Scientists reconstruct 10,500-year-old woman’s face using DNA
By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Researchers studying the remains of a prehistoric woman who lived around 10,500 years ago in what is now Belgium have…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Researchers studying the remains of a prehistoric woman who lived around 10,500 years ago in what is now Belgium have…
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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists have assembled the “world’s most difficult jigsaw puzzle” to reveal huge frescoes that once…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — An enigmatic skull recovered from the bottom of a well in northeastern China in 2018 sparked intrigue when it…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Rising global temperatures are set to devastate food crops across the world, with particularly alarming impacts…
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By Kameryn Griesser, CNN (CNN) — Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have used mysterious fast radio bursts, or millisecond-long bright flashes of radio waves from…
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By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The human fingerprint on global warming was likely evident in Earth’s atmosphere far earlier than previously…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Two well-preserved ice age “puppies” found in Northern Siberia may not be dogs at all, according to new…
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By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — The sun was setting on a busy London street on a May evening in 1337 when a group of men approached a priest…
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By Kameryn Griesser, CNN (CNN) — A tiny creature with frilly gills, a polite smile and glowing green skin just gave scientists a major clue to…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have identified a previously unknown 86 million-year-old dinosaur species that fills an early gap…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to scrap two major federal regulations that limit air pollution…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — New research revealing details of gold coins found aboard a shipwreck off Colombia provides further evidence that the…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The collapse of a crucial network of Atlantic Ocean currents could push parts of the world into a deep freeze,…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Scientists studying ancient human remains uncovered in Colombia have found that the people they were researching have…
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By Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Climate lawyers are taking the New Zealand government to court, alleging its plan to reduce planet-heating…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — An accidental discovery might change how we think about one of the most mysterious structures in our solar…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — June’s full moon, nicknamed the strawberry moon, will shine brightly on Tuesday night and Wednesday…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — As scientists search for worlds that may be habitable for life, they’ve discovered a type that is common in…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN Many of the Dead Sea Scrolls, some of the most widely known archaeological finds of all time, may be older than once thought,…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Jan Beutel was half-watching a live stream of Kleines Nesthorn, a mountain peak in the Swiss Alps, when he…
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By Morgan Severson, CNN (CNN) — Gloves, a fur coat and a bear mask. This outfit might sound like avant-garde fashion, but it’s actually the…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A tiny sign revealed in April seemed like it might change the universe as we know it. Astronomers had…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — An aging coal power plant that was supposed to shutter last week will run throughout the summer at the order of…
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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A 19th century ship that sank nearly 140 years ago has been found “frozen in time” off Britain’s coast.…
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By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — NASA scientists are in a state of anxious limbo after the Trump administration proposed a budget that would…
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By Kameryn Griesser, CNN (CNN) — Nature seems to offer an escape from the hustle and bustle of city life, but the world at your feet may tell…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Nearly five months ago, a SpaceX rocket launched out of Florida carrying two lunar landers. The Blue Ghost…
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By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — One of the bleakest periods in medieval Europe was the plague pandemic known as the Black Death, which killed…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and its largest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, predicted to occur…
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