Shark attacks declined sharply in 2024. It’s not clear why
By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Unprovoked attacks by sharks declined sharply in 2024, with 47 incidents logged worldwide, down 22 from the previous…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Unprovoked attacks by sharks declined sharply in 2024, with 47 incidents logged worldwide, down 22 from the previous…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Look up this week for February’s full snow moon and to catch the last glimpse of a visible parade of…
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman and Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Scientists, faculty and staff at Emory University received an alarming email Saturday: An…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — On the heels of the revelation that Boeing is planning to lay off as many as 400 workers from its Space Launch…
Continue ReadingBy Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Scientists who just months ago confirmed that Earth’s inner core recently reversed its spin have a new…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Swaths of the US may be grappling with frigid weather, but for the planet as a whole, heat records are being…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The challenge of unearthing lost things and solving inscrutable puzzles is a driving force in the world of…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — In a Friday afternoon email to NASA staff, the agency’s acting chief asked employees to embrace the philosophy…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A recently discovered asteroid that has captured the attention of the astronomy community now has a slightly…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The existence of the US Agency for International Development hangs in the balance. President Donald Trump is…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Seven years after SpaceX launched Elon Musk’s cherry red sports car into orbit around our sun, astronomers…
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen and Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — A representative from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, was granted…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have made a leap forward in understanding the pattern and structure of turbulence — a natural…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Scholars are decoding an ancient scroll that was one of hundreds charred to a crisp during the eruption of Mount…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide with Earth in the future, the space rock could cause…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size…
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Some great apes realize when a human partner doesn’t know something and are capable of communicating information to…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — About 3.8 billion years ago, two massive canyons likely formed on the moon in a span of less than 10 minutes,…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Images from space reveal an enormous X-shaped building rising up from rocky terrain in southwestern China. This…
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Often referred to as the world’s most famous medieval artwork, the Bayeux Tapestry is both an intricate…
Continue ReadingBy Hassan Tayir, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China plans to send a flying robot to the far side of the moon next year to search for the frozen water…
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The US Army Corps of Engineers opened two dams on Friday in Central California and let roughly 2.2 billion gallons…
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN London (CNN) — Eleven endangered male frogs that traveled 7,000 miles (11,000 kilometers) in a bid to save their species…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — The arrival of a baby swell shark at an aquarium in Louisiana has caused a wave of excitement, after the egg…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Sending a spacecraft to a near-Earth asteroid, gathering dust and rock from its surface, and returning the rare…
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — The Blue Ghost lunar lander has captured its first images of the moon from the spacecraft’s orbit around…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison and Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — There’s a saying that in a big city you are never more than six feet away from a rat. It’s…
Continue ReadingBy Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — Corals aren’t necessarily known for their fancy footwork — or even having feet. But scientists have observed…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Space agencies are keeping a close eye on a recently discovered asteroid that has a small chance of impacting…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have been on an unexpectedly monthslong assignment after…
Continue ReadingBy Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — Seventy-eight years ago, scientists created a unique sort of timepiece — named the Doomsday Clock — as a…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists investigating a roughly 5,000-year-old tomb in southwestern Spain say the women laid to rest there…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Researchers have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in unprecedented samples…
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — An amateur fossil hunter has uncovered a piece of animal vomit dating back 66 million years on a beach in Denmark.…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — In a post on the social media platform X, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk claimed Tuesday that the Biden Administration…
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — New insights into bee movements and life cycles have been uncovered after researchers tracked the insects using tiny…
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Momentarily pausing after eating some mealworms, an elusive shrew’s long snout pointed skywards, unaware of the…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A small space rock that lingered near Earth last year and was referred to as its temporary “mini-moon”…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of wildfires tear through southern Italy every year, fueled by scorching temperatures and the hot,…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The story of how humans evolved is a long and winding one — and it grows more complicated with each passing…
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — Just hours after his swearing-in this week, as a raft of executive orders was presented and signed at the…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of mysterious mounds on Mars preserve layers of evidence pointing to ancient water on the red…
Continue ReadingCNN By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Even before the Los Angeles fires, the Federal Emergency Management Agency was under assault on all fronts.…
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Even before the Los Angeles fires, the Federal Emergency Management Agency was under assault on all fronts.…
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — As more than 60 square miles Los Angeles violently burned earlier this month, then-President Elect Donald Trump…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A cache of human-like fossils from China has perplexed scientists for decades, defying explanation or…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Mysterious fast radio bursts, or millisecond-long bright flashes of radio waves from space, have intrigued…
Continue ReadingBy Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of unusual discs unearthed in Denmark are revealing clues into how a Stone Age population responded…
Continue ReadingBy Rosa Rahimi, CNN (CNN) — The world’s largest iceberg is still on the move and there are fears that it could be headed north from…
Continue ReadingBy Amarachi Orie, CNN London (CNN) — The size of human beings has increased over the past century thanks to better health and nutrition — but…
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