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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Endangered leopard sharks have been observed mating in the wild for the first time, with scientists witnessing a…
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Endangered leopard sharks have been observed mating in the wild for the first time, with scientists witnessing a…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Surrounding our solar system is a natural and enigmatic cosmic shield called the heliosphere — and a new…
Continue ReadingBy Amarachi Orie, CNN Day-one fans of Taylor Swift know that the pop superstar has come a long way since launching her music career as a country…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Many parts of world are predicted to endure “day-zero droughts,” periods of extreme and unprecedented water…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA on Monday introduced the 10 people — selected from a pool of 8,000 applicants — who will join the…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers are trying to understand what caused a series of gamma ray bursts, or GRBs — the most powerful…
Continue ReadingBy Gina Park, CNN (CNN) — Sky-gazers should get ready for a full day of celestial events on Sunday, including a partial solar eclipse in parts…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A violent storm may have sent two baby pterosaurs spiraling to their deaths in a lagoon about 150 million…
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — A record-breaking and astonishingly expansive marine heat wave is underway in the Pacific Ocean, stretching…
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Ever wondered whether painting a cow with zebra stripes might reduce the number of fly bites it gets, or which pizza…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first…
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN Chimpanzees may consume the equivalent of about one alcoholic drink per day due to the ethanol contained within the fruit they…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The global water cycle has become “increasingly erratic and extreme” with wild swings between droughts and…
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Nicioli A “ghost ship” that sank in Lake Michigan nearly 140 years ago and eluded several search efforts over the past five decades has…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A plan to genetically engineer a version of the dodo, a giant flightless bird that disappeared 400 years ago and…
Continue ReadingBy Bill Weir, CNN Chief Climate Correspondent It was 1985, and improvised empathy was cool. News reports of families starving to death in…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — This summer scientists drilled deep below the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of northeastern US and tapped into a…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have spotted a quasi-moon near Earth — and the small space rock has likely been hanging out…
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — New England, long burdened with some of the nation’s highest electricity costs, is facing a growing energy…
Continue ReadingBy Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Hunter-gatherers in parts of ancient Asia prepared their dead for burial with smoke-drying up to 14,000 years…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Researchers have uncovered an unusual survival strategy in Iberian harvester ants that turns basic biology on…
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration on Friday proposed to end a program requiring coal-fired power plants, industrial…
Continue ReadingBy Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — A clutch of 28 dinosaur eggs found in the Qinglongshan fossil reserve in central China is about 86 million…
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Freedman, Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA has banned Chinese citizens with US visas from participating in agency programs — a…
Continue ReadingBy Jacopo Prisco (CNN) — Astronomers have detected a collision between two black holes in unprecedented detail, offering the clearest view yet…
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Climate scientists are declaring victory after the Trump administration dissolved a working group of five…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Scientists believe intriguing leopard spots on a rock sampled by the Perseverance rover on Mars last year may…
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By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — For the first time, scientists have quantified the causal links between worsening heat waves and global warming…
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CNN By Amy Woodyatt, CNN A vaccine used to treat chlamydia in Australia’s koala population has been approved for rollout, in a world-first project.…
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By Amy Woodyatt, CNN A vaccine used to treat chlamydia in Australia’s koala population has been approved for rollout, in a world-first project.…
Continue ReadingBy Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Neuroscientists from 22 labs joined forces in an unprecedented international partnership to produce a landmark…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Humans have wiped out hundreds of species — with many more on the brink or experiencing large declines in…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Moonshot proposals to save the planet’s ice sheets, including giant underwater sea curtains and…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Ice creams, frozen desserts and super-chilled sodas take on a new appeal in sticky summer heat. As climate…
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Many sky-gazers around the world will get the chance to see a dazzling celestial display this weekend — a…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The arid desert landscape of Death Valley is not the obvious place to find water. Yet it’s here, in one of the…
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The Environmental Protection Agency has moved to suspend more than 100 staffers who signed a…
Continue ReadingBy Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Spaceflight makes certain human stem cells age faster, a new study has found, furthering scientists’…
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Offshore wind developers and the attorneys general of Rhode Island and Connecticut are suing the federal government…
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Nicioli (CNN) — The Shroud of Turin — a 14-foot-long linen cloth bearing an image of a crucified man — has captivated people for…
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin and Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — The world’s largest iceberg is “rapidly breaking up” into several large “very large…
Continue ReadingBy Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Tens of millions of years ago, an apex predator resembling a giant crocodile stalked the humid freshwater…
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By Issy Ronald and Amarachi Orie, CNN Glow-in-the-dark plants bright enough to light up streets at night may sound like the stuff of science fiction…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will move the military’s US Space Command to…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — A beach in Melbourne, Australia has been bathed in a “ethereal glow” at nighttime this week thanks to…
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — More than 85 veteran climate scientists have pushed back against a Trump administration report downplaying the…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN A powerful solar storm is expected to reach Earth on Monday evening, potentially triggering a display of northern lights…
Continue ReadingCNN By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Forty years ago, in the early hours of September 1, grainy black-and-white images of a metal cylinder appeared…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Forty years ago, in the early hours of September 1, grainy black-and-white images of a metal cylinder appeared on…
Continue ReadingBy Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — A well-preserved human skeleton that scientists recently excavated in Vietnam dates back about 12,000 years…
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