US & World

By Laura Paddison, CNN Human activity and extreme drought is causing far more damage to the Amazon rainforest than previously thought, exacerbating…

By Laura Paddison, CNN A legal fight in Norway over snow crabs could end up having big implications for access to oil in the Arctic. This week…

By Issy Ronald and Amarachi Orie, CNN From pointing to animated arm movements and nodding, people regularly employ gestures to accompany and create…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN An asteroid the size of a box truck made one of the closest passes of planet Earth ever recorded. The small near-Earth…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Analysis of fossils found in the far north of Canada has revealed that two previously unknown species of ancient…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN Rocket Lab, a prolific launch company that routinely blasts its towering Electron rockets out of New Zealand, conducted its…

By Kate Golembiewski, CNN The zombies are identifiable by the fungi bursting from their bodies: a thicket of spiky tendrils, a miniature garden of…

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN The rotation of Earth‘s inner core may have paused and it could even go into reverse, new research suggests. The Earth…

By Megan Marples, Kristen Rogers and Rachel Ramirez, CNN The Doomsday Clock has been ticking for 76 years. But it’s no ordinary clock. It…

By Laura Paddison, CNN It turns out burps can be big business. Billionaire Bill Gates has announced an investment in Australian start-up Rumin8,…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN During a recent excursion to the icy plains of Antarctica, an international team of researchers discovered five new meteorites…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The James Webb Space Telescope peered inside a wispy molecular cloud located 630 light-years away and spied ices made of…

By Kate Golembiewski, CNN From a deer’s elaborate branching antlers to the fiddler crab’s oversize claw, the animal kingdom is full of…

By Bryn Nelson, CNN In its violent early years, Earth was a molten hellscape that ejected the moon after a fiery collision with another protoplanet,…

By Katie Hunt, CNN To pry open the mysteries of our planet’s past, scientists typically study rocks and fossilized bones. Eggs are an often…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN South Korea’s first lunar probe has returned some striking images of Earth and the moon. The Korean Pathfinder Lunar…

By Amarachi Orie, CNN In the largest DNA analysis of its kind, scientists have found evidence to suggest that historic plague pandemics, such as the…

By Mitchell McCluskey, Caitlin Hu and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Chris Hipkins, New Zealand’s education minister, is bidding to replace Jacinda…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Scientists were able to create a virtual lightning rod using a large, powerful laser atop a mountain in Switzerland,…