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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a Neanderthal whose life came to a brutal end 75,000 years ago when a sharpened wooden spear plunged into the individual’s chest in one of the earliest known examples of a possible homicide. A neat, circular hole in the hominin’s shoulder blade suggested

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The planet’s widest glacier is melting “more aggressively” than previously projected, meaning its impacts on global sea level rise could be double current estimates, according to new research by a team of glaciologists. Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica — nicknamed the Doomsday Glacier because of the catastrophe its collapse

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists working off the coast of Turkey have found a shipwreck dating back around 4,700 years, making it the oldest in the world. A number of ancient storage vessels known as amphorae were recovered during excavations at the wreck, which was found at a depth of around 100 feet

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — As the near-certainty of a record-breaking super El Niño has become clear, the scientists who predict and study it have been inundated by inquiries from the press and public. While there seems to be widespread recognition of what the term “El Niño” means, many people are confused about how

By Katie Hunt, CNN (London) — When the sun hits its highest point over the meridian line that travels north and south from the 351-year-old Royal Observatory Greenwich in London, it’s noon Greenwich Mean Time, a tangible and physical reference point that helped establish the world’s time zone system. Timekeeping has long relied on Earth’s

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A leopard-spotted rock that could prove whether life ever existed beyond Earth is sitting in a tube on Mars. NASA’s Perseverance rover grabbed up the sample, called Sapphire Canyon, from rocky outcrops on the edges of the Neretva Vallis, a valley sculpted by rivers that once flowed into an

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — The winner of a prestigious scientific photography competition has been disqualified after organizers concluded that his use of generative AI broke the rules. Ning Xu was named the winner of the annual Nikon Small World in Motion competition in September, but his video received a number of critical comments

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The Iran war was supposed to be a short, sharp strike that brought down the regime within a few weeks. Instead, the US finds itself enmeshed in a conflict that’s upending the world’s energy system. As oil and gas prices soar, there have been noticeable shifts toward clean energy,

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — AI executives are betting big on biology. They say their large language models that have already dramatically changed the fields of coding and software development and mathematics can upend biological research in the same way. But one company’s attempt to do so has already set off a wave of

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The Draconid meteor shower will briefly light up the sky Thursday night — and it won’t even keep onlookers out past midnight. The shower is expected to peak at 9 p.m. ET Thursday, but depending on viewers’ location, meteors will be visible into the wee hours of Friday morning,

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Margaret Hamilton, the groundbreaking researcher who helped create the field of software engineering and whose code helped land NASA’s Apollo astronauts on the moon to win the 20th century space race, has died. She was 90. Hamilton’s former employer, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, confirmed her death in a

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — An uninhabited volcanic island in the Southern Ocean used to be home to the largest penguin colony in the world — but not anymore. Scientists have discovered the staggering loss of more than half a million chinstrap penguins from the isolated outcrop. Chinstrap penguins, named for the narrow band

By Issy Ronald, Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in chemistry for designing revolutionary experiments that replicated chemical asymmetry, a feat only previously seen in nature. Their work has solved one of the field’s enduring mysteries and advanced pharmaceutical manufacturing, the award committee said

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — The croc family tree may be getting a new branch. Analyzing fossilized remains discovered in the same bedrock that built the Great Sphinx, paleontologists newly identified a crocodilian species that once roamed a shallow sea in what’s now Egypt about 45 million years ago. The Mokattam Formation in northern

By Issy Ronald, Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The 2026 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to Francis Halzen, a pioneering Belgian astrophysicist whose work developing a massive observatory in Antarctica to detect “ghostly” cosmic particles laid the foundations for an “entirely new type of astronomy.” These tiny, high-energy particles from space, known as

By Laura Paddison, CNN and Masoud Popalzai (CNN) — Shazia knows what life will be like in a major city that’s run out of water because she’s already living that reality — and it’s unbearable. The 34-year-old lives in the Khair Khana neighborhood of Afghanistan’s capital Kabul with her three children and her husband, who