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Shine 2.0 portable wind turbine charging devices in light wind outdoors

A bottle-sized “windmill” that promises to save your cell phone in the middle of nowhere, Shine 2.0 says it charges with just 8 mph of wind and weighs 3 pounds

By ECONEWS

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February 25, 2026 at 12:59 PM

10-year-old boy in Rostock programming a small educational robot with block-based code on a laptop during a MikroMINT technology workshop

A 10-year-old boy from Rostock is already programming his own browser in Python with a “history limit” and everything, while others are still learning how to browse safely

By Adrian Villellas

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February 23, 2026 at 5:12 PM

Russian Shahed loitering munition equipped with a Starlink satellite terminal used for live video guidance in Ukraine.

Russian kamikaze drones fly close to the ground and transmit live video thanks to Starlink, a combination that renders traditional electronic warfare obsolete

By ECONEWS

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February 22, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Humanoid robot police officer directing traffic at a city intersection in China

China is deploying robotic police officers equipped with cameras that operate 24 hours a day on the streets to replace human workers and normalize total automation

By Adrian Villellas

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February 21, 2026 at 12:30 PM

U.S. military drone in flight receiving wireless power from a ground-based laser transmission system

The United States fires a laser from the ground that keeps a drone in the air for hours without having to land even once

By ECONEWS

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February 19, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Replica of Thomas Edison’s 1879 carbon filament light bulb linked to early graphene formation

Thomas Edison may have created graphene without knowing it in 1879, and modern science has just discovered it almost 150 years later

By Adrian Villellas

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February 19, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Concept rendering of a bat-shaped fighter jet flying above clouds, a proposed Mach 4 carrier aircraft designed to coordinate drones.

A bat-shaped aircraft could be the next US fighter jet: it promises to fly at Mach 4 and coordinate drones from aircraft carriers

By Adrian Villellas

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February 16, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Concept illustration of an interstellar probe accelerated by a relativistic electron beam toward Alpha Centauri

A study proposes reaching Alpha Centauri in about 40 years with a probe powered by relativistic electron beams

By Adrian Villellas

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February 15, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Virginia class nuclear submarine as Australia faces uncertainty over AUKUS delivery under new US congressional report

A US Congressional report says Australia may never receive the Virginia-class submarines in its AUKUS deal

By ECONEWS

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February 15, 2026 at 10:15 AM

SpaceX Starship stands behind a glowing “Gateway to Mars” sign at Starbase in South Texas at night.

Elon Musk reveals his most ambitious (and detailed) plan for Mars: 1,000 spacecraft, 20 years of launches, and a self-sustaining city of one million inhabitants on Mars by 2050

By ECONEWS

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February 13, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Gene edited fungus developed in China produces meat like protein with a lower environmental footprint

A Chinese invention is revolutionizing the food industry: genetically modified mushrooms that taste like meat and use 70% less land than traditional livestock farming

By ECONEWS

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February 11, 2026 at 4:00 PM

French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle at sea with escort warships during Exercise ORION 26 in the North Atlantic.

The French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle leads Exercise ORION 26 in the North Atlantic and Arctic

By Adrian Villellas

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February 11, 2026 at 10:15 AM

Google Quantum AI processor used to demonstrate error corrected logical qubits below the quantum threshold

Google Quantum AI goes below the error correction threshold, a key step toward reliable quantum computing

By Adrian Villellas

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February 9, 2026 at 10:15 AM

Traffic cameras mounted over a Washington roadway as the state moves to limit license plate data collection

Washington limits the use of automatic license plate reader cameras in 2026

By ECONEWS

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February 9, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Side-by-side image shows the USS Utah capsized at Pearl Harbor and a modern US Navy submarine underway at sea.

The United States Navy has revived the name USS Utah for a nuclear submarine, reopening a wound directly tied to Pearl Harbor

By Adrian Villellas

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February 8, 2026 at 10:15 AM

Data center cooling units at sunset, highlighting the energy and water footprint behind today’s AI boom

The world is increasingly concerned about total AI, and China is aligning itself with Indonesia in a wave of regulations that seek to curb its total replacement

By Adrian Villellas

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February 7, 2026 at 6:30 PM

The SS United States ocean liner sits in port as tugboats guide it during a tow, beginning its journey to become an artificial reef.

The legendary SS United States is moving again after decades at a standstill, and its destination is no longer the Atlantic but becoming the world’s largest artificial reef

By ECONEWS

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February 6, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Japan's H3 rocket lifts off from Tanegashima Space Center, flames and smoke rising over the Pacific.

JAXA admits that the H3 failed due to damage to the satellite section and fuel tube, and the blow comes at a key moment

By ECONEWS

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February 6, 2026 at 10:15 AM

A rocket launches into a blue sky through thick smoke, illustrating the push toward space-based computing and orbital infrastructure.

Elon Musk revives Dojo3 and states that it will no longer be used to train AI on Earth, but for space computing

By Adrian Villellas

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February 5, 2026 at 6:30 AM

U.S. Navy aircraft carrier steaming through the South China Sea with fighter jets lined up on the flight deck.

Aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln holds live fire drills in the South China Sea: the environmental impact

By Adrian Villellas

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February 4, 2026 at 11:12 AM

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A bottle-sized “windmill” that promises to save your cell phone in the middle of nowhere, Shine 2.0 says it charges with just 8 mph of wind and weighs 3 pounds

A 10-year-old boy from Rostock is already programming his own browser in Python with a “history limit” and everything, while others are still learning how to browse safely

Russian kamikaze drones fly close to the ground and transmit live video thanks to Starlink, a combination that renders traditional electronic warfare obsolete

China is deploying robotic police officers equipped with cameras that operate 24 hours a day on the streets to replace human workers and normalize total automation

The United States fires a laser from the ground that keeps a drone in the air for hours without having to land even once

Thomas Edison may have created graphene without knowing it in 1879, and modern science has just discovered it almost 150 years later

A bat-shaped aircraft could be the next US fighter jet: it promises to fly at Mach 4 and coordinate drones from aircraft carriers

A study proposes reaching Alpha Centauri in about 40 years with a probe powered by relativistic electron beams

A US Congressional report says Australia may never receive the Virginia-class submarines in its AUKUS deal

Elon Musk reveals his most ambitious (and detailed) plan for Mars: 1,000 spacecraft, 20 years of launches, and a self-sustaining city of one million inhabitants on Mars by 2050

A Chinese invention is revolutionizing the food industry: genetically modified mushrooms that taste like meat and use 70% less land than traditional livestock farming

The French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle leads Exercise ORION 26 in the North Atlantic and Arctic

Google Quantum AI goes below the error correction threshold, a key step toward reliable quantum computing

Washington limits the use of automatic license plate reader cameras in 2026

The United States Navy has revived the name USS Utah for a nuclear submarine, reopening a wound directly tied to Pearl Harbor

The world is increasingly concerned about total AI, and China is aligning itself with Indonesia in a wave of regulations that seek to curb its total replacement

The legendary SS United States is moving again after decades at a standstill, and its destination is no longer the Atlantic but becoming the world’s largest artificial reef

JAXA admits that the H3 failed due to damage to the satellite section and fuel tube, and the blow comes at a key moment

Elon Musk revives Dojo3 and states that it will no longer be used to train AI on Earth, but for space computing

Aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln holds live fire drills in the South China Sea: the environmental impact

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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