Oldest sequenced RNA reveals details about a mammoth’s final moments 40,000 years
By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have recovered ancient molecules of RNA from a juvenile mammoth named Yuka, who died 40,000 years ago in…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have recovered ancient molecules of RNA from a juvenile mammoth named Yuka, who died 40,000 years ago in…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Iceland’s relatively mild climate is shaped by a crucial network of currents that winds its away around the…
Continue ReadingBy Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — A scientist in Japan has developed a technique that uses brain scans and artificial intelligence to turn a…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Researchers have analyzed a sample of DNA believed to belong to Adolf Hitler, which they say reveals the dictator of…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by Amazon multibillionaire Jeff Bezos, launched its towering New Glenn…
Continue ReadingBy Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have newly described three extraordinary species of tree toad that leapfrog over the egg-to-tadpole…
Continue ReadingBy Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Asteroids contain large quantities of both precious and common metals, and despite the obvious challenges in…
Continue ReadingBy Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — Scientists say they have unearthed Australia’s oldest known crocodile eggshells, a discovery that could shed light…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — For two nights, dazzling auroras delighted sky-gazers in unexpected places, including in the US as far south…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom pulled no punches at the COP30 climate talks in Brazil on Tuesday, calling…
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Bumblebees can process the duration of flashes of light and use the information to decide where to look for food, a…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The planet’s biggest climate conference, COP30, has kicked off with representatives from more than 190…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A 62-page document written by President Donald Trump’s on-again-off-again pick to run NASA, billionaire Jared…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Off Brazil’s northeastern coast, where the sediment-heavy water of the vast Amazon River tips out into the…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — New Glenn, the towering orbital rocket that Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin designed to compete with SpaceX’s…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Twin spacecraft are set to take off on an unprecedented, winding journey to Mars, where they will investigate…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have spotted the largest and most distant flare ever observed from a supermassive black hole.…
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — How often do you think about the Roman Empire? For a team of international researchers who went all in and…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Lakes in the Amazon became hotter than the maximum temperature recommended for hot tubs as unprecedented heat…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Ricardo Teixeira has spent the past few weeks freshening up Love Lomas, the “love motel” he owns in the…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Spotted from an airplane by remote sensing equipment, a vast and ancient Maya complex was hidden from view for…
Continue ReadingBy Gina Park, CNN (CNN) — Get ready for a double celestial event this week. November’s full beaver supermoon will peak at 8:19 a.m. ET…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Paleontologists have long wrestled with how to differentiate between male and female dinosaurs based on their…
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By Ella Nilsen, Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Alarm is growing among federal workers at NASA’s iconic Goddard Space Flight Center’s main…
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Scientists working in Mexico have recorded multiple incidents in which a group of orcas hunt young great white sharks…
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration does not intend to send a high-level delegation to the COP30 climate summit — or…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — An Antarctic glacier shrunk by nearly 50% in just two months, the fastest retreat recorded in modern history,…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A suggestion made last week by acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy that SpaceX could be booted from the…
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Scientists say they have found a way to test ancient human remains for hormones linked with pregnancy, a breakthrough…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An interstellar comet that originated outside our solar system just made its closest pass of the sun, setting…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A legendary fossil housed at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh features skeletons apparently…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — During an expedition to search for a famed shipwreck, researchers discovered something unexpected: striking…
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Glowing bats may sound like Halloween decor, but researchers in Georgia have discovered certain species of North…
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The water around Jamaica had been simmering all summer. By the time Hurricane Melissa roared ashore Tuesday,…
Continue ReadingBy Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Recent analysis of two fossils from Australia, estimated to be about 50,000 years old, suggests that…
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Near the end of his reign, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led an army of over half a million men in an…
Continue ReadingBy Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — A type of mosquito that was believed to have evolved in the London Underground has a much older origin in the…
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By Amanda Schupak, CNN (CNN) — In the badlands of eastern Wyoming, the Lance Formation is a trove of prehistoric fossils. And one area in…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A site in the San Juan Basin of northwestern New Mexico is providing a rare glimpse into the last days of the…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Elkhorn and staghorn corals used to carpet Florida’s reef system, rising like antlers from the seabed — but…
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Tropical Storm Melissa is expected to meander the Caribbean at an agonizingly slow pace in the coming days,…
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters Database, which the Trump administration “retired” in May,…
Continue ReadingBy Hadas Gold, Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk lashed out at Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy in a series of insulting posts on his…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Iceland’s frozen, inhospitable winters have long protected it from mosquitoes, but that may be changing. This…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA may sideline SpaceX and choose a different company to land its astronauts on the moon later this decade,…
Continue ReadingBy Gina Park, CNN (CNN) — Sky-gazers worldwide will see a brilliant celestial display this week as the Orionid meteor shower peppers the sky in…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — At the center of our galaxy, there’s a mysterious, diffuse glow given off by gamma rays — powerful radiation…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — A fierce Trump administration push to stop the global shipping industry from paying for its own…
Continue ReadingBy Rebecca Cairns, CNN (CNN) — Affordable, versatile, incredibly strong and locally available, concrete is the world’s most used manmade…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Few city rats have left their mark on the public consciousness — and the urban landscape — like the one…
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