Fossilized grooves in Adriatic Sea limestone believed to show ancient sea turtle tracks from the Cretaceous period

What looked like a wall full of grooves in the Adriatic Sea turned out to be the trail of hundreds of terrified turtles 79 million years ago

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May 12, 2026 at 12:30 PM

High above the Adriatic Sea, on a cliff that rock climbers scale for fun, scientists have uncovered what looks like a moment of pure…..

Ancient clay tablet with cuneiform writing, similar to the tablets decoded in Denmark’s Hidden Treasures project.

A 4,000-year-old object stored in Denmark may preserve one of humanity’s earliest written traces of everyday administration, and its silence lasted millennia

Sonia Ramírez
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May 12, 2026 at 10:15 AM

What happens when researchers finally open a museum storage room that has been quiet for generations? In Denmark, the answer includes magic spells, political…..

Artistic illustration showing how the Eos molecular cloud might appear in the night sky if it were visible.
Deep-sea “yellow brick road” pattern of fractured volcanic rock on the seafloor, with small sea life visible around the cracked slabs.
Large three-toed dinosaur footprint exposed in limestone after flooding near Sandy Creek in Central Texas.
Medieval human remains excavated near the Dolmen of Menga in southern Spain for ancient DNA research.
Microscopic close-up of uterine and placental cells linked to a newly identified pregnancy cell type.
Fossilized dinosaur eggs preserved in the Sainte-Victoire reserve in southern France.
Older man looking through a window, reflecting loneliness and the emotional weight of lacking close friends after 60
China’s large floating research platform under construction for deep-sea science and all-weather ocean operations.
New Yutong buses lined up for Nicaragua’s public transport fleet renewal.
Visualization of quantum particles and lambda hyperons emerging from the vacuum during high-energy proton collisions

Science

Ancient clay tablet with cuneiform writing, similar to the tablets decoded in Denmark’s Hidden Treasures project.

A 4,000-year-old object stored in Denmark may preserve one of humanity’s earliest written traces of everyday administration, and its silence lasted millennia

Sonia Ramírez
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May 12, 2026 at 10:15 AM

What happens when researchers finally open a museum storage room that has been quiet for…..

Blue rod-shaped bacteria floating in a dark microscopic scene, representing synthetic mirror bacteria research.

Scientists warn that synthetic mirror bacteria could slip past natural defenses, and the threat is not a virus but a form of life built backwards

Adrian Villellas
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May 12, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Could a microbe built from biology’s “wrong-handed” building blocks slip through nature’s defenses like a…..

Visualization of galaxy clusters used in the largest cosmic gravity test supporting Einstein’s theory of gravity

The largest gravity test ever carried out has confirmed Newton and Einstein on cosmic scales, leaving alternative theories with less room to hide

Kevin Montien
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May 11, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Gravity is the force that keeps your feet on the ground, but it also choreographs…..

Golden retriever involved in a genetics study linking canine emotional traits to human-related genes

A genetic study of 1,343 golden retrievers has found genes tied to emotions that also appear in humans, suggesting dogs may share more of our inner world than expected

Sonia Ramírez
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May 11, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Why does one golden retriever trot happily into any room while another flinches at the…..

Interior view of the STAR detector at Brookhaven’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, used to study high-energy particle collisions.

What looked like nothing in quantum physics has produced detectable particles, and the vacuum may no longer be the empty stage we imagined

Sonia Ramírez
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May 11, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Empty space looks calm, even boring. Quantum physics has long claimed it is anything but…..

Artistic illustration showing how the Eos molecular cloud might appear in the night sky if it were visible.

Scientists explored the edge of the solar system and found a strange bright structure no one had seen before, opening a new mystery close to home

Adrian Villellas
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May 11, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Astronomers have spotted an enormous molecular hydrogen cloud surprisingly close to the solar system, and…..

Large three-toed dinosaur footprint exposed in limestone after flooding near Sandy Creek in Central Texas.

