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By Amanda Schupak, CNN (CNN) — Late one summer night in 2023, Kei Jokura entered the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts,…
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By Amanda Schupak, CNN (CNN) — Late one summer night in 2023, Kei Jokura entered the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts,…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The first time Laura Muckenhoupt felt a glimmer of hope after the death of her 22-year-old son Miles was the drive…
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By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — A marine heat wave has killed approximately half of Alaska’s common murre population, marking the largest…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — This year, scientists were able to pull back the curtain on mysteries surrounding figures across history,…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A SpaceX Super Heavy rocket booster as tall as a 20-story building reappeared in the skies over South Texas…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Mount Tambora changed the world. In 1815, the Indonesian volcano exploded in the most powerful eruption in…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The Parker Solar Probe zoomed by the sun on Tuesday during a record-breaking flyby, coming within 3.8 million…
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By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — Dozens of luxury condos, hotels and other buildings in southeast Florida are sinking at a surprising rate,…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Today, the limestone plateau in the United Kingdom’s Mendip Hills is famed for its natural beauty. But around…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Look up to see the Ursid meteor shower, the final celestial display of the year, on Sunday morning. The…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Charred to a crisp, the hundreds of brittle ancient scrolls would crumble if one were to attempt to unfurl them, and…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on a three-word energy policy: “Drill, baby, drill.” But his cabinet…
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By Rosa Rahimi, CNN (CNN) — Researchers on an expedition in Peru have discovered 27 animal species new to science – among them a…
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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A small silver amulet discovered by archaeologists in Germany could transform our understanding of how…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Scientists made a major discovery this year linked to Stonehenge — one of humanity’s biggest mysteries…
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By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Before dinosaurs walked the Earth and tens of millions of years before the first mammals appeared, distant…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration just announced an aggressive target for the US to cut its planet-warming pollution over…
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By Jackie Wattles and Ross Levitt, CNN (CNN) — NASA has announced that it is delaying the SpaceX Crew-10 launch, a move that will keep…
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By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — Traditionally known for stuffing their cheeks with nuts, squirrels can be carnivorous — though recorded…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists working in Arizona have discovered what appear to be the oldest firearms ever found in the continental…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — In one of its last major actions on climate, the Biden administration on Wednesday finalized a key waiver allowing…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — If all goes to plan, Virginia will be the site of the world’s first grid-scale nuclear fusion power plant,…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have spotted seven new examples of a cosmic phenomenon known as dark comets that could help…
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By Isaac Yee, CNN (CNN) — A complete mastodon jaw was unearthed in the backyard of a house in New York, according to the New York State Museum.…
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By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — Microplastics are everywhere. They have been found on the peak of Mount Everest and in creatures inhabiting the…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Flying slowly and silently through the night sky, barn owls are majestic nocturnal hunters that successfully prey on…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of ancient butchered human bones found in a deep shaft in southwest England have pointed…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A group of 38 scientists working in nine countries has sounded an alarm about the potential creation of mirror…
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By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — The world’s largest iceberg is on the move again, drifting through the Southern Ocean after months stuck spinning…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — As the winter nights grow longer, those in the Northern Hemisphere will want to keep an eye out this weekend for…
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