What scientists say about the real-life zombie fungi that inspired ‘The Last of Us’
By Kate Golembiewski, CNN The zombies are identifiable by the fungi bursting from their bodies: a thicket of spiky tendrils, a miniature garden of…
Continue ReadingBy Kate Golembiewski, CNN The zombies are identifiable by the fungi bursting from their bodies: a thicket of spiky tendrils, a miniature garden of…
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin, CNN The rotation of Earth‘s inner core may have paused and it could even go into reverse, new research suggests. The Earth…
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hauser and Angela Fritz, CNN An iceberg nearly the size of Greater London broke off the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica on Sunday according…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN A nuclear thermal rocket engine in development could one day transport humans to Mars. The Defense Advanced Research Projects…
Continue ReadingBy Megan Marples, Kristen Rogers and Rachel Ramirez, CNN The Doomsday Clock has been ticking for 76 years. But it’s no ordinary clock. It…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN It turns out burps can be big business. Billionaire Bill Gates has announced an investment in Australian start-up Rumin8,…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN During a recent excursion to the icy plains of Antarctica, an international team of researchers discovered five new meteorites…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN The James Webb Space Telescope peered inside a wispy molecular cloud located 630 light-years away and spied ices made of…
Continue ReadingBy Kate Golembiewski, CNN From a deer’s elaborate branching antlers to the fiddler crab’s oversize claw, the animal kingdom is full of…
Continue ReadingBy Bryn Nelson, CNN In its violent early years, Earth was a molten hellscape that ejected the moon after a fiery collision with another protoplanet,…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN To pry open the mysteries of our planet’s past, scientists typically study rocks and fossilized bones. Eggs are an often…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN South Korea’s first lunar probe has returned some striking images of Earth and the moon. The Korean Pathfinder Lunar…
Continue ReadingBy Amarachi Orie, CNN In the largest DNA analysis of its kind, scientists have found evidence to suggest that historic plague pandemics, such as the…
Continue ReadingBy Mitchell McCluskey, Caitlin Hu and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Chris Hipkins, New Zealand’s education minister, is bidding to replace Jacinda…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN Scientists were able to create a virtual lightning rod using a large, powerful laser atop a mountain in Switzerland,…
Continue ReadingBy Heather Chen, Angus Watson, Mitchell McCluskey and Stefano Pozzebon, CNN A man who spent 24 days adrift in the Caribbean Sea says he survived by…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN Climate change is sending the world hurtling towards a series of catastrophic tipping points, which risk setting off feedback…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN A new survey of the Milky Way galaxy has unveiled 3.3 billion celestial objects. Our galaxy is brimming with hundreds of…
Continue ReadingBy Kristen Rogers, CNN The world’s population of North Atlantic right whales has been decimated in recent years by human-caused vessel strikes…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN SpaceX fired a new GPS satellite into orbit on behalf of the US military on Wednesday, continuing an effort to bolster the…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN Paleontologists working in central India have made a rare discovery — a fossilized dinosaur hatchery with 92 nests and 256 eggs…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN Australia’s echidna has developed a curious way to cool off — blowing bubbles out of its beaklike snout. The…
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Ramirez, CNN As humans fiddle with the planet’s thermostat, scientists are piecing together Greenland’s history by drilling ice…
Continue ReadingBy Jorge Engels, Philip Wang and Emma Tucker, CNN Romanian authorities said they have seized nearly $4 million worth of assets belonging to…
Continue ReadingOriginally Published: 15 JAN 23 02:40 ET Updated: 15 JAN 23 09:02 ET By Asha Thapa, Kathleen Magramo and Sugam Pokharel, CNN (CNN) — At…
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile, CNN Extremely rare — and extremely adorable. The Chester Zoo in Cheshire, England, has welcomed the birth of a Western…
Continue ReadingBy Hadas Gold, Michael Schwartz and Amir Tal, CNN Tens of thousands of people protested in Tel Aviv Saturday night against Israeli Prime Minister…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN There are more than 5,000 known worlds beyond our solar system. Since the 1990s, astronomers have used ground and…
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile, CNN A study has found that dolphins are unable to communicate as effectively when exposed to human-generated noises, forcing them to…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN Almost 40 million years ago a flower bloomed in a Baltic conifer forest. Dripping tree resin encased the petals and pollen,…
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