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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — “Jurassic Park,” and its genetically modified dinosaur escapees, is pure science fiction — it’s never going…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The best minds in science will be thrust from academic obscurity into the spotlight this week when the Nobel Prizes…

By Kate Golembiewski, CNN (CNN) — You have probably seen leaf-cutter ants carrying bits of plants, maybe in a nature documentary, at a science…

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — For humans, flashing a smile is an easy way to avoid misunderstanding. And, according to a new study, bottlenose…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Parts of icy Antarctica are turning green with plant life at an alarming rate as the region is gripped by…

By Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — If snapshots of the dazzling “ring of fire” that danced across the skies of South…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Botanists have grown a long-lost tree species from a 1,000-year-old seed found in a cave in the Judean Desert in the…

By Amy Gunia and Alkira Reinfrank, CNN (CNN) — Apollo mission astronauts who visited the moon between 1969 and 1972 found a hopping motion…

CNN By Steve Almasy, CNN (CNN) — A week ago, Helene was plowing into Florida, thrashing cities and towns on the Gulf Coast while millions of…

CNN By Laura Paddison and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — Asheville was touted as a climate haven, a place to escape the worst ravages of extreme…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The NASA team overseeing the iconic Voyager 2 spacecraft made the decision to power down one of its science…

By Laura Paddison and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — Asheville was touted as a climate haven, a place to escape the worst ravages of extreme weather.…

By Jack Guy, CNN London (CNN) — A medallion containing some of the original mold involved in the discovery of penicillin is expected to fetch…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A solar eclipse event will create a “ring of fire” in the skies over parts of South America on Wednesday,…

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists in Denmark have unearthed more than 50 “exceptionally well preserved” skeletons in a large…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Part of the border between Italy and Switzerland is set to be redrawn as the glaciers that mark the boundary…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of years ago in the Himalayas, a river ate a smaller river and gave an unexpected boost to…

Story by Associated Press (CNN) — Britain’s last coal-fired power plant will close on Monday, ending 142 years of coal-generated electricity…

By Laura Paddison and Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN (CNN) — Huge tributaries that feed the mighty Amazon River — the largest on the planet —…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — After their weeklong journey turned into a monthslong stay on the International Space Station, two Boeing…

CNN By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — After their weeklong journey turned into a monthslong stay on the International Space Station, two Boeing…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Today, the lush, green valley surrounding the Tollense River in northeast Germany appears to be a serene…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A SpaceX mission due to unite the Boeing Starliner astronauts with the spacecraft that will bring them home has…

By Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — Two climate activists in their early 20s were sentenced to prison by a London court Friday for throwing soup…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists working in Peru, assisted by artificial intelligence, have discovered 303 previously unknown giant…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — No trees have grown on the windswept Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean for tens of thousands of years —…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Some types of sea robins, a peculiar bottom-dwelling ocean fish, use taste bud-covered legs to sense and dig…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — It was an orca-versus-dolphin matchup, and the dolphin didn’t stand a chance. In coastal waters near Chile…

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have uncovered a woolly rhino so well preserved in the Russian permafrost for more than 32,000 years…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Bronze Age desert dwellers unearthed from graves in what’s now northwest China were buried with cheese scattered…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have observed a massive pair of jets releasing from a supermassive black hole 7.5 billion…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have discovered a new species of ghost shark that lives in deep ocean waters near Australia and New…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — A mysterious type of magma found within extinct volcanoes scattered around the world could contain an abundant…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A new analysis of dozens of arrowheads is helping researchers piece together a clearer portrait of the…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden will speak at Climate Week NYC on Tuesday, touting his administration’s vast climate agenda…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Komodo dragons with iron-tipped teeth. Thirteen-foot-long pythons. Attacking crocs. Of the five main classes of…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — On a summer’s evening in 2019, Zach Sheldon watched huge chunks of ice break off Valdez Glacier in Alaska as…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — “His birth was unknown, his death hidden.” So reads the headstone (translated from Latin) marking the…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Earth is about to gain a new “mini-moon,” but it won’t stay around for long. The newly discovered…

By Rosa Rahimi, CNN London (CNN) — Scientists in the United Kingdom have stored the entire human genome on a “5D memory crystal,” in the…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Scientists using ice-breaking ships and underwater robots have found the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is…