
Ancient DNA pulls back curtain on the Sahara Desert’s greener past
By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Picture the Sahara, and an inhospitable landscape of endless sand dunes and barren rock comes to mind. That’s…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Picture the Sahara, and an inhospitable landscape of endless sand dunes and barren rock comes to mind. That’s…
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — A newly uncovered ancient Egyptian tomb is shedding light on royalty that once ruled the region over 3,600 years…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX is wrapping up the latest chapter in its commercial human spaceflight endeavors with the return of Fram2.…
Continue ReadingBy Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — The renovation of a football pitch in Austria’s capital has led to the discovery of a Roman mass grave housing…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Today, the view from the Takarkori rock shelter in southwestern Libya is of endless sandy dunes and barren rock, but…
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Tyrannosaurus rex ancestors and their plant-eating dinosaur prey would have congregated to drink water from a lagoon…
Continue ReadingBy Barbie Latza Nadeau and Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Two very rare, almost-life-sized statues have been discovered during the excavation of a…
Continue ReadingBy Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — Japanese cuisine wouldn’t be the same without miso — but astronauts wanting use the fermented soybean…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — New hints from one of the most extensive surveys of the cosmos to date suggest that mysterious dark energy…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Stone tools unearthed in southwest China helped a mysterious group eke out a living in a cold and harsh environment…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX on Monday launched its latest mission for paying customers: This time, a Crew Dragon spacecraft is…
Continue ReadingCNN By Ashley Strickland and Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Two astronauts whose planned weeklong stay in low-Earth orbit unexpectedly turned into…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland and Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Two astronauts whose planned weeklong stay in low-Earth orbit unexpectedly turned into a…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A crew of four passengers — led by a cryptocurrency billionaire — is set to launch aboard a SpaceX capsule…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Like nostalgia-evoking songs, objects can help us feel like we’ve preserved a moment in time. After our…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Guyana’s destiny changed in 2015. US fossil fuel giant Exxon discovered nearly 11 billion barrels of oil in…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The NASA Curiosity rover has detected the largest organic molecules found to date on Mars, opening a window…
Continue ReadingBy Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — Paleontologists have discovered a newly identified fish species in Australia so well-preserved that they could…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A partial solar eclipse on Saturday will make it look as though the moon has taken a bite out of the sun over…
Continue ReadingBy Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — “It’s alive! IT’S ALIVE!” In the 1931 movie “Frankenstein,” Dr. Henry Frankenstein howling his…
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