg, Russia

Maintenance workers were repairing an old building when they lifted a stone cover and found something that left archaeologists speechless

By Adrian Villellas

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January 7, 2026 at 2:01 PM

Cratered Moon surface in shadow, representing the Moon receding from Earth and the slow lengthening of our days.

They detected that the Moon is moving away about 3.8 centimeters per year, and the disturbing detail is that this “step backward” is stretching our days without anyone noticing

By ECONEWS

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January 6, 2026 at 6:20 PM

Haul truck hauling limestone at an Oklahoma quarry near the Richards Spur fossil caves.

Scientists were searching for bones in an Oklahoma cave, but they found something much rarer and more extraordinary

By Adrian Villellas

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January 6, 2026 at 5:18 PM

Alicella gigantea supergiant amphipods swarm a baited deep-sea lander on the abyssal seafloor.

A strange 34-centimeter creature was recorded in the deep ocean between 3,000 and almost 9,000 meters deep, and the question is no longer whether it exists, but how many there really are

By Adrian Villellas

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January 6, 2026 at 3:14 PM

Earth in space with lightning-like energy lines, illustrating a hidden electric field pulling atmospheric particles into space.

Earth’s hidden electric field is quietly leaking our atmosphere into space

By Adrian Villellas

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January 6, 2026 at 9:41 AM

Illustration showing Mars with water imagery, symbolizing ancient wave ripples that suggest shallow, ice-free lakes once existed on the planet.

The small marks that anyone has seen on a beach now appear on Mars and could be the clearest evidence of shallow, ice-free lakes

By Adrian Villellas

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January 6, 2026 at 5:30 AM

Underground cave lake with turquoise water and mineral formations, used as an illustration for Earth’s “hidden ocean” discovery.

Gigantic “hidden ocean” discovered 700 kilometers beneath Earth’s surface

By Adrian Villellas

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January 5, 2026 at 6:36 PM

Illustration of a Martian crater lake, representing evidence of ancient liquid water on Mars from wave ripple patterns.

Curiosity finds wave ripples showing Mars had ice-free liquid water lakes 3.7 billion years ago

By ECONEWS

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January 5, 2026 at 12:05 PM

Two spherical dinosaur egg fossils from Anhui, China, cracked open to reveal sparkling calcite crystals inside like a geode.

Scientists find two nearly perfect dinosaur eggs in China and, upon opening them, discover a shiny interior filled with crystals like a geode

By Adrian Villellas

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January 5, 2026 at 7:32 AM

NASA’s 3 million dollar “lunar recycle” bet could change how we deal with trash on and off the Moon

By ECONEWS

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January 4, 2026 at 10:38 AM

Montage of ALMA observations showing warped, tilted protoplanetary discs traced by carbon monoxide gas around young stars.

Astronomers tracked carbon monoxide around young stars and found a twist that shouldn’t be there

By Adrian Villellas

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January 4, 2026 at 7:01 AM

NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars with inset close-up of the metal-rich rock “Phippsaksla,” likely an iron-nickel meteorite.

Perseverance finds a metal stranger on Mars and a new clue to our own planet’s past

By Adrian Villellas

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January 3, 2026 at 3:45 PM

Drone view of Uşaklı Höyük, Turkey, where seven infants’ remains were found beside a monumental Hittite stone circle.

Seven babies buried without graves or pots surrounded a monumental structure, and now archaeologists believe they understand what kind of ritual was celebrated there

By ECONEWS

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January 3, 2026 at 12:03 PM

MeerKAT image of Inkathazo, a giant radio galaxy with bent jets spanning ~3.3 million light-years

A galaxy so large that it makes the Milky Way seem tiny has been detected, and scientists are calling it a “problem” for a disturbing reason

By ECONEWS

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January 3, 2026 at 7:45 AM

A swirling black hole in deep space, symbolizing a “loud” alien technosignature screaming across the cosmos.

Forget flying saucers and friendly messages: the first alien civilization we detect could be “screaming” across the cosmos

By Adrian Villellas

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January 3, 2026 at 5:34 AM

Small dark meteorite half buried in Antarctic ice, a carbonaceous chondrite studied for water and metal resources for space exploration.

A small dark meteorite trapped in Antarctic ice could be pointing to how the future will be built and supplied in space

By ECONEWS

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January 2, 2026 at 3:03 PM

Aging star swelling and pulling nearby planets inward, illustrating how old suns can destroy close-orbiting worlds.

Astronomers observe aging stars that are destroying their own planets, and it could happen to Earth

By Adrian Villellas

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January 2, 2026 at 12:59 PM

Artist illustration of a newborn gas giant forming inside a protoplanetary disk around a young Sun-like star.

They were searching for young stars for just a few minutes and ended up finding a newborn planet hidden in a spectacular disk

By Adrian Villellas

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January 1, 2026 at 2:36 PM

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Africa looks motionless from space, but a thousands-of-kilometers-long “crack” is already splitting it apart, and satellites are watching it spread section by section

They gathered 117 scattered studies and compiled a single catalog with 1,231 fossils and 658 individuals, but what is most disturbing is what is missing in between

Maintenance workers were repairing an old building when they lifted a stone cover and found something that left archaeologists speechless

They detected that the Moon is moving away about 3.8 centimeters per year, and the disturbing detail is that this “step backward” is stretching our days without anyone noticing

Scientists were searching for bones in an Oklahoma cave, but they found something much rarer and more extraordinary

A strange 34-centimeter creature was recorded in the deep ocean between 3,000 and almost 9,000 meters deep, and the question is no longer whether it exists, but how many there really are

Earth’s hidden electric field is quietly leaking our atmosphere into space

The small marks that anyone has seen on a beach now appear on Mars and could be the clearest evidence of shallow, ice-free lakes

Gigantic “hidden ocean” discovered 700 kilometers beneath Earth’s surface

Curiosity finds wave ripples showing Mars had ice-free liquid water lakes 3.7 billion years ago

Scientists find two nearly perfect dinosaur eggs in China and, upon opening them, discover a shiny interior filled with crystals like a geode

NASA’s 3 million dollar “lunar recycle” bet could change how we deal with trash on and off the Moon

Astronomers tracked carbon monoxide around young stars and found a twist that shouldn’t be there

Perseverance finds a metal stranger on Mars and a new clue to our own planet’s past

Seven babies buried without graves or pots surrounded a monumental structure, and now archaeologists believe they understand what kind of ritual was celebrated there

A galaxy so large that it makes the Milky Way seem tiny has been detected, and scientists are calling it a “problem” for a disturbing reason

Forget flying saucers and friendly messages: the first alien civilization we detect could be “screaming” across the cosmos

A small dark meteorite trapped in Antarctic ice could be pointing to how the future will be built and supplied in space

Astronomers observe aging stars that are destroying their own planets, and it could happen to Earth

They were searching for young stars for just a few minutes and ended up finding a newborn planet hidden in a spectacular disk

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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