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By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have newly identified a “supergiant” sea bug species after purchasing crustaceans from fishermen and restaurants in Vietnam to study the growing popularity of the creatures as a local delicacy. The deep-sea critter, now called Bathynomus vaderi, got its name after researchers noticed its head shared a resemblance to

By Amarachi Orie and Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — Elite ancient Romans would treat their guests to relaxing thermal baths when they came to enjoy the merriment of a large feast, a new discovery at the archaeological site of Pompeii has shown. Inside a residential house, archaeologists have uncovered one of the largest and

CNN By Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX’s colossal Starship launch system lifted off on its seventh uncrewed test flight Thursday, with an upgraded version of the megarocket embarking on the program’s most ambitious flight to date. SpaceX was able to duplicate its prior feat of catching a booster that returned to

By Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX’s colossal Starship launch system lifted off on its seventh uncrewed test flight Thursday, with an upgraded version of the megarocket embarking on the program’s most ambitious flight to date. SpaceX was able to duplicate its prior feat of catching a booster that returned to Earth.

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The age of de-extinction may soon be a reality. Advances in genetic engineering and synthetic biology are making resurrecting animals once lost to this world a tangible prospect. The organizations and companies at the forefront of de-extinction efforts are promising success — and surprisingly soon. Those efforts just got

CNN By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Blue Origin, the rocket company Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos founded, notched one of the most substantial successes in its history on Thursday: sending a rocket to orbit. The debut flight of New Glenn, the company’s first rocket powerful enough to launch satellites to space, took off after 2

By Nell Lewis, CNN (CNN) — Pygmy seahorses, about the size of a fingernail, are some of the smallest vertebrates in the world. First discovered in 1969, little was known about the creatures. But in the early 2000s, British marine biologist Richard Smith decided to focus his PhD research on Denise’s pygmy seahorse, a species

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — As the winds die down and firefighters seize control of the deadly infernos that have scorched more than 60 square miles, Los Angeles faces an unimaginable task before anyone can rebuild: Cleaning up the toxic, smoldering remains. More than 12,000 structures have been destroyed, many of them homes and

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Blue Origin, the rocket company Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos founded, notched one of the most substantial successes in its history on Thursday: sending a rocket to orbit. The debut flight of New Glenn, the company’s first rocket powerful enough to launch satellites to space, took off after 2 a.m.

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX has turned heads and tested boundaries with each test flight of Starship, the most powerful rocket system ever constructed. And the latest mission of the nearly 400-foot-tall (121-meter) vehicle is designed to push the envelope even further in a quest to return astronauts to the moon and someday

By Angela Fritz, CNN (CNN) — The fires that have ravaged Los Angeles over the past week were larger and burned hotter than they would have in a world without planet-warming fossil fuel pollution, a new analysis suggests. Climate change could be blamed for around 25% of the fuel available for the fires, according to

CNN By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blared toward space Wednesday carrying a pair of lunar landers on a journey to our closest celestial neighbor — kicking off what’s expected to be a bustling year of moon missions amid a renewed race to establish a long-term human presence on the

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blared toward space Wednesday carrying a pair of lunar landers on a journey to our closest celestial neighbor — kicking off what’s expected to be a bustling year of moon missions amid a renewed race to establish a long-term human presence on the lunar

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The past few years have marked the advent of a new lunar space race, with a fleet of robotic spacecraft from various countries trying — and mostly failing — to reach the moon and carry out their intended missions. But 2025 may offer a second chance for the companies

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Keep an eye on the sky Monday evening to see the wolf moon, the first full moon of the year. And some sky-gazers will be able to glimpse a cosmic magic trick when the moon appears to pass in front of Mars. The full moon will be at peak

By Issy Ronald, CNN London (CNN) — Environmental activists in the UK painted Charles Darwin’s grave in Westminster Abbey on Monday with the words “1.5 is dead,” referencing the critical climate threshold that the world temporarily passed in 2024. The two Just Stop Oil activists entered London’s Westminster Abbey, where Darwin is buried alongside some

By Jacopo Prisco and Evan John, CNN (CNN) — Japan’s population is the oldest in the world, with a third aged over 65, and one in 10 aged over 80, due to a combination of low fertility rates and high life expectancy. This has a direct effect on its working-age population — the share of

