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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Earth is spinning faster this summer, making the days marginally shorter and attracting the attention of…
Continue ReadingBy Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Earth is spinning faster this summer, making the days marginally shorter and attracting the attention of…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A group of 287 scientists and current and former NASA employees has issued a declaration lambasting budget cuts,…
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Once synonymous with leisure and reprieve, summer has increasingly become a season marked by anxiety and…
Continue ReadingBy Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Lesser known than some other beloved tales of larger-than-life heroes such as Gilgamesh, Beowulf and King…
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A Ceratosaurus fossil that is one of only four known to exist has sold for $30.5 million at auction. The rare dinosaur…
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — The phrase “leave no stone unturned” has taken on new meaning for paleontologists at the Denver Museum of…
Continue ReadingBy Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The strongest nor’easters — destructive and often deadly storms that slap the US East Coast with paralyzing…
Continue ReadingBy Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury,…
Continue ReadingBy Kameryn Griesser, CNN (CNN) — An ancient Roman mystery is afoot in the rolling hills of northern Britain. Archaeologists have unearthed a…
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Chimpanzees living in a sanctuary in Africa have developed a “fashion trend” for dangling blades of grass or…
Continue ReadingBy Gina Park, CNN (CNN) — Skygazers can look toward the horizon this week to catch a glimpse of the full moon around its peak illumination.…
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — When researcher Jared Towers set up his cameras underwater to observe a pair of killer whales, he saw something…
Continue ReadingBy Kameryn Griesser, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of millions of flies dropping from planes in the sky might sound like a horrible nightmare, but…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A species of huge, flightless bird that once inhabited New Zealand disappeared around 600 years ago, shortly after…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Extreme heat is a killer and its impact is becoming far, far deadlier as the human-caused climate crisis…
Continue ReadingBy Olivia Kemp, CNN (CNN) — An ancient Peruvian city that was a thriving hub of trade more than 3,000 years ago has been unveiled by…
Continue ReadingBy Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — A galaxy that has remained unchanged for 7 billion years — a rarity in the universe — has been observed by…
Continue ReadingCNN By Renée Rigdon, Angela Fritz, CNN (CNN) — The waterways in Texas Hill Country have carved paths over the centuries through the granite…
Continue ReadingBy Renée Rigdon, Angela Fritz, CNN (CNN) — The waterways in Texas Hill Country have carved paths over the centuries through the granite and…
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Freedman, Emma Tucker, Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — The forces that descended upon the Guadalupe River in Texas’ Hill Country on…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A newly discovered object speeding through our solar system is sparking excitement among astronomers because…
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, Rene Marsh, CNN (CNN) — The Environmental Protection Agency has placed roughly 140 employees on administrative leave days after…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, Chris Liakos, CNN (CNN) — More than 200 firefighters are struggling to tackle an out-of-control wildfire on Crete —…
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The visitors who trek to America’s national parks are already noticing the changes, just months after President…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — In a long-sought first, researchers have sequenced the entire genome of an ancient Egyptian person, revealing…
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars on Earth is expected to fetch up to $4 million when it goes up for…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — A brutal heat wave is gripping many parts of Europe, leaving millions of people struggling…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Around 252 million years ago, life on Earth suffered its most catastrophic blow to date: a mass extinction event…
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Crouched low in one of the coldest, remotest places on Earth, polar explorer Alan Chambers searched for an…
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