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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A papyrus scroll that was burned and carbonized when Mount Vesuvius erupted almost 2,000 years ago has been virtually unrolled and partially deciphered with the help of artificial intelligence. The scroll — named PHerc. 1667 — is one of hundreds from the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum, which was

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A distant star-forming galaxy nicknamed the “Shadow Blaster” could have sent a ghostly cosmic particle hurtling toward Earth. Astronomers believe they have traced the particle‘s origin to 11 billion light-years away, marking a step forward in understanding the mysterious neutrinos. Neutrinos are abundant across the universe, earning a reputation

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The record-shattering June heat that’s baked Europe this week would have been “virtually impossible” just a few decades ago, according to a new analysis, which says the human-driven climate crisis is “unequivocally to blame.” The ongoing heat wave is the region’s “most severe ever recorded,” according to the study

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Europe’s heat endurance continues as multiple countries are braced for triple digit temperatures Thursday. The United Kingdom has already broken its June temperature record for the second straight day, and other countries could see national records fall. Swaths of Europe are baking under a heat dome, a vast area

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Humanlike fossils have emerged from the deep and twisting caverns of the Rising Star cave system in South Africa over the past decade — and what they have revealed has rocked the field of human origins. Now, new findings on the sex of individuals whose remains were discovered there

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — When massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake shook Japan on March 11, 2011, the ground also made a more lasting move. About 15 minutes after the event began at 2:46 p.m. local time, nearly the entire country shifted eastward, according to GPS station measurements. The lurch was small — 5 to

By Laura Paddison, Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — Brutal heat waves are coming more frequently in Europe, leaving millions of people struggling to adapt to punishing, record-breaking temperatures. There is little respite. Air conditioning is very rare in European homes. Many residents ride out the searing heat with the help of electric fans, ice packs

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — When most silk-spinning spiders hunt, they build a web and wait for prey to blunder into it. But a newly discovered species from Australia instead uses its silk to craft a spring-loaded, cone-shaped death trap, which catapults its prey into the spider’s main web. A foraging tree ant bites

CNN, AJAY NARENDRA ET AL, MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY, MGM, Ajay Narendra et al/ Macquarie University By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — When most silk-spinning spiders hunt, they build a web and wait for prey to blunder into it. But a newly discovered species from Australia instead uses its silk to craft a spring-loaded, cone-shaped death trap,

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Relentless, deadly heat is tightening its grip on Europe, with temperature records expected to not just fall but be obliterated this week. Scientists warn this extreme heat is a huge problem for Europe and a wake up call to a new reality. Europe is the planet’s fastest-warming continent, heating

CNN By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Europe is sweltering under its second heat dome in two months, with temperatures spiking above 104 degrees Fahrenheit, bringing dangerous conditions across swaths of the planet’s fastest-warming continent. France banned public alcohol consumption, Spain closed a World Cup fan zone and the UK is bracing for an annihilation

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Europe is sweltering under its second heat dome in two months, with temperatures spiking above 104 degrees Fahrenheit, bringing dangerous conditions across swaths of the planet’s fastest-warming continent. France banned public alcohol consumption, Spain closed a World Cup fan zone and the UK is bracing for an annihilation of

WMC, US DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI, STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, CNN By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — In a highly unusual move, the US Justice Department has urged a federal court to throw out a lawsuit against Elon Musk’s company xAI for its use of polluting gas turbines — sparking concerns the government is

By Laura Paddison, Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is U-turning on its controversial decision to dismantle a critical ocean monitoring system that provides vital information on the health of the world’s oceans, after a bipartisan backlash in Congress. The Ocean Observatories Initiative was established in 2016 and involves around 900 instruments across

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A 5,000-year-old structure discovered in southwest England may have been a prototype for the development of Stonehenge, according to archaeologists. The structure, which consisted of two wooden poles placed 120 meters (394 feet) apart, would have lined up with the rising sun at summer solstice and the setting sun

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A Japanese ship was in a convoy steaming through the South China Sea on September 21, 1944, with around 1,200 British and Dutch prisoners of war crammed in its holds. US warplanes, mistaking the unmarked ship for a military cargo vessel, dropped four torpedoes. One struck the ship. The

By Laura Paddison, CNN Ealing, West London (CNN) — A few hundred feet from a McDonald’s and a strip mall, sandwiched between busy and polluted roads, a lush urban wetland is being built by an unusual and furry group of city residents: beavers. This corner of Ealing, a borough in West London, used to flood