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos in 2000, has called off a second attempt to launch its 30-story New Glenn rocket. The vehicle had been slated to get off the ground early Monday, but the company waved off that plan so engineers could work to address

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — One of the best ways to assemble the puzzle pieces of Earth’s past is hiding deep beneath its white polar sheets: ice cores. These frozen time capsules preserve air bubbles from thousands of years ago, painting a picture of climate and environmental conditions at the time to reveal how

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Nearly a quarter century after Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin, the rocket company is poised for its most defining moment to date: sending a vehicle to orbit for the first time. Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket is set to make its inaugural launch attempt as soon as 1 a.m.

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An international research team has successfully drilled and retrieved a 9,186-foot-long (2,800-meter-long) ice core from Antarctica that dates back 1.2 million years. The sample extended so deep that it reached the bedrock beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet. The core, nearly as long as 25 soccer fields end to end

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — For decades, astronomers have tried to determine how Pluto acquired its unusually large moon Charon, which is about half the size of the dwarf planet. Now, new research suggests that Pluto and Charon briefly came together billions of years ago in a newly discovered “kiss and capture” collision. Scientists

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — It’s official: 2024 was the hottest year on record, breaking the previous record set in 2023 and pushing the world over a critical climate threshold, according to new data from Europe’s climate monitoring agency Copernicus. Last year was 1.6 degrees hotter than the period before humans began burning large

By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have unearthed nearly 200 dinosaur footprints, dating back 166 million years to the Middle Jurassic Period, at Dewars Farm Quarry in Oxfordshire, England. The remarkable find, first spied in 2023 when quarry worker Gary Johnson sensed “unusual bumps” on the ground while extracting limestone for road construction, has

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Two new potential strategies for returning crucial samples from Mars to Earth by the 2030s are now on the table, according to NASA. The proposals present alternatives to the original Mars Sample Return program. Designed by NASA and the European Space Agency, the initial plan was deemed unwieldy after

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — On Tuesday, Donald Trump Jr. landed in Greenland, the Arctic island his father, President-elect Donald Trump, has expressed a strong desire to purchase, despite sharp statements from Greenland that it is not for sale. Trump Jr. framed the trip as “a little bit of fun,” telling CNN, “as an

By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — Tahlequah, the mother orca denoted as J35 who captured hearts worldwide in 2018 by carrying her dead calf for 17 days and over 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers), is once again displaying a similar act of mourning. Her newest calf, a female known as J61 to researchers, was first spotted

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden will declare two new national monuments in California on Tuesday in what will be one of his final, legacy-cementing actions to protect American land and water before he cedes the White House to President-elect Donald Trump. Biden will establish the Chuckwalla National Monument in Southern California

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — A group of potentially toxic “forever chemicals,” mostly coming from prescribed drugs, may be contaminating drinking water for millions of Americans, as wastewater treatment plants fail to remove them — and climate change may be making the situation even worse, according to a new report. Scientists analyzed water samples

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — On a Florida launchpad that has been dormant for almost two decades, a new, roughly 320-foot (98-meter) rocket — developed by Jeff Bezos’ company Blue Origin — is poised for its maiden flight. The uncrewed launch vehicle, called New Glenn, will mark Blue Origin’s first attempt to send a

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Exploring space has opened our eyes to numerous wonders, but these cosmic feats haven’t come without challenges. Each SpaceX Starship launch from South Texas creates a stunning spectacle, previewing maneuvers that could one day be used to carry humans to Mars. But the most powerful rocket ever built also

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — An unknown volcano erupted so explosively in 1831 that it cooled Earth’s climate. Now, nearly 200 years later, scientists have identified the “mystery volcano.” The eruption was one of the most powerful of the 19th century, spewing so much sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere that annual average temperatures in

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The new year kicks off with the peak of the Quadrantids, one of the strongest meteor showers of the year, according to NASA. But keep your eyes peeled because with a peak only lasting about six hours, as opposed to multiple days, the Quadrantids are also one of the

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — With the arrival of a new year comes plenty of opportunities to witness a bevy of celestial events that will brighten the night sky. Each month, keep an eye out for a gleaming full moon, weather permitting, and there may even be chances to glimpse solar and lunar eclipses.

