Inside Notre Dame, Paris’ Gothic gem, as it reopens to the world
By Joshua Berlinger, CNN Paris (CNN) — Five years after it was nearly destroyed in a devastating fire, Notre Dame de Paris formally reopened on…
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The 47-year-old Voyager probes are exploring interstellar space. Dwindling power could end their journey
By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An enduring mystique surrounds the Voyager 1 and 2 probes. Launched two weeks apart in 1977, the twin probes…
Continue ReadingA recent orca sighting recalls a mystifying 1980s phenomenon. Is it happening again?
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…
Continue Reading‘Further and faster’: Why Trump’s NASA pick is sending shock waves through the space community
By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for NASA administrator — tech billionaire and spaceflight trailblazer Jared…
Continue ReadingWolves may be pollinators as well as predators, study suggests
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…
Continue ReadingAncient Americans chowed down on mammoth steak, study finds
By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Ancient ancestors of Native Americans, known as the Clovis people, mostly ate mammoths and other large animals…
Continue ReadingScientists find huge trove of rare metals needed for clean energy hidden inside toxic coal waste
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…
Continue ReadingThe world has been warming faster than expected. Scientists now think they know why
By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Last year was the hottest on record, oceans boiled, glaciers melted at alarming rates, and it left scientists…
Continue ReadingNASA delays first crewed flight to the moon in over 50 years
By Jackie Wattles and Kristin Fisher, CNN (CNN) — NASA’s Artemis program, which aims to return astronauts to the moon this decade amid a…
Continue ReadingGiant cyborg cockroaches could be the search and rescue workers of the future
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…
Continue ReadingArchaeologists discover key tool that helped early Americans survive the ice age
By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Tiny artifacts unearthed at a Wyoming site where a mammoth was butchered 13,000 years ago are revealing intriguing…
Continue ReadingStriking drone image of young sharks hunting fish wins photo competition
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…
Continue ReadingVoyager 1 is back online 15 billion miles away in interstellar space. But the end could be near
By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — NASA engineers have successfully restored contact with Voyager 1 and the spacecraft is operating normally…
Continue ReadingCreating new kicks from old soles: How a Dutch recycling company is tackling footwear waste
By Michelle Cohan, CNN (CNN) — For runners, footwear is one of the most important – and often most expensive – pieces of gear. Experts say…
Continue ReadingA galaxy named for its resemblance to a sombrero looks distinctly different in new image
By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a surprising new view of a long-studied galactic neighbor, the…
Continue ReadingThis startup is using AI to ‘supercharge’ crop breeding. It could help protect farmers from the climate crisis
By Jack Bantock and Gisella Deputato, CNN (CNN) — Since the dawn of farming some 10,000 years ago, the health of agriculture has been…
Continue ReadingImages reveal how an orca pod hunts the world’s largest fish
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…
Continue ReadingDiscovery of fossilized footprints reveals the moment two ancient human species crossed paths
By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — More than 1.5 million years ago, two different species of ancient human crossed paths on a lakeshore, perhaps…
Continue ReadingThis greenhouse keeps crops cool. It could prove valuable as our planet bakes
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…
Continue ReadingPawpaws, beach plums and more: These native fruits could be on the menu as weather gets more extreme
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…
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