War in Iran has US gas prices spiking. Drilling for more oil here won’t fix things
By Ella Nilsen, Amy O’Kruk, Samuel Hart, CNN (CNN) — The current war in the Middle East has sent the price of oil spiking — and with it, US…
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By Ella Nilsen, Amy O’Kruk, Samuel Hart, CNN (CNN) — The current war in the Middle East has sent the price of oil spiking — and with it, US…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — In 2022, a NASA spacecraft intentionally barreled into the tiny asteroid Dimorphos during a planetary defense…
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By Sam Peters, CNN (CNN) — Ancient European hunter-gatherers were far more advanced in their cooking methods than previously thought, a new…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Scientists can now come face to face with an early human ancestor nicknamed Little Foot who lived 3.67…
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By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — There was a decisive winner to the Lower 48 states’ split screen winter — a battle between frigid cold in…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Within 24 hours of the first US-Israeli strikes on Iran, ships in the region’s waters found their navigation…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Is the world getting hotter, faster? It’s a big question which has been puzzling and dividing scientists for…
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By Asuka Koda, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have captured the most complete, high-resolution map of the cold gas at the center of the Milky Way,…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — A federal deadline came and went this week for oil companies to bid on around 1 million acres of drilling territory…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Scientists are one step closer to understanding the origins of complex life on Earth after shedding new light…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Sea levels along the world’s coastlines are much higher than previously assumed, more than 3 feet in some…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have spotted a galaxy so faint, it’s almost invisible — a discovery that could help illuminate…
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By Lily Hautau, CNN (CNN) — A total lunar eclipse is turning the moon a deep reddish-orange on Tuesday for sky-gazers in Asia, Australia, the…
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By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — In the waters off Singapore, a recently uncovered a shipwreck with a huge cargo of blue-and-white porcelain is…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA on Friday announced an abrupt change to its pathway to getting astronauts back on the lunar surface, opting…
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By Lily Hautau, CNN (CNN) — Sky-gazers will have the opportunity to see six planets in the sky on Saturday, weather permitting, according to…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The 2010 discovery that early humans and Neanderthals once encountered one another and had babies was a scientific…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Veteran NASA astronaut Mike Fincke has confirmed that he was the crew member who had a concerning “medical…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Symbols and markings carved into tools and figurines by Stone Age humans over 40,000 years ago could be an…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A mother-and-daughter team of citizen scientists has identified the world’s largest known coral colony, found on the…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Efforts to get NASA’s historic moon mission off the ground have stalled once again, as engineers navigate a…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Last week, the Trump administration delivered a catastrophic blow to US climate policy by repealing the…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is one of the solar system’s oddities. Now, researchers have unlocked key…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — In the depths of Scarisoara cave in Romania sits one of the world’s biggest underground glaciers, a monumental…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — When scientists with the National Center for Wildlife in Saudi Arabia were surveying caves in search of wildlife…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists in Spain have uncovered an elephant bone from 2,200 years ago, and they believe it belonged to an…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The botched test flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft — a protracted saga that kept two astronauts in…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — If all had gone according to plan, four astronauts might have been returning just this week from a…
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By Lily Hautau, CNN (CNN) — A “ring of fire” solar eclipse on Tuesday will mark the first eclipse of 2026, but only about 2% of the…
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By Jacopo Prisco, Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — As he took his final steps before leaving the moon, Apollo 17 commander Gene Cernan had some…
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