A storm in the United States tore open the ground and exposed 15 treasures hidden for more than 100 million years

Kevin Montien
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May 10, 2026 at 6:32 PM

When floodwaters ripped through parts of Central Texas in the summer of 2025, the aftermath…..

Medieval human remains excavated near the Dolmen of Menga in southern Spain for ancient DNA research.

DNA solves the mystery of medieval people found in a Spanish Stone Age site, proving that the oldest layer of a place was not the whole story

Adrian Villellas
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May 10, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Ancient DNA from two men buried at the entrance of the Menga dolmen in southern…..

Microscopic close-up of uterine and placental cells linked to a newly identified pregnancy cell type.

Scientists discover a new type of human cell that appears only at one moment in life, and no one yet knows exactly what it does

Kevin Montien
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May 10, 2026 at 3:00 PM

What if one of the most important “gatekeeper” cells in pregnancy only exists for a…..

Fossilized dinosaur eggs preserved in the Sainte-Victoire reserve in southern France.

A prehistoric treasure has resurfaced in France: 500 dinosaur eggs that spent 70 million years hidden are now rewriting a vanished nesting ground

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May 10, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Southern France just got a new reminder that fossils are not always buried deep underground……

Mobility

New Yutong buses lined up for Nicaragua’s public transport fleet renewal.

China is sending 600 next-generation buses to Nicaragua, and the first 180 have already arrived in a move that could reshape public transport in Latin America

Sonia Ramírez
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May 10, 2026 at 8:45 AM

China has begun sending hundreds of new buses to Nicaragua in a deal meant to refresh the…..

Amtrak California Zephyr passenger train traveling through the Rocky Mountains during its cross-country route

The longest passenger train route in the United States crosses America like a moving observatory, and the California Zephyr turns the country into one continuous landscape

Adrian Villellas
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May 8, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Railroads still cover an enormous amount of ground in the United States. The Association of American Railroads…..

Economy

A wide-angle view of the Damang open-pit gold mine in Ghana, showing heavy machinery and terraced excavation levels.

A South African gold miner has become the first major casualty of Ghana’s tighter resource-control push, and the move shows how fast Africa’s mining rules are changing

Sonia Ramírez
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May 3, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Ghana plans to take full control of the Damang gold mine on April 18, 2026,…..

Visitors feed a giraffe at Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas

A zoo in the United States is building a $46 million African savanna, and the most striking feature isn’t the giraffes or the rhinos, but a hotel with a direct view of the habitat

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April 21, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Plans are taking shape for a major expansion at Wichita’s Sedgwick County Zoo that could…..

Band of Holes at Monte Sierpe in Peru showing thousands of pits carved into a hillside linked to ancient trade

The 5,200 holes dug into a mountain in Peru are no longer a mystery, and the explanation changes what we knew about their ancient economy

Kevin Montien
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April 19, 2026 at 10:15 AM

For nearly a century, a strange band of thousands of holes carved into a Peruvian…..

Gold bars and coins displayed at auction in France with high-value lots attracting global bidders

It’s very rare to see so much gold in one place: gold bars and nearly 1,000 coins are being auctioned off in France, with a total value exceeding 2 million

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April 19, 2026 at 6:30 AM

In Angers, France, more than €2 million (roughly more than $2.3 million) in gold bars…..

A close-up of a high-efficiency magnet used in electric vehicle motors and wind turbines, designed without rare earth elements.
Copper, gold, and silver rocks representing the major Andes discovery on the Argentina-Chile border
Large fragment of the Aletai iron meteorite seized by Russian customs after smugglers attempted to export it as a garden sculpture.

Russia intercepts a 2.8-ton fragment of the Aletai meteorite, valued at $4.2 million, which was being smuggled out of the country disguised as a simple garden ornament

Sonia Ramírez
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April 2, 2026 at 7:27 AM

Customs officers in Russia say they stopped a 2.8 ton chunk of the Aletai meteorite…..

