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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Scientists in Europe have identified a previously unknown species of fungus that turns cave spiders into “zombies.” The fungus lures them out of their webs before instigating an untimely death and then uses the spiders’ corpses to spread its spores. The newly discovered species, named Gibellula attenboroughii, acts in

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore — the two astronauts who launched on Boeing Starliner’s first crewed test flight and have been in low-Earth orbit since June — want to set the record straight: They aren’t stranded on the International Space Station, and they weren’t abandoned. The duo made

CNN By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore — the two astronauts who launched on Boeing Starliner’s first crewed test flight and have been in low-Earth orbit since June — want to set the record straight: They aren’t stranded on the International Space Station, and they weren’t abandoned. The duo

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Blue Origin has announced plans to lay off about 10% of its workforce — or more than 1,000 employees — nearly a month after the company debuted its first orbital rocket, New Glenn. In an email to staff sent Thursday, which CNN obtained, Blue Origin CEO David Limp said

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have spied a monster radio jet in the distant universe that’s twice the width of the Milky Way galaxy. The ancient object formed when the universe was less than 10% of its current age of 13.8 billion years, according to a new study. “This is the largest radio

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — The remains of an ancient basilica that would have formed the heart of Roman London have been uncovered during building work in the center of the British capital. About 2,000 years old, the basilica would have housed the tribunal, where magistrates, officials and politicians would have deliberated important decisions

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three towers, each taller than the Statue of Liberty. When this plant opened near the California-Nevada border in

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers using a giant network of sensors, still under construction at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, have found the highest-energy cosmic “ghost particle” ever detected. The neutrino, as the particle is formally known, is 30 times more energetic than any of the few hundreds of previously detected neutrinos.

By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — Sea turtles are renowned for their incredible migrations, traveling thousands of miles across vast oceans with few visible landmarks. Now, a new study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, reveals loggerhead turtles, the most abundant sea turtle species nesting in the United States, learn the magnetic fields of specific

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Ancient humans living in Europe may have scooped out the brains of their dead enemies and eaten them, a new study suggests. In the study, published last week in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers examined the bones of at least 10 people from the Magdalenian culture who lived in

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — In what’s been called a world first, consumers in the UK are now able to buy a pet treat made with lab-grown meat. The treat contains plant-based ingredients and 4% chicken meat cultivated in a lab by Meatly, a London-based startup that last year became the first company in

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA on Tuesday said it may bring home Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams — the two astronauts who launched on Boeing Starliner’s first crewed test flight and have remained on the space station months longer than expected — a couple weeks sooner than previously announced. The space agency said

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers with the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission have captured an unprecedented look at a rare cosmic phenomenon — and they made the observations purely by happenstance. Their discovery is tied to some of the earliest data from the Euclid telescope, which launched in July 2023 to study the

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Unprovoked attacks by sharks declined sharply in 2024, with 47 incidents logged worldwide, down 22 from the previous year and significantly below a 10-year average of 70, according to new figures released Tuesday. The United States experienced the highest number of unprovoked attacks by sharks, with 28 reported incidents,

By 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 planets in the night sky before they fade from view. This phase of the moon will peak at 8:53 a.m. ET Wednesday, but the glowing orb will appear full

By Brenda Goodman and Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Scientists, faculty and staff at Emory University received an alarming email Saturday: An announcement of funding caps from the National Institutes of Health meant scientists and their labs at research institutions across the US would need to tighten their belts. For the Atlanta-based school, a preeminent

By 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 obliterated — and it spells very bad news. Two new studies conclude it’s a signal the planet is likely on track to breach the Paris climate agreement goal

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The challenge of unearthing lost things and solving inscrutable puzzles is a driving force in the world of science. Such breakthroughs rarely happen in the derring-do fashion of the “Indiana Jones” films that inspired me to search for lost cities in my childhood backyard. Rather, some of the groundbreaking