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Sunrise over Earth from space, symbolizing research that Earth’s oxygen-rich atmosphere has an expiration date tied to the Sun.

Earth’s oxygen has an expiration date, and it is written on the Sun

By Adrian Villellas

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January 1, 2026 at 2:18 PM

Cracks along the Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf in West Antarctica, with inset map showing the “end-of-the-world” glacier area.

Cracks in Antarctica’s “end-of-the-world glacier” are a sign that the safety net is failing

By Adrian Villellas

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January 1, 2026 at 1:36 PM

Earth from space with blue oceans and cloud bands, illustrating research that Earth’s day lasted about 19 hours for a billion years.

For a billion years, Earth’s day lasted only 19 hours

By Adrian Villellas

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December 31, 2025 at 2:44 PM

ROV image of the Arctic seabed at 3,640m, showing a hydrate mound and methane seep “living oasis” ecosystem.

A robot descended to a depth of almost four kilometers below the Arctic and found a living oasis that changes what we knew about the seabed

By Adrian Villellas

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December 31, 2025 at 11:24 AM

If you thought “something was entering the atmosphere,” you weren’t the only one. What people saw in Alabama and Georgia lines up with the Taurid meteors that show up in the fall and surprise people with how bright they are

By ECONEWS

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December 31, 2025 at 8:11 AM

Scrubland at dusk in Andhra Pradesh where Jerdon’s courser was recorded, with inset of the critically endangered bird.

Night recordings in India confirm that Jerdon’s courser, one of the rarest birds in the world, still survives

By ECONEWS

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December 31, 2025 at 5:45 AM

Pale translucent shrimp-like crustacean held in hands, spotlighting the “alien” look of newly found wildlife

Scientists discover previously unseen animals and plants that appear to come from another planet

By Adrian Villellas

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December 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM

Cracked Martian rock revealing bright yellow crystals in Curiosity rover track at Gediz Vallis, Mount Sharp.

Curiosity drove over a rock on Mars, accidentally breaking it, and what appeared inside left scientists with more questions than answers

By ECONEWS

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December 30, 2025 at 1:12 PM

Side-by-side Webb vs Hubble near-infrared view of a Cepheid field, showing Webb resolving crowding that can blur distance measurements.

James Webb and Hubble confirm a stubborn cosmic mismatch

By Adrian Villellas

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December 30, 2025 at 11:46 AM

Mars south pole “Inca City” with dark seasonal CO₂-jet spots (“spiders”) appearing on polar terrain, ESA Mars Express view.

It looked like just another photo of Mars’s south pole until hundreds of black spots started to appear, and someone at the ESA said, “This shouldn’t look like this”

By ECONEWS

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December 30, 2025 at 9:36 AM

Supermassive black hole surrounded by a glowing accretion disk as space-time twists under extreme gravity

A supermassive black hole would have revealed its spin by “twisting” space-time and causing a disk and jet to wobble at the same time

By ECONEWS

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December 30, 2025 at 6:06 AM

Artist’s impression of a blue-whale-size sea monster (giant ichthyosaur) stranded on a beach.

An 11-year-old girl saw enormous bones on a beach and, without knowing it, had just triggered the search for a “sea monster” the size of a blue whale

By ECONEWS

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December 29, 2025 at 1:32 PM

Spinning black hole with glowing accretion disk, illustrating Einstein’s frame-dragging spacetime wobble

A “heartbeat” detected every 20 days in a shattered star, and the clue points to something Einstein predicted more than a century ago

By Adrian Villellas

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December 29, 2025 at 8:35 AM

Illustration of two prehistoric sharks from 325 million years ago, similar to fossils discovered in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky.

They entered the longest cave in the world expecting rock and darkness and ended up finding two creatures from 325 million years ago

By Adrian Villellas

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December 29, 2025 at 5:32 AM

Total solar eclipse above Earth’s horizon, illustrating the 2027 eclipse expected to be one of the longest of the century.

The longest solar eclipse of the century is coming in 2027: where and how to see it

By ECONEWS

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December 29, 2025 at 3:00 AM

Cluster of honey bees packed tightly together on a hive frame to survive winter cold.

When winter arrives, bees and wasps do not disappear, but instead do something much more disturbing, and now we have discovered what that is

By Adrian Villellas

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December 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM

Map showing the clockwise rotation of the Iberian Peninsula caused by tectonic stress between Africa and Eurasia

Scientists confirm that the Iberian Peninsula has been rotating for thousands of years, driven by deep and invisible forces within the Earth, without anyone noticing

By ECONEWS

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December 28, 2025 at 12:25 PM

Giant dinosaur egg sculptures and a sauropod model outside Spain’s paleontology museum exhibit on titanosaur eggs

Beneath a hill, on a quiet hilltop, lay a 72-million-year-old nursery with giant 60-ton dinosaur hatchlings

By Adrian Villellas

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December 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM

Ceramic jugs and plates scattered on the seafloor at the Camarat 4 16th-century shipwreck, over 2,500 meters deep.

A 16th-century ship is discovered by chance at a depth of more than 2,500 meters, completely rewriting the important history of the Mediterranean

By ECONEWS

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December 28, 2025 at 9:39 AM

Cratered Moon surface in shadow, illustrating the lunar night side where a brief impact flash was recorded.

Something hit the Moon in the middle of the night, and a telescope captured it by pure chance

By Adrian Villellas

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December 28, 2025 at 8:03 AM

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Earth’s oxygen has an expiration date, and it is written on the Sun

Cracks in Antarctica’s “end-of-the-world glacier” are a sign that the safety net is failing

For a billion years, Earth’s day lasted only 19 hours

A robot descended to a depth of almost four kilometers below the Arctic and found a living oasis that changes what we knew about the seabed

If you thought “something was entering the atmosphere,” you weren’t the only one. What people saw in Alabama and Georgia lines up with the Taurid meteors that show up in the fall and surprise people with how bright they are

Night recordings in India confirm that Jerdon’s courser, one of the rarest birds in the world, still survives

Scientists discover previously unseen animals and plants that appear to come from another planet

Curiosity drove over a rock on Mars, accidentally breaking it, and what appeared inside left scientists with more questions than answers

James Webb and Hubble confirm a stubborn cosmic mismatch

It looked like just another photo of Mars’s south pole until hundreds of black spots started to appear, and someone at the ESA said, “This shouldn’t look like this”

A supermassive black hole would have revealed its spin by “twisting” space-time and causing a disk and jet to wobble at the same time

An 11-year-old girl saw enormous bones on a beach and, without knowing it, had just triggered the search for a “sea monster” the size of a blue whale

A “heartbeat” detected every 20 days in a shattered star, and the clue points to something Einstein predicted more than a century ago

They entered the longest cave in the world expecting rock and darkness and ended up finding two creatures from 325 million years ago

The longest solar eclipse of the century is coming in 2027: where and how to see it

When winter arrives, bees and wasps do not disappear, but instead do something much more disturbing, and now we have discovered what that is

Scientists confirm that the Iberian Peninsula has been rotating for thousands of years, driven by deep and invisible forces within the Earth, without anyone noticing

Beneath a hill, on a quiet hilltop, lay a 72-million-year-old nursery with giant 60-ton dinosaur hatchlings

A 16th-century ship is discovered by chance at a depth of more than 2,500 meters, completely rewriting the important history of the Mediterranean

Something hit the Moon in the middle of the night, and a telescope captured it by pure chance

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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