Month: May 2023

By Adie Vanessa Offiong, CNN On September 22, 2020 while out filming, Indigenous Guatemalan journalist Andrea Ixchíu Hernández was attacked shortly after she had reported illegal loggers operating in the Totonicapán forest. “One of them hit me on the head, the other one on my chest and on my knee,” she tells CNN, recounting the

By Katie Hunt, CNN Traces of ancient DNA contained in old bones have spilled fascinating secrets about the past. But extracting genetic material involves a certain amount of damage to the object in question, and many archaeologists have been reluctant to hand over their most precious finds to DNA labs. Now, scientists have found a

By Jack Guy In a world first, scientists have observed the moment that a dying star consumed a planet — a fate that eventually awaits Earth. While astronomers have previously seen planets just before and just after being engulfed by a star, this is the first time that a planetary demise has been observed, according

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Traces of ancient hormones were detected in the tusks of a woolly mammoth that lived more than 33,000 years ago, revealing that the now-extinct creatures had episodes of raging testosterone. The findings provide what researchers believe to be the first direct evidence that, like elephants, mammoths also experienced musth. A study