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By Katie Hunt, CNN Neanderthal is an insult still lobbed about to suggest someone is dim-witted and out of touch. The more we learn about our Stone…

By Zoe Sottile, CNN If you have always suspected that you might just be a mosquito magnet, scientists now have evidence for you: Mosquitoes indeed…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN The Hubble Space Telescope captured a new snapshot of the asteroid that NASA recently slammed with a spacecraft in an attempt…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN The wreckage of a rare boat — one of the last of its kind to be located — has been identified at the bottom of Lake…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN One of nature’s most anticipated light shows is set to climax this week, as space debris and dust trails from the famous…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN The James Webb Space Telescope captured a highly detailed snapshot of the so-called Pillars of Creation, a vista of three…

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…