Atlas of cells offers a milestone leap in understanding of the human body
By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Each human is a finely tuned orchestra of more than 37 trillion cells. Mapping this little-known world is one of…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Each human is a finely tuned orchestra of more than 37 trillion cells. Mapping this little-known world is one of…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration is swimming against the current to get seven Western states to agree to divvy up the…
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By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — The tallest animal in the world is in trouble. Giraffe populations are declining at such an alarming rate —…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — New images of the sun captured by the Solar Orbiter mission showcase the highest-resolution views of our…
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CNN By Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX aborted a highly anticipated booster catch attempt Tuesday during the sixth…
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By Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX aborted a highly anticipated booster catch attempt Tuesday during the sixth test of…
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By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — A mummified ice age cub from Siberia is the first known mummy of a saber-toothed cat, and its discovery is…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Famously known for its extensive ring system, Saturn is one of four planets in our solar system that have the…
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By Ella Nilsen and Hien An Ngo, CNN (CNN) — High above the sand dunes of China’s Kubuqi desert, nearly 200,000 solar panels have been…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The answers to the biggest questions in space science — what happens inside a black hole, how does a galaxy form…
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By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — Christmas tree farmers across the Northeast are looking decidedly less merry as they struggle to keep their…
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By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — A species of marine worm that scientists lost sight of for almost 70 years has finally resurfaced, thanks to…
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By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — If you saw an enormous, deadly funnel-web spider sitting on her egg sac, your first instinct might be to run away.…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The moon has some new stories to tell. Scientists have published the first detailed analyses of the historic cache…
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By Ella Nilsen and Renée Rigdon, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden’s climate law is on the chopping block as Republicans prepare to have full…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — November’s full moon, otherwise known as the beaver moon, shone bright in the sky on Friday as the last…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — It’s more than 100 feet long, at least 300 years old and visible from space. The world’s largest coral has…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Global levels of planet-heating pollution from fossil fuels will hit record levels this year, according to new…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Researchers have discovered an unlikely new species within the ocean’s midnight zone: a glowing “mystery…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Lucy, a fossilized skeleton unearthed 50 years ago this month, transformed scientists’ understanding of human…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — An enormous, rancid-smelling, 52-foot sperm whale has lain beached on the shoreline of the Caspian Sea, the…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Environmental Protection Agency just finalized one of the Biden administration’s only outstanding climate…
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By Helen Regan, Robert Shackelford and Yumi Asada, CNN (CNN) — Four separate storm systems are churning their way through the West Pacific…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists have identified the site of an ancient battle in what is now Iraq by comparing historical accounts with…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — When the Voyager 2 spacecraft became the first and only mission to fly by Uranus in 1986, it defined the way…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — If Earth’s astronomical observatories were to pick up a signal from outer space, it would require an…
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By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — If you missed the chance to see fireballs of the Southern Taurids light up the sky last week, don’t worry. The…
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By Angela Dewan and Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — America’s allies and foes alike have spent the past five days speculating about what Donald…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — When Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79, it wiped multiple Roman towns off the map — but it also froze them in…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Scientists at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History have peered beneath the wrappings of ancient…
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