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By Katie Hunt, CNN Catnip isn’t just intensely pleasurable for cats. It’s also practical. When your feline friend rubs, rolls against,…

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, son of late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. Personal Birth date: June 25,…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN For the first time, the Hubble Space Telescope has detected a lone object drifting through our Milky Way galaxy — the…

Story by Reuters Australia’s dancing substitute goalkeeper Andrew Redmayne saved the last penalty to clinch a place at this year’s World…

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting. In 2023, Ramadan is expected to begin at sundown on March 22 and…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN A male mastodon died fighting with a rival during mating season about 13,200 years ago in what is now northeast Indiana.…

By Katie Hunt, CNN Strange and unexpected tsunami-like starquakes — movements on stars’ crusts similar to earthquakes we experience on…

By Rachel Fadem and Ashley Strickland, CNN June’s full moon, the strawberry moon, will illuminate the sky this week. The moon will appear full…

By Katie Hunt, CNN The stereotypes of dominant male and docile female creatures have shaped zoology since the time of Charles Darwin. This…

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of musician Paul McCartney, former member of the Beatles. Personal Birth date: June 18, 1942 Birth…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN It’s a distinctly human trait to believe the impossible is a puzzle waiting to be solved. We’re driven to…

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the solstice. The next summer solstice will take place on June 21, 2022. The next winter solstice will take…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN When a small female tortoise was spotted in 2019 on the inaccessible volcanic island of Fernandina in the Galapagos,…

By Megan Marples, CNN Skin has traditionally been reserved for animals — until now. For the first time, scientists learned to grow humanlike…

By Max Foster and Rob Picheta, CNN Homelessness and long-term unemployment aren’t problems we generally associate with the royals, who’ve…

By Megan Marples, CNN The Perseverance rover made friends with a pet rock about four months ago, and the two have been inseparable ever since. A rock…

By Katie Hunt and Ashley Strickland, CNN NASA is putting a team together to study unidentified aerial phenomena, popularly known as UFOs, the US…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Astronomers have detected a mysterious, repeating fast radio burst emanating from a dwarf galaxy located 3 billion…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. Personal Birth date: June 19, 1951 Death date: July 31,…

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN The amount of money needed to aid communities in the face of extreme weather-related emergencies has increased by more than…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN NASA will launch a mission that will both fly by Venus and descend through its harsh atmosphere in 2029. Called DAVINCI,…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Just a couple of weeks after the Ingenuity helicopter celebrated a year of flying on Mars, things got quiet. For the first…

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Humans’ historical greenhouse gas emissions have caused the climate crisis the world is in today. But it’s the…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN “The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.” This Sherlock Holmes quote from…