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Ground robot maps soil moisture in a California citrus orchard to guide precision irrigation tree by tree

UC Riverside robot maps soil moisture tree by tree to stop overwatering in orchards

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April 13, 2026 at 4:38 AM

NASA experiment using concentrated sunlight to extract oxygen from simulated lunar soil in a lab setup

What astronauts step on could end up in their oxygen tanks, and NASA’s new experiment with concentrated sunlight makes the idea of living on the Moon for months without relying so heavily on Earth seem much more plausible

By ECONEWS

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April 9, 2026 at 12:30 PM

China CH-7 stealth drone flying during test flight showcasing advanced military aviation and surveillance capabilities

China tests its new 925 km/h stealth drone, and the first flight of this nearly invisible aircraft sends a message that goes far beyond mere speed

By Adrian Villellas

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April 9, 2026 at 10:15 AM

Illustration of two Roman men playing an ancient board game linked to an archaeological stone analyzed with artificial intelligence

Archaeologists are turning to artificial intelligence to decipher a 2,000-year-old Roman inscription, and what’s written on the stone could change everything we thought we knew about an ancient lost game

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April 8, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Richard Feynman teaching in front of a blackboard during the era when he inspired the idea of extreme miniaturization

Richard Feynman, physicist and visionary, in 1959: “There is enough space on the head of a pin to fit the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica”

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April 8, 2026 at 6:30 AM

China’s 2-watt satellite laser transmits gigabit-speed data to an Earth telescope during a space-to-ground test

China has just achieved an extraordinary feat: a laser with a power output of just 2 watts has transmitted data at a speed of 1 gigabit per second from a distance of 36,705 kilometers to Earth

By ECONEWS

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April 7, 2026 at 3:39 AM

Wet magnetic cement mixture being poured during a wall-finish demonstration for movable no-drill storage

A 29-year-old man wants to put an end to holes in walls with an idea that could transform rental housing

By Adrian Villellas

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April 2, 2026 at 5:20 AM

Satellite image of a powerful hurricane forming over the ocean as artificial intelligence models analyze storm development

Hurricane forecasting is about to change forever: AI is beginning to detect sudden intensifications before they occur and could help prevent future disasters

By Adrian Villellas

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March 27, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Frozen blueberries in packaging linked to food recall in the United States and Canada due to contamination risk

FDA recall: Elite Treats Chicken Chips for Dogs may carry salmonella, a risk for pets and people

By ECONEWS

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March 26, 2026 at 6:30 PM

An automated robotic assembly line inside Xiaomi's "lights-out" Smart Factory in Beijing, showing robotic arms assembling flagship smartphones.

Xiaomi’s “dark factory” in China can make 10 million smartphones a year with almost no workers

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March 26, 2026 at 10:15 AM

A sensor patch worn on a finger that can generate electricity from sweat for battery-free wearables

Japanese scientists print a paper sensor that generates electricity from sweat

By ECONEWS

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March 25, 2026 at 1:06 PM

The Chinese "Jetank" (Jiutian) heavy-lift drone on a runway, featuring a 25-meter wingspan and 12-hour endurance.

China already has a giant drone with the payload capacity of a manned fighter jet, and what’s most unsettling is that the “Jetank” can launch entire swarms into the air

By ECONEWS

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March 25, 2026 at 12:30 PM

The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz sailing in Panamanian waters during a visit that has reignited the environmental debate

The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz is scheduled to arrive in Panama between March 29 and April 2 with some 6,000 people on board for a military port call that has also raised concerns about noise, waste, and emissions

By ECONEWS

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March 25, 2026 at 10:22 AM

AI simulation evolves vision from blind virtual creatures, revealing how eyes can emerge without direct programming

In 2026, an AI is challenged to design life from scratch, and the unthinkable happens: it starts with blind creatures and ends up developing a functional visual system without instructions, as if evolution had “sneaked” into the code

By Adrian Villellas

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March 24, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Rendering of Trojena freshwater lake surrounded by mountains and dam structures in Saudi Arabia

Trojena: Saudi Arabia is building three dams for a 1.7-mile artificial lake in the NEOM mountains, a $4.7 billion contract

By ECONEWS

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March 24, 2026 at 5:30 AM

Aerial rendering of the Pinglu Canal with locks, cargo ships and surrounding green hills in China

China’s Pinglu Canal: the 83-mile route linking Nanning to the sea, due to finish in late 2026

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March 24, 2026 at 3:42 AM

NASA SR-71 Blackbird flying at high altitude, the legendary aircraft linked to the Japan to California flight that appeared to travel through time

The plane that “traveled through time”: it left Japan on Saturday and arrived in California “on Friday”

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March 18, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Concept image of Sentitech’s Domus Sentinela double-dome perimeter security system protecting a large airfield with layered detection zones.

