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By Issy Ronald, CNN Chimpanzees may consume the equivalent of about one alcoholic drink per day due to the ethanol contained within the fruit they…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The global water cycle has become “increasingly erratic and extreme” with wild swings between droughts and…

By Taylor Nicioli A “ghost ship” that sank in Lake Michigan nearly 140 years ago and eluded several search efforts over the past five decades has…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A plan to genetically engineer a version of the dodo, a giant flightless bird that disappeared 400 years ago and…

By Bill Weir, CNN Chief Climate Correspondent It was 1985, and improvised empathy was cool. News reports of families starving to death in…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — This summer scientists drilled deep below the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of northeastern US and tapped into a…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have spotted a quasi-moon near Earth — and the small space rock has likely been hanging out…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — New England, long burdened with some of the nation’s highest electricity costs, is facing a growing energy…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Hunter-gatherers in parts of ancient Asia prepared their dead for burial with smoke-drying up to 14,000 years…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Researchers have uncovered an unusual survival strategy in Iberian harvester ants that turns basic biology on…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration on Friday proposed to end a program requiring coal-fired power plants, industrial…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — A clutch of 28 dinosaur eggs found in the Qinglongshan fossil reserve in central China is about 86 million…

By Andrew Freedman, Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA has banned Chinese citizens with US visas from participating in agency programs — a…

By Jacopo Prisco (CNN) — Astronomers have detected a collision between two black holes in unprecedented detail, offering the clearest view yet…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Climate scientists are declaring victory after the Trump administration dissolved a working group of five…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Scientists believe intriguing leopard spots on a rock sampled by the Perseverance rover on Mars last year may…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — For the first time, scientists have quantified the causal links between worsening heat waves and global warming…

CNN By Amy Woodyatt, CNN A vaccine used to treat chlamydia in Australia’s koala population has been approved for rollout, in a world-first project.…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Neuroscientists from 22 labs joined forces in an unprecedented international partnership to produce a landmark…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Humans have wiped out hundreds of species — with many more on the brink or experiencing large declines in…

By Laura Paddison, Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Moonshot proposals to save the planet’s ice sheets, including giant underwater sea curtains and…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Ice creams, frozen desserts and super-chilled sodas take on a new appeal in sticky summer heat. As climate…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Many sky-gazers around the world will get the chance to see a dazzling celestial display this weekend — a…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The arid desert landscape of Death Valley is not the obvious place to find water. Yet it’s here, in one of the…

By Ella Nilsen, Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The Environmental Protection Agency has moved to suspend more than 100 staffers who signed a…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Spaceflight makes certain human stem cells age faster, a new study has found, furthering scientists’…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Offshore wind developers and the attorneys general of Rhode Island and Connecticut are suing the federal government…

By Taylor Nicioli (CNN) — The Shroud of Turin — a 14-foot-long linen cloth bearing an image of a crucified man — has captivated people for…

By Lianne Kolirin and Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — The world’s largest iceberg is “rapidly breaking up” into several large “very large…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Tens of millions of years ago, an apex predator resembling a giant crocodile stalked the humid freshwater…