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By Zoe Sottile, CNN Would you like some meaty, savory mealworm powder seasoning with your food? It’s a question you might soon be hearing at the dinner table, or at least that’s the hope of scientists at South Korea’s Wonkwang University. Researchers In Hee Cho and Hyeyoung Park presented their development of a meaty mealworm

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Artemis I will carry an unconventional crew when it’s expected to lift off Wednesday on a journey around the moon. Rather than astronauts, a mannequin named Commander Moonikin Campos will helm the Orion spacecraft, with two mannequin torsos called Helga and Zohar along for the ride. The Artemis program aims to

By Hafsa Khalil, CNN Many people in the northern hemisphere have spent the summer reaching for a boozy drink at the end of the day to take the edge off the scorching, dry heat. It turns out that a tipple may be just what plants need too. A peer-reviewed study published Thursday in the journal

By Ashley Strickland, CNN When NASA’s Artemis I launches next week on a journey to the moon, no animals or people will be onboard, but it will still carry biology investigations to see how living things react to the deep space environment. The Orion spacecraft will carry items like yeast, algae, fungi and seeds rather

By Kristin Fisher, CNN For the first time in 50 years, NASA is on the precipice of launching a rocket that is designed to fly astronauts all the way to the moon. But instead of leaving just flags and footprints in a mad dash to beat the Soviet Union, NASA has a new rival and

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN The climate crisis is devastating the world’s glaciers. As they melt, ecosystems are destroyed and local industries are ravaged — and perhaps most critically, a major source of fresh water vanishes. For the first time, researchers have used historical imagery to reconstruct a visual timeline of Switzerland’s glaciers, which they found

By Heather Chen, CNN US President Joe Biden and Western leaders on Sunday stressed the need for the United Nations nuclear watchdog to visit the Zaporizhzhia power plant in southeastern Ukraine, where shelling has sparked fears of a disaster, according to a White House statement. The statement issued Sunday said Biden held a conference call

By Ralph Ellis, CNN British boxing champion Tyson Fury said his cousin was stabbed to death Sunday as he called on the UK government to take steps to curb knife crimes. “My cousin was murdered last night, stabbed in the neck, this is becoming ridiculous idiots carry knives,” Fury said on social media. “This needs

By Zoe Sottile, CNN The Paradise Wildlife Park’s newest resident isn’t just adorable — it’s also a crucial addition to its species’ endangered population. The Hertfordshire zoo in the United Kingdom welcomed a newborn red panda in July, according to a news release. The tiny cub is currently called “Red Panda” while the zoo waits

By Marlon Sorto, CNN A court in Mexico on Friday ordered the arrest warrants of 83 people allegedly involved in the 2014 disappearance of 43 students, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement. The orders were issued against “20 military commanders and troop personnel from battalions 27 and 41 in the city of Iguala, as

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Where would we be without dreams? It’s a question raised in the new Netflix fantasy drama “The Sandman,” based on a thought-provoking comic book series by Neil Gaiman that envisions human traits and experiences as anthropomorphic forms who exist within an unconventional family. But the discussion of dreams is also something

By Jennifer Henderson, Chris Boyette, Delia Gallagher and Paula Newton, CNN A class-action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of more than 100 victims of sexual assault dating back to the 1940s at the hands of members of Quebec’s Roman Catholic Archiepiscopal Corporation and the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Quebec. In that lawsuit, a woman

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at Buddhism, the major religion of many countries in Asia. Beliefs/Practices Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) grew up in a wealthy family. He decided to follow a path of self-denial, but did not find truth until he sat down under a tree, now known as the Bo tree. There he was

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN New Zealand police have launched a homicide investigation after the remains of two children were found in suitcases bought by a family at an online auction, police said Thursday. In a statement, police said they were alerted to the case last week when the family from the South Auckland suburb of

By Katie Hunt, CNN The ancient monkey puzzle tree has distinctive spiny leaves and intricate scaly branches. Its unusual features, scientists believe, evolved as a defense against towering, long-necked dinosaurs. Reaching up to 160 feet (48.8 meters) tall and able to live for a millennium, the evergreen tree is a survivor from the Jurassic era,

By Katie Hunt, CNN Almost 100 years after its extinction, the Tasmanian tiger may live once again. Scientists want to resurrect the striped carnivorous marsupial, officially known as a thylacine, which used to roam the Australian bush. The ambitious project will harness advances in genetics, ancient DNA retrieval and artificial reproduction to bring back the

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Artemis I mega moon rocket has begun to roll out to the launchpad — and this time, it’s for liftoff on a journey around the moon. Engineers and technicians have been busy with checkouts and final testing of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft inside the Vehicle Assembly

By Ashley Strickland, CNN While no human crew will travel aboard NASA’s Artemis I mission, that doesn’t mean the Orion spacecraft will be empty. When the Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule, scheduled for liftoff on November 16, set off on a trip beyond the moon, the spacecraft will be carrying some special items