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A toothy toadstool. A vegetarian piranha with a distinctive mark. And a pygmy pipehorse floating in the Indian Ocean shallows. These wild wonders were among the hundreds of previously unknown species of animals, plants and fungi that scientists named and described for the first time in 2024, expanding our

By Amanda Schupak, CNN (CNN) — Late one summer night in 2023, Kei Jokura entered the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, excitedly carrying a blob in a beaker. The biologist had just come from the first floor, where tanks held a colony of gelatinous comb jellies. The blob was bigger than others, and

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The first time Laura Muckenhoupt felt a glimmer of hope after the death of her 22-year-old son Miles was the drive home from the Washington state facility that had turned his body into hundreds of pounds of soil. There was an empty seat in the family pickup truck where

By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — A marine heat wave has killed approximately half of Alaska’s common murre population, marking the largest recorded die-off of a single species in modern history, research has found. The catastrophic loss points to broader changes in marine environments driven by warming ocean temperatures, which are rapidly and severely restructuring

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — This year, scientists were able to pull back the curtain on mysteries surrounding figures across history, both known and unknown, to reveal more about their unique stories. In some cases, analysis of ancient DNA helped fill knowledge gaps and change preconceived notions. A prime example is how aDNA research

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A SpaceX Super Heavy rocket booster as tall as a 20-story building reappeared in the skies over South Texas minutes after blastoff in October, blazing up its engines to slow its fall back toward Earth. In an unprecedented feat, the booster wowed audiences with a precision midair landing in

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Mount Tambora changed the world. In 1815, the Indonesian volcano exploded in the most powerful eruption in recorded history, sending an enormous plume of tiny sun-reflecting particles high into the atmosphere, cooling the planet and ushering in disaster. What followed was called the “year without a summer:” global temperatures

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The Parker Solar Probe zoomed by the sun on Tuesday during a record-breaking flyby, coming within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the solar surface during humanity’s closest approach to a star. The mission operations team, located at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, was

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — Dozens of luxury condos, hotels and other buildings in southeast Florida are sinking at a surprising rate, researchers reported in a recent study. The study, led by scientists at the University of Miami, found 35 buildings from Golden Beach to Miami Beach sank as much as three inches between

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Today, the limestone plateau in the United Kingdom’s Mendip Hills is famed for its natural beauty. But around 4,000 years ago in the Early Bronze Age, a grisly chapter of British prehistory unfolded there. Thousands of human bones excavated in the 1970s and 1980s in a shaft that plunges

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Look up to see the Ursid meteor shower, the final celestial display of the year, on Sunday morning. The diminutive meteor shower is often overshadowed by the Geminid meteor shower that peaks about a week earlier. And the Ursids always take place near the winter solstice, the shortest day

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Charred to a crisp, the hundreds of brittle ancient scrolls would crumble if one were to attempt to unfurl them, and any trace of script would be nearly illegible. The Herculaneum scrolls, as they are known, still remain unopened, but thanks to the powerful tool that is artificial intelligence,

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on a three-word energy policy: “Drill, baby, drill.” But his cabinet picks for energy and environment — and the current fossil fuel economy — suggest it’s not going to be that easy. There is no question that, in stark contrast to the climate-focused Biden administration,

By Rosa Rahimi, CNN (CNN) — Researchers on an expedition in Peru have discovered 27 animal species new to science – among them a “blob-headed fish” and a type of semi-aquatic mouse. The survey was conducted by Conservation International, an environmental non-profit. It was carried out over a 38-day expedition in 2022 by a team

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A small silver amulet discovered by archaeologists in Germany could transform our understanding of how Christianity spread under the Roman Empire, experts have said. The tiny artefact, which measures about 1.4 inches (3.6 centimeters) long, was unearthed in a 3rd-century Roman grave just outside Frankfurt back in 2018. Archaeologists

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Scientists made a major discovery this year linked to Stonehenge — one of humanity’s biggest mysteries — and the revelations keep coming. A team of researchers shared evidence in August suggesting that the Altar Stone, an iconic monolith at the heart of Stonehenge, was transported hundreds of miles to

