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By Katie Hunt, CNN The Black Death, the world’s most devastating plague outbreak, killed half of medieval Europe’s population in the…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN A World War II shipwreck is still leaking explosives and other toxic elements into the ocean floor of the North Sea more…

By Hafsa Khalil, CNN A giant sunfish believed to be the world’s heaviest bony fish has been discovered in the Azores archipelago, Portugal,…

By Mitchell McCluskey and Heather Chen, CNN Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has declared an immediate three-week lockdown in two high risk…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN Nestled in their heated den, the newborn cheetah cubs at Smithsonian’s Conservation Biology Institute spend their days…

By Alaa Elassar, Artemis Moshtaghian and Jennifer Hauser, CNN At least four prisoners were killed and 61 injured after a fire at Evin prison in…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Renowned explorer Robert Ballard has scoured the deep sea for decades in search of its mysteries. Fascinated by Jules…

By Zoe Sottile, CNN This Sunday, a spacecraft called Lucy will be in the sky — just without diamonds. NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will skirt…

By Kostan Nechyporenko, Josh Pennington and Heather Chen, CNN Ukrainian officials say Russian attacks have killed 11 civilians in the past day as the…

By Maija Ehlinger, Gul Tuysuz, Heather Chen and Eyad Kourdi, CNN An explosion inside a coal mine in northern Turkey has killed at least 40 people and…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Black smoke appears to rise from chimney-like formations of the hottest and deepest known hydrothermal vents on Earth. Over…

By Katie Hunt, CNN The skin of a 67-million-year-old dinosaur has revealed bites and gashes from an ancient crocodile, and how its flesh was ripped…

By Hafsa Khalil, CNN The world’s wildlife populations plummeted by an average of 69% between 1970 and 2018, a dangerous decline resulting from…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Astronomers have spotted an unexpected chemical element high within the atmosphere of two sizzling exoplanets where liquid…

By Amy Woodyatt, CNN The video game Pong is such a simple concept, anyone can play — even a dish of brain cells, according to scientists.…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN A new image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope shows rings of dust plumes created by the violent interactions…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN SpaceX said Wednesday that it has booked yet another mission around the moon for a wealthy thrill-seeker on its forthcoming…

By Katie Hunt, CNN NASA has set a date for another attempt at launching its Artemis I mission, after Hurricane Ian forced the space agency to roll…

By Hadas Gold and Abeer Salman, CNN An Israeli soldier has died following a shooting at a military checkpoint in East Jerusalem on Saturday, the…

By Gene Norman and Zoe Sottile, CNN Hurricane Julia made landfall in Nicaragua early Sunday as a Category 1 storm, the National Hurricane Center…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN When astronauts venture aboard the International Space Station, they see a world without borders. They work together while…

By Danya Gainor and Ashley Strickland, CNN October’s full moon is just around the corner and serves as a reminder: the eerie season is fast…

By Christian Edwards, CNN The expression “so hungry I could eat a horse” might not be just a figure of speech — for the Burmese python,…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The world may have a new supercontinent within 200 million to 300 million years as the Pacific Ocean shrinks and closes.…

By Rob Picheta, CNN Human rights groups from Russia and Ukraine — Memorial and the Center for Civil Liberties — have won the Nobel Peace…