Bulldog Coaster roller coaster at Brean Theme Park in Somerset, linked to the park’s liquidation and planned reopening

Another theme park goes bankrupt and closes its doors “forever”: what has happened in recent weeks is more serious than it seems

Kevin Montien
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March 23, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Is Brean Theme Park really gone for good? Not exactly. The Somerset attraction entered liquidation…..

Aerial view of a major container port near the Panama Canal, showing cranes, cargo areas, and ships at berth amid the port dispute

The battle for Panama’s ports is entering a new phase, and China has issued a stern warning

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March 22, 2026 at 10:15 AM

Most people will read this as another chapter in the power struggle around the Panama…..

A vast open-pit iron ore mine in Western Australia's Hamersley Province, showcasing the rich red hematite deposits.

Australia has just discovered the largest iron deposit ever recorded, weighing 5.7 billion tons, and the most impressive thing is not its size, but its age

Adrian Villellas
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March 20, 2026 at 6:30 PM

This is not a story about a brand-new mountain of iron suddenly appearing in Australia……

Environment

Fossilized grooves in Adriatic Sea limestone believed to show ancient sea turtle tracks from the Cretaceous period

What looked like a wall full of grooves in the Adriatic Sea turned out to be the trail of hundreds of terrified turtles 79 million years ago

ECONEWS
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May 12, 2026 at 12:30 PM

High above the Adriatic Sea, on a cliff that rock climbers scale for fun, scientists…..

Ocean eddies interacting with a major coastal current linked to warming and hidden upwelling effects

Ocean eddies are driving coastal currents harder than expected, and the swirling forces may be quietly amplifying climate extremes along the world’s shores

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May 11, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Ocean eddies look harmless from the surface, just swirling patches of water that spin off…..

Deep-sea “yellow brick road” pattern of fractured volcanic rock on the seafloor, with small sea life visible around the cracked slabs.

A camera more than a kilometer below the Pacific Ocean found a “yellow brick road” and leaves an uncomfortable question about our seas

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May 11, 2026 at 5:54 AM

In 2022, a remotely-operated vehicle gliding over an underwater mountain north of Hawaiʻi sent back…..

Archaeological excavation revealing human skeletons and burial vaults beneath a former department store in Gloucester

Archaeologists found 317 human skeletons beneath an inhospitable shopping center, and the discovery has turned a modern site into an unexpected ancient cemetery

Adrian Villellas
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May 9, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Workers redeveloping a former Debenhams department store in Gloucester, England, expected the usual surprises that…..

Feral cattle on Amsterdam Island linked to a long-term genetic adaptation study

A herd of cows was abandoned on a deserted island 130 years ago, and a genetic study has now left researchers with a result they did not expect

Sonia Ramírez
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May 9, 2026 at 8:45 AM

When you think of cattle, you probably picture fences and a steady water supply. On…..

Juvenile colossal squid filmed alive in the deep Southern Ocean during a robotic underwater expedition

Researchers descended into the deep sea and filmed one of the ocean’s most elusive squids for the first time, turning a legend of the abyss into visible proof

Sonia Ramírez
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May 8, 2026 at 6:30 PM

A century after the colossal squid was formally described, scientists have finally filmed one alive…..

Record-breaking wild reticulated python rescued in Indonesia amid growing habitat loss concerns

A 7.22-meter python rescued in Indonesia has been recognized as the longest wild snake ever measured, but its record is also a warning about habitat loss

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May 8, 2026 at 3:00 PM

How long can a snake get before the stories stop sounding like campfire talk and…..

Pacific sleeper sharks feeding near a cow carcass during a deep-sea food fall experiment in the South China Sea

China dropped a cow 1,600 meters into the sea and accidentally woke eight mysterious sleepers, revealing deep-ocean life where almost nothing should have moved

Sonia Ramírez
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May 7, 2026 at 5:00 PM

From the shore, the South China Sea can look calm and familiar. About 5,344 feet…..