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Before dinosaurs walked the Earth and tens of millions of years before the first mammals appeared, distant mammal relatives with long, serrated canine teeth were the dominant carnivores on land. Called gorgonopsians, the earliest animals in this lineage have long been missing from the fossil record. But the discovery

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration just announced an aggressive target for the US to cut its planet-warming pollution over the next decade – a goal that will all but assuredly be reversed by President-elect Donald Trump in his first days in office. The ambitious new target aims to cut US climate

By Jackie Wattles and Ross Levitt, CNN (CNN) — NASA has announced that it is delaying the SpaceX Crew-10 launch, a move that will keep astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams — who already had their stay aboard the International Space Station unexpectedly extended — in orbit even longer. Williams and Wilmore launched to space

By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — Traditionally known for stuffing their cheeks with nuts, squirrels can be carnivorous — though recorded instances of the rodents hunting and killing other live vertebrates are rare, with few species known to have done so. Now, scientists have found unprecedented evidence of another type of squirrel exhibiting carnivorous behaviors,

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists working in Arizona have discovered what appear to be the oldest firearms ever found in the continental United States: two cannons abandoned by a Spanish expeditionary force that was attacked by Native Americans. The 42-inch-long (107-centimeter) bronze cannons, also known as wall guns, were found by independent researcher

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — In one of its last major actions on climate, the Biden administration on Wednesday finalized a key waiver allowing California to set its own vehicle pollution controls – effectively allowing the nation’s most populous state to implement its 2035 ban on selling new gasoline cars. The Biden EPA also

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — If all goes to plan, Virginia will be the site of the world’s first grid-scale nuclear fusion power plant, able to harness this futuristic clean power and generate electricity from it by the early 2030s, according to an announcement Tuesday by the startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems. CFS, one of

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have spotted seven new examples of a cosmic phenomenon known as dark comets that could help scientists determine whether the celestial bodies helped deliver vital elements like water to Earth early in the planet’s history. The discovery doubles the known number of these mysterious celestial objects across our

By Isaac Yee, CNN (CNN) — A complete mastodon jaw was unearthed in the backyard of a house in New York, according to the New York State Museum. The jaw, along with a piece of toe bone and a rib fragment, was excavated by teams from the New York State Museum and State University of

By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — Microplastics are everywhere. They have been found on the peak of Mount Everest and in creatures inhabiting the deepest trenches of the sea. They’re in bottled water, human placentas and breast milk. These tiny plastic particles choke wildlife, disrupt ecosystems, and threaten human health – and they are notoriously

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Flying slowly and silently through the night sky, barn owls are majestic nocturnal hunters that successfully prey on rodents scurrying along the ground below. Scientists have long puzzled over a feature that would appear to handicap the bird during its midnight hunts. The plumage on its underbelly and wings

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of ancient butchered human bones found in a deep shaft in southwest England have pointed archaeologists to a grim chapter of British prehistory that occurred during the Early Bronze Age. Analysis of the more than 3,000 bones has suggested that unidentified assailants violently killed at least 37 men,

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A group of 38 scientists working in nine countries has sounded an alarm about the potential creation of mirror bacteria — synthetic organisms in which the molecular structure found in nature is reversed and could put humans, animals and plants at risk of exposure to dangerous pathogens. While the

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — The world’s largest iceberg is on the move again, drifting through the Southern Ocean after months stuck spinning on the same spot, scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have said. Spanning an area of 3,672 square kilometers (1,418-square-miles) when measured in August – slightly bigger than Rhode Island

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — As the winter nights grow longer, those in the Northern Hemisphere will want to keep an eye out this weekend for the last full moon of the year. The silvery orb will shine bright in the sky for a hair more than 16 hours on Saturday evening into Sunday

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — “Even though you want to try to, never grow up,” Peter Pan said in the titular novel by J.M. Barrie, echoing a sentiment long expressed by the human race in an effort to cheat death. The quest to unlock the secrets of longevity has been the topic of scientific

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Flybys of Jupiter’s fiery moon Io, carried out by NASA’s Juno spacecraft, are helping to solve the enduring mystery of why the small moon is the most volcanically active body in our solar system. Similar in size to Earth’s moon, Io has an estimated 400 volcanoes that continuously release