A Spanish startup founded in April 2025 validates in record time an AI-powered perimeter surveillance system with sensor fusion, covering 40 hectares and 2,500 meters in real air traffic and reaching TRL 6 with a “double dome” that detects up to 3 km

By ECONEWS

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March 17, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Japan’s test ship JS Asuka equipped with a 100 kW naval laser weapon designed to intercept drones and incoming threats.

Japan tests a 100 kW laser weapon against drones on the 6,200-ton ship JS Asuka

By Adrian Villellas

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March 17, 2026 at 11:49 AM

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching at dawn, illustrating new research into water-based space fuels for future missions.

New research into space fuels promises to reduce costs and facilitate missions such as SpaceX’s journey to Mars

By Adrian Villellas

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March 16, 2026 at 5:00 PM

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UC Riverside robot maps soil moisture tree by tree to stop overwatering in orchards

What astronauts step on could end up in their oxygen tanks, and NASA’s new experiment with concentrated sunlight makes the idea of living on the Moon for months without relying so heavily on Earth seem much more plausible

China tests its new 925 km/h stealth drone, and the first flight of this nearly invisible aircraft sends a message that goes far beyond mere speed

Archaeologists are turning to artificial intelligence to decipher a 2,000-year-old Roman inscription, and what’s written on the stone could change everything we thought we knew about an ancient lost game

Richard Feynman, physicist and visionary, in 1959: “There is enough space on the head of a pin to fit the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica”

China has just achieved an extraordinary feat: a laser with a power output of just 2 watts has transmitted data at a speed of 1 gigabit per second from a distance of 36,705 kilometers to Earth

A 29-year-old man wants to put an end to holes in walls with an idea that could transform rental housing

Hurricane forecasting is about to change forever: AI is beginning to detect sudden intensifications before they occur and could help prevent future disasters

FDA recall: Elite Treats Chicken Chips for Dogs may carry salmonella, a risk for pets and people

Xiaomi’s “dark factory” in China can make 10 million smartphones a year with almost no workers

Japanese scientists print a paper sensor that generates electricity from sweat

China already has a giant drone with the payload capacity of a manned fighter jet, and what’s most unsettling is that the “Jetank” can launch entire swarms into the air

The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz is scheduled to arrive in Panama between March 29 and April 2 with some 6,000 people on board for a military port call that has also raised concerns about noise, waste, and emissions

In 2026, an AI is challenged to design life from scratch, and the unthinkable happens: it starts with blind creatures and ends up developing a functional visual system without instructions, as if evolution had “sneaked” into the code

Trojena: Saudi Arabia is building three dams for a 1.7-mile artificial lake in the NEOM mountains, a $4.7 billion contract

China’s Pinglu Canal: the 83-mile route linking Nanning to the sea, due to finish in late 2026

The plane that “traveled through time”: it left Japan on Saturday and arrived in California “on Friday”

A Spanish startup founded in April 2025 validates in record time an AI-powered perimeter surveillance system with sensor fusion, covering 40 hectares and 2,500 meters in real air traffic and reaching TRL 6 with a “double dome” that detects up to 3 km

Japan tests a 100 kW laser weapon against drones on the 6,200-ton ship JS Asuka

New research into space fuels promises to reduce costs and facilitate missions such as SpaceX’s journey to Mars

Antarctica has its own soil bacteria just as it has its own penguins, with 90 percent of the strains scientists tracked found nowhere else on Earth, and lab tests revealed something odd about them

Chile is turning 2,175 miles of undersea internet cable into an earthquake sensor, and a study found it can size a quake five seconds after the first waves

In Abauntz Cave in northern Spain, archaeologists have found the first Neanderthal remains ever identified in Navarre, six bones from a man’s right hand dated to about 46,000 years ago, and at first nobody realized they were human

Emperor penguins vanish from satellite photos every Antarctic winter, so scientists followed them with radar for 8 years and found colonies walking away from the sea while the ice around them showed no visible change

A museum in Lucerne is showing what Switzerland’s melting glaciers have given up, from 8,000-year-old deer antler to a crushed mayonnaise tube, in a year when the country’s glaciers lost 5.5% of their volume, the second-worst loss on record

A meltwater pond at the foot of Mount Hood’s Coalman Glacier has grown larger than in previous years, and the USGS says a sudden release could send a debris flow down the White River toward the Highway 35 bridge

A camera set up to study forests in New Mexico’s Carson National Forest photographed a Canada lynx in June, the first confirmed in the state in about 25 years according to New Mexico State University, and it lives in the kind of forest crews thin to fight wildfires

Scientists have finally seen inside living Antarctic fish cells at nearly 32°F, and the tiny energy factories inside them are far busier than anyone assumed

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