
Scientists used DNA to unlock who wore a 25,000-year-old pendant
By Ashley Strickland, CNN One of the great rewards for any scientist or researcher is the joy of unexpected discovery. It’s the kind of feeling…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN One of the great rewards for any scientist or researcher is the joy of unexpected discovery. It’s the kind of feeling…
Continue ReadingBy Tatiana Arias, Eyad Kourdi, Heather Chen, Jorge Engels and Hafsa Khalil, CNN The rival military factions fighting for control in Sudan are to hold…
Continue ReadingBy Mindy Weisberger, CNN Translucent, fragile marine creatures that drift through the sea are riding the motion of the ocean to a destination…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN Ocean surface heat is at record-breaking levels. Temperatures began climbing in mid-March and skyrocketed over the course of…
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Nicioli, CNN With bright meteors blazing across the sky from the Aquariids meteor shower and a chance to see a lunar eclipse, Friday will…
Continue ReadingBy Adie Vanessa Offiong, CNN On September 22, 2020 while out filming, Indigenous Guatemalan journalist Andrea IxchÃu Hernández was attacked shortly…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN Traces of ancient DNA contained in old bones have spilled fascinating secrets about the past. But extracting genetic material…
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy In a world first, scientists have observed the moment that a dying star consumed a planet — a fate that eventually awaits Earth. While…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN Traces of ancient hormones were detected in the tusks of a woolly mammoth that lived more than 33,000 years ago, revealing…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN The James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapor around a rocky exoplanet that orbits a star located 26 light-years…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN Exceptionally well-preserved fossils of tiny worms, starfish, sponges, barnacles and other creatures with no modern parallel…
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Nicioli, CNN Archaeologists in Livorno, Italy, are putting together the pieces of a great mystery that began with a stunning find. While…
Continue ReadingBy Josh Pennington, CNN The head of the Russian private military company Wagner has threatened to withdraw his mercenaries from the embattled eastern…
Continue ReadingBy Balint Bardi, Antonia Mortensen, Eleanor Pickston and Heather Chen, CNN A far-right activist convicted of terrorism was among several prisoners…
Continue ReadingBy Heather Chen and Mariya Knight, CNN A mural depicting a fallen Ukrainian soldier executed by Russian forces in 2022 has appeared in the heart of…
Continue ReadingBy Mitchell McCluskey, Eyad Kourdi, Heather Chen and CNN journalists in Sudan Red Cross aid landed in Sudan for the first time since fighting broke…
Continue ReadingBy Sahar Akbarzai and Heather Chen, CNN The daughter of jailed Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny says her father’s health is…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles and Danya Gainor, CNN Since SpaceX’s inaugural test flight of the most powerful rocket ever constructed, the company’s…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN In some ways, Earth’s oceans are as alien to us as distant moons in the solar system. The vast bodies of water cover…
Continue ReadingBy Kareem El Damanhoury and Heather Chen, CNN Three civilians were injured and a gas station set on fire early Saturday near the Syrian city of Homs…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN One of Earth’s largest habitats could see its rich diversity of life reduced by the end of the century due to the…
Continue ReadingBy Tim Lister, CNN New research has revealed the extent to which Iran has built a powerful weapons industry based on Western technology, and how that…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN Researchers have embarked on an ambitious global initiative to discover and record marine life hidden in the world’s oceans.…
Continue ReadingBy Mostafa Salem and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan largely canceled two days of campaigning as crucial elections loom…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN Astronomers have captured for the first time the shadow of a black hole and the powerful jet of material emerging from it…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN Nature documentaries have never been more visually breathtaking — drone footage and high-definition photography make watching…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN Astronomers first discovered quasars, considered to be the brightest and most powerful objects in the universe, 60 years…
Continue ReadingBy Richard Roth and Hira Humayun, CNN Haiti’s crime rate has more than doubled since last year, as the Caribbean island nation faces widespread…
Continue ReadingBy Heather Chen, CNN Philip Mehrtens, the New Zealand pilot held hostage by separatist fighters in Indonesia’s restive Papua region, has…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN Black holes have a reputation for snacking on stars, but some of these celestial garbage disposals may be messier than…
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