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Scientists say they have recovered the oldest known Homo sapiens DNA from human remains found in Europe, and the information is helping to reveal our species’ shared history with Neanderthals. The ancient genomes sequenced from 13 bone fragments unearthed in a cave beneath a medieval castle in Ranis, Germany,

By Chris Lau and Lisako Neriki Ancheta, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — A Japanese sake maker is going where no sake maker has gone before: space. Asahi Shuzo, the company behind popular Japanese sake brand Dassai, plans to blast sake ingredients to the International Space Station (ISS) to ferment a very special brew. If it works,

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — After a steep monthslong trek, the Perseverance rover has reached the top of Jezero Crater on Mars. The site is a region unlike anything Perseverance has encountered during its 3 ½-year journey on the red planet. Now, the robotic explorer is preparing to observe some of the oldest rocks

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The nearly 3 million rivers that weave across the world are experiencing rapid and surprising changes, with potentially drastic implications for everything from drinking water supplies to flood risks, according to a new study. Scientists mapped the flow of water through every single river on the planet, every day

By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — A male humpback whale has made an extraordinary journey from South America to Africa — traveling more than 13,046 kilometers (8,106 miles) — the longest migration recorded for a single whale, a new study found. The intrepid marine giant’s trek also marks the first documentation of an adult male

By Gina Park, CNN (CNN) — It’s that time of the year again. Sky-gazers may get the chance to glimpse some of the dozens of meteors that will streak across the sky as the annual Geminid meteor shower reaches its peak. The Geminids are expected to be most active between noon and 8 p.m. ET

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A type of bacteria called Deinococcus radiodurans, nicknamed “Conan the Bacterium” for its ability to survive the harshest of extremes, can withstand radiation doses 28,000 times greater than those that would kill a human being — and the secret to its success is rooted in an antioxidant. Now, scientists

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — Every winter, millions of monarch butterflies journey thousands of miles across North America to spend winters in the forests and mountains of central Mexico. But over the years, the beloved butterfly has seen such a troubling decline in its population that US wildlife officials on Tuesday announced a proposal

By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — Anton van Helden, an expert on some of the world’s rarest whales, was sitting on the couch in July recovering from surgery, when a photo flashed on his phone that would change the course of his career. But this was no ordinary whale. “I immediately went, ‘Oh my goodness,

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A mineral trapped within a Martian meteorite that fell to Earth has revealed traces of water on Mars that date back 4.45 billion years, according to new research. The zircon grain may contain the oldest direct evidence of ancient hot water on the red planet, which may have provided

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An enduring mystique surrounds the Voyager 1 and 2 probes. Launched two weeks apart in 1977, the twin probes changed the way we see our solar system, sending back stunningly detailed views of Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. More than 47 years later, both spacecraft are still exploring the

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Fashion is fickle and styles come and go — even for orcas, apparently. In 1987, a group of killer whales off the northwestern coast of North America briefly donned salmon “hats,” carrying dead fish on their heads for weeks. Recently, a male orca known as J27, or “Blackberry,” was

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for NASA administrator — tech billionaire and spaceflight trailblazer Jared Isaacman — is sending shock waves through the space community, eliciting excited responses from industry leaders who view Isaacman as a changemaker as well as concerns about conflicts of interest. Isaacman, who has twice traveled

By Alex Rodway, CNN (CNN) — On one of his first trips to study wolves in Ethiopia in the late 1980s, biologist Claudio Sillero observed a highly unusual behavior: these local predators were deliberately licking the vibrant flowers of the red hot poker plant that grows in the country’s highlands. Relatively few mammals have been

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Ancient ancestors of Native Americans, known as the Clovis people, mostly ate mammoths and other large animals during the most recent ice age, according to a new study. Scientists examined the chemical signatures left by food items in the remains of an 18-month-old child who was buried about 13,000

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Millions of tons of coal ash leftover from burning the planet’s dirtiest fossil fuel are sitting in ponds and landfills, able to leach into waterways and pollute soil. But this toxic waste may also be a treasure trove for the rare earth elements needed to propel the world toward

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Last year was the hottest on record, oceans boiled, glaciers melted at alarming rates, and it left scientists scrambling to understand exactly why. They know the extraordinary heat was fueled by a number of factors, predominantly planet-heating pollution from burning fossil fuels and the natural climate pattern El Niño.

