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By Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Climate lawyers are taking the New Zealand government to court, alleging its plan to reduce planet-heating…
Continue ReadingBy Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Climate lawyers are taking the New Zealand government to court, alleging its plan to reduce planet-heating…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — An accidental discovery might change how we think about one of the most mysterious structures in our solar…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — June’s full moon, nicknamed the strawberry moon, will shine brightly on Tuesday night and Wednesday…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — As scientists search for worlds that may be habitable for life, they’ve discovered a type that is common in…
Continue ReadingBy Jacopo Prisco, CNN Many of the Dead Sea Scrolls, some of the most widely known archaeological finds of all time, may be older than once thought,…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Jan Beutel was half-watching a live stream of Kleines Nesthorn, a mountain peak in the Swiss Alps, when he…
Continue ReadingBy Morgan Severson, CNN (CNN) — Gloves, a fur coat and a bear mask. This outfit might sound like avant-garde fashion, but it’s actually the…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A tiny sign revealed in April seemed like it might change the universe as we know it. Astronomers had…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — An aging coal power plant that was supposed to shutter last week will run throughout the summer at the order of…
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A 19th century ship that sank nearly 140 years ago has been found “frozen in time” off Britain’s coast.…
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By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — NASA scientists are in a state of anxious limbo after the Trump administration proposed a budget that would…
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By Kameryn Griesser, CNN (CNN) — Nature seems to offer an escape from the hustle and bustle of city life, but the world at your feet may tell…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Nearly five months ago, a SpaceX rocket launched out of Florida carrying two lunar landers. The Blue Ghost…
Continue ReadingBy Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — One of the bleakest periods in medieval Europe was the plague pandemic known as the Black Death, which killed…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and its largest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, predicted to occur…
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — The world’s glaciers are in dire health with almost 40% of their total mass already doomed, even if global…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — For a long time, there has been a missing puzzle piece in Jerusalem’s history. Though ancient texts offered…
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Deep below the surface of the ground in one of the driest parts of the country, there is a looming problem: The…
Continue ReadingBy Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Gold and other precious metals are leaking from Earth’s core into the layers above, eventually making their way…
Continue ReadingBy Alysha Bibi and Diego Mendoza, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a nearly 3,000-year-old Mayan complex in Guatemala,…
Continue ReadingBy Rosa Rahimi, CNN (CNN) — Researchers in central Spain say they may have uncovered one of the most ancient symbolic objects bearing a human…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists in Jerusalem say they have discovered a roughly 2,300-year-old gold ring with a red gemstone…
Continue ReadingBy Nell Lewis, CNN (CNN) — Last October, four female eastern lowland gorillas were airlifted from their home in Kasuhgo, the Democratic…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Attorneys general from 16 mostly Democrat-controlled US states filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration…
Continue ReadingBy Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Etched onto rocks on a remote peninsula in Western Australia are millions of images drawn…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — China has launched an ambitious mission to study two intriguing objects in our solar system, the likes of…
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Global temperatures are forecast to reach record or near-record levels during the next five years, setting the…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have detected an astonishing celestial object emitting bright flashes of radio waves and X-rays…
Continue ReadingBy Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — What scientists understand about the voracious feeding habits of the colossal megalodon could be up for some…
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Forget marching in the streets with creative signs. For President Donald Trump’s second term, in the face of…
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By Rosa Rahimi and Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — Three tombs dating back thousands of years have been unearthed in an ancient Egyptian burial…
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Environmental Protection Agency is drafting a proposed regulation that would end all federal limits on…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An Anglo-Saxon ship found at the Sutton Hoo estate in Suffolk, England, has long captivated history…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists have uncovered a key component of a mysterious artifact at Sutton Hoo, a National Trust site…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Infection-causing fungi responsible for millions of deaths a year will spread significantly to new regions as…
Continue ReadingBy Kameryn Griesser, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have for the first time spotted two galaxies in the throes of a deep-space “duel.” Using combined…
Continue ReadingBy Amanda Schupak, CNN (CNN) — A new study may have uncovered exactly what makes orange cats special — though it might not be for the reason…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — On a remote, crescent-shaped island surrounded by crystal-clear ocean live some of the most plastic-contaminated…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Distinct clawed footprints found on a slab of 356 million-year-old rock from Australia suggest that reptile…
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Clownfish, a small orange and white species made famous by the “Finding Nemo” movies, have been found to shrink in…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The sensitive interior of human teeth might have originated from a seemingly unlikely place: sensory tissue…
Continue ReadingBy Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — When a fossil preserves an animal’s complete body in a death pose, seeing it is observing a snapshot in…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Ten gold bracelets, 17 cigar cases, a powder compact, a comb, and a whopping 598 gold coins: The items are all part…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The world’s ice sheets are on course for runaway melting, leading to multiple feet of sea level rise and…
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Sometime between today and 200 years from now, scientists say “the big one” will hit the United States. There…
Continue ReadingBy Marlowe Starling, CNN (CNN) — At first, behavioral ecologist Zoë Goldsborough thought the small figure seen on the back of a capuchin…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, Rene Marsh, CNN (CNN) — Last summer, an abandoned factory in southwest Memphis got a new life courtesy of the world’s…
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Climate change should be considered a new core aspect of creditworthiness when prospective home buyers apply…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that four people, including a child, in the ancient Roman town of…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — With the help of more than five dozen fossils, paleontologists have uncovered a tiny three-eyed predator…
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