Science

Cat midair twisting body during a fall, demonstrating how its flexible spine helps it land on its feet

A Japanese study finally explains in detail how cats almost always land on their feet, and the secret lies in a very specific, flexible part of their spine

By Sonia Ramírez
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May 2, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Prehistoric pottery with charred food residue showing evidence of ancient European hunter-gatherer meals with fish and wild plants

The diet of hunter-gatherers in Europe thousands of years ago was far more varied, rich, and appetizing than we had been led to believe for decades

By Adrian Villellas
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May 2, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Viscoelastic slime toy showing liquid and solid behavior when stretched and impacted

What appeared to be a simple “snot” toy that captivated children in the 1980s and 1990s was, in fact, a fluid that stretches, wrinkles, and hardens, and is capable of behaving like both a liquid and a solid at the same time

By Adrian Villellas
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May 2, 2026 at 12:07 PM
NASA Van Allen Probe A reentering Earth’s atmosphere over the Pacific after years studying radiation belts

After 14 years in space, a NASA probe is about to return to Earth in the least graceful way possible, but there is no real cause for alarm

By ECONEWS
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May 2, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Two researchers smiling in a laboratory setting, with one pointing to a microscope and computer monitor displaying cryopreserved brain cells.

For the first time, scientists have managed to restore electrical activity in a frozen mouse brain, and that single sentence is enough to spark curiosity, a sense of wonder, and many questions

By Adrian Villellas
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May 2, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Visualization of particle collision tracks used to identify the Xi-cc-plus baryon in a high-energy physics detector

CERN has detected a particle similar to a proton, but about four times heavier, and so rare that detecting it has been much more complicated than it seems

By ECONEWS
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May 1, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Chest CT scan highlighting the thymus gland and its structure used to assess immune system health in adults

There is a small organ in your body that almost no one talks about, and it turns out it might be much more important to your immune system than we have been led to believe for years

By Kevin Montien
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May 1, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Artistic visualization of multiple exoplanets in habitable zones identified as candidates for future life detection studies

There is already a list of 45 planets that could come in handy if Earth were to find itself in a truly dire situation, and that number gives us plenty of room to dream up a Plan B.

By Kevin Montien
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May 1, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Atomic-scale image of a carbon ring molecule with half Möbius electron topology mapped using scanning probe microscopy

They have created a molecule never before seen in nature with an extremely strange half-Möbius topology, and even the electrons behave in a very unusual way inside it

By ECONEWS
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May 1, 2026 at 6:30 AM
llustration of Neanderthal and Homo sapiens individuals representing interbreeding patterns revealed by X chromosome DNA analysis

What if DNA were telling a story of unequal attraction between sapiens and Neanderthals that is far more human, complex, and uncomfortable than we had imagined until now?

By Sonia Ramírez
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April 30, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Artist’s illustration of a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf star in the habitable zone

A potentially habitable super-Earth has been discovered just 10 light years away, and the big question of what might be waiting for us out there returns with a vengeance

By ECONEWS
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April 30, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man showing a human figure inscribed in a circle and square with geometric proportions

After 500 years, they believe they have found the key that could solve one of the greatest mysteries of the Vitruvian Man, Leonardo’s most famous and enigmatic drawing.

By ECONEWS
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April 30, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Reconstruction of a Neanderthal male and a Homo sapiens female illustrating interbreeding patterns suggested by genetic research

A new study suggests that human women and Neanderthal men interbred much more frequently than previously thought, which rewrites part of the history of our origins

By Sonia Ramírez
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April 30, 2026 at 10:15 AM

They embraced for 12,000 years, and now DNA has revealed that this Paleolithic scene was even more moving and mysterious than it initially appeared

By Adrian Villellas
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April 30, 2026 at 6:30 AM
View of the Moon’s surface illustrating a proposed site for a lunar gravitational-wave detector designed to capture faint cosmic signals

Scientists want to build an instrument on the Moon capable of detecting black hole collisions, and the Moon’s near-total silence could be the key to the project’s success

By ECONEWS
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April 29, 2026 at 6:30 PM
A microscopic image of a resilient tardigrade, also known as a water bear, crawling among fine dust particles.

Tardigrades have gone from being tiny, extremely rare creatures to becoming true guardians of the galaxy, in a story that combines extreme biology and planetary protection

By Adrian Villellas
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April 29, 2026 at 5:00 PM
A microscopic visualization of brain tissue neurons glowing after being successfully thawed from a deep cryogenic freeze.

They froze a brain and then managed to reactivate its electrical activity—a phrase that sounds like science fiction, but is already becoming a central part of real scientific discourse

By ECONEWS
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April 29, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Scientists can't believe it: an experimental drug helped mice with advanced Alzheimer's disease regain their memory and ability to learn by restoring a key energy molecule in the brain

Scientists can’t believe it: an experimental drug helped mice with advanced Alzheimer’s disease regain their memory and ability to learn by restoring a key energy molecule in the brain

By Adrian Villellas
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April 29, 2026 at 11:32 AM
A close-up view of pristine, dark rocky grains collected from the surface of the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu.

An asteroid located about 300 million kilometers away contained the five basic letters of DNA and RNA, and the discovery once again calls into question the idea that life began only on Earth

By Sonia Ramírez
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April 29, 2026 at 10:15 AM
A microscopic visualization of the drug-resistant Candida auris fungus spreading.

The Candida auris fungus is once again setting off alarms in hospitals across New York and New Jersey due to its drug resistance and the speed at which it can worsen the situation

By ECONEWS
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April 28, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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