By Jackie Wattles and Kristin Fisher, CNN (CNN) — NASA’s Artemis program, which aims to return astronauts to the moon this decade amid a renewed international push for lunar exploration, is facing more delays. The agency said Thursday that a planned mission to land on the moon in 2026 will now take place no earlier

By Amy Gunia and Hazel Pfeifer, CNN (CNN) — The patient is submerged in an ice bath as an anesthetic for its impending surgery. When sufficient numbness is achieved, University of Queensland student Lachlan Fitzgerald begins the procedure, carefully attaching a tiny circuit board to its back to create a part-living, part-machine biohybrid robot. The

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Tiny artifacts unearthed at a Wyoming site where a mammoth was butchered 13,000 years ago are revealing intriguing details about how the earliest Americans survived the last ice age. Archaeologists found 32 needle fragments made from animal bone buried almost 15 feet (nearly 5 meters) underground at the La

By Rosa Rahimi, CNN London (CNN) — The dynamics between predator and prey are laid bare in a striking image of fish being attacked by sharks in the shallow waters of the Maldives, which has claimed the top prize in this year’s Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition. Photographer Angela Albi, a postdoctoral researcher at the

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — NASA engineers have successfully restored contact with Voyager 1 and the spacecraft is operating normally after its dwindling power supply caused a weekslong blackout. The issue began in October when the aging probe automatically switched from its primary X-band radio transmitter and began relying on a much weaker S-band

By Michelle Cohan, CNN (CNN) — For runners, footwear is one of the most important – and often most expensive – pieces of gear. Experts say the typical lifespan of a traditional running sneaker falls between 500 to 700 kilometers (310 to 435 miles), or about four to six months, depending on usage. With some

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a surprising new view of a long-studied galactic neighbor, the Sombrero galaxy, revealing a perspective that looks quite different from the wide-brimmed Mexican hat for which it was named. Taken with the space observatory’s Mid-Infrared Instrument, or MIRI, the image showcases the

By Jack Bantock and Gisella Deputato, CNN (CNN) — Since the dawn of farming some 10,000 years ago, the health of agriculture has been inextricably linked to the health of the planet. Now the climate crisis is disrupting farming across the globe. Yet as increasingly unpredictable weather patterns and temperature changes threaten crops, one startup

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — An orca pod in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico has devised a cunning strategy to hunt and kill whale sharks — the world’s largest fish that can grow up to 18 meters (60 feet) in length — new research has revealed. While anecdotal evidence had previously

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — More than 1.5 million years ago, two different species of ancient human crossed paths on a lakeshore, perhaps locking eyes with each other. These early forerunners of Homo sapiens wandered in a landscape teeming with wildlife, including giant maribou storks that stood 2 meters (6.5 feet) tall. A stunning

By Tom Page, CNN (CNN) — In a world where the climate is increasingly hot and volatile, farmers are having trouble keeping their crops cool. A startup founded in the desert of Saudi Arabia thinks it might have a solution. Its technology reduces temperatures inside greenhouses by up to 7 degrees Celsius, without losing any

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN New York (CNN) — Walking around the urban oasis that is Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, one wouldn’t expect to find pawpaws – the largest edible fruit native to North America – growing alongside tombstones. Stroll farther into the cemetery and American persimmons dangle above graves. While it may seem like an unlikely

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The earliest dinosaurs were unremarkable, bit players on a supercontinent crowded with other ancient reptiles when they first evolved around 230 million years ago. Fast-forward 30 million years, however, and dinosaurs dominated the planet, coming in all shapes, sizes and forms, while many of their reptilian counterparts had died

CNN By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The earliest dinosaurs were unremarkable, bit players on a supercontinent crowded with other ancient reptiles when they first evolved around 230 million years ago. Fast-forward 30 million years, however, and dinosaurs dominated the planet, coming in all shapes, sizes and forms, while many of their reptilian counterparts had