By Salma Abdelaziz and Niamh Kennedy, CNN When Fawzia Amini worked as a senior judge in Afghanistan’s Supreme Court, she presided over cases of violent crimes against women, hearing harrowing and heart-breaking accounts of child marriage, sexual assault and femicide. Last August, as the Taliban stormed Kabul and took control of Afghanistan, they shuttered the

By Ashley Strickland, CNN When things feel overwhelming, an escape into nature is just the ticket. That’s what happened for the film crew and scientists who worked on the CNN docuseries “Patagonia: Life on the Edge of the World” after the pandemic began. “I think it kept us dreaming that we could go and actually

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A new deep-sea crustacean that bears a striking resemblance to the facehuggers from “Alien” has been identified in the Gulf of Mexico. The bathynomus yucatanensis is a species of giant isopod, crustaceans that scavenge for food at the bottom of the ocean. Their segmented, fourteen-legged bodies resemble their much smaller relative,

By Kara Fox and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Messages of outrage and support are pouring in from all corners of the globe after writer Salman Rushdie was stabbed at an upstate New York venue where he was due to speak Friday. The Indian-born British author, who has received death threats for his 1988 book, “The Satanic

By Ashley Strickland, CNN A lone male puma stalked through the tall grass of Chile’s Torres del Paine National Park, and it appeared to be heading straight for a film crew. The crew, led by Chilean producer and director René Araneda, had secured a special permit to film pumas off of the park’s main trail.

By Ashley Strickland, CNN An analysis of a 2,300-year-old text and coins has helped researchers decipher ancient recipes for bronze, including two linguistically elusive ingredients. The Kao Gong Ji, the oldest known technical encyclopedia, was written around 300 BC and is part of a larger text called The Rites of Zhou. The ancient text includes

By René Marsh, CNN Some of the world’s richest men are funding a massive treasure hunt, complete with helicopters and transmitters, on the west coast of Greenland. The climate crisis is melting Greenland down at an unprecedented rate, which — in a twist of irony — is creating an opportunity for investors and mining companies

By Katie Hunt, CNN Since ancient times, the idea of eternal life has captivated the human imagination. Around the world, there are so-called blue zones where people live exceptionally long and healthy lives. Scientists study these “lands of immortals” to uncover the secrets of longevity. We may not yet have discovered the healing waters of

By Katie Hunt, CNN The monito del monte, an endearing mouselike creature that lives in the forests of Patagonia, races vertically up trees, covering a meter of bark per second, to feast on insects and summer fruits ripening high in the canopy. But it’s the monito’s ability to slow down its bodily functions to survive

By Angela Dewan, CNN Blistering heat has returned to western Europe, as some countries like France enter into their third wave of the summer with temperatures expected to reach over 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37 degrees Celsius), while more than 80% of the US population will experience temperatures over 90 degrees (32C) within the next week,

By Ashley Strickland, CNN One of the most powerful volcanic eruptions on the planet blasted such a massive amount of water vapor high into the atmosphere that it’s likely to temporarily warm the Earth’s surface, according to detections from a NASA satellite. When the undersea Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted on January 15, 40 miles

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The James Webb Space Telescope has peered through cosmic dust to reveal new details and a stunning image of a rare type of galaxy. The space observatory’s latest image shows the Cartwheel galaxy, a ring galaxy located 500 million light-years away that formed when a large spiral galaxy and a small

By Zoe Sottile, CNN The Greenland shark makes its home in the icy arctic waters around Greenland and Iceland. So researchers were shocked when they found one of the ocean giants apparently taking a tropical vacation in the coral reefs off the coast of Belize. This is the first time a Greenland shark has been

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Wild tigers in Nepal have clawed their way back from the brink of extinction. There are now almost three times as many wild tigers in the country as there were in 2009, according to the Nepalese government. Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba announced the conservation success Friday morning, according to a

By Mariya Knight, CNN Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday called on the remaining residents of the Donetsk region to urgently evacuate in what he called a “government decision.” “Everything is being organized. Full support, full assistance — both logistical and payments. We only need a decision from the people themselves, who have not yet

By Tim Lister, Gul Tuysuz and Kostan Nechyporenko, CNN Videos alleged to show Russian soldiers castrating and killing a bound and gagged Ukrainian soldier are circulating on social media, drawing an accusation of potential war crimes from the United Nations and prompting a Ukrainian investigation into possible torture. The three videos appear to show a

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of one of the most successful investment financiers in the world, George Soros. An active philanthropist, Soros has donated more than $30 billion to various causes over the years. Personal: Birth date: August 12, 1930 Birth place: Budapest, Hungary Birth name: György Soros Father: Tivadar Soros,

By Ashley Strickland, CNN There’s just something about penguins — and for the scientists and conservationists who work with Patagonia’s flightless marine birds, it’s usually love at first sight. Marine biologist Andrea Raya Rey decided on her career at age 10. As an animal lover who wanted to study the unique behaviors of creatures, she

By Rachel Fadem, CNN The “murder hornet” is no more. At least, its name is gone. The Entomological Society of America and the Entomological Society of Canada have adopted a new name for the murder hornet, also known as the Asian giant hornet, saying “the usage of ‘Asian’ in the name of a pest insect