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By Zoe Sottile, CNN The world’s oldest dog is living it up in his 30s. Bobi, a Portuguese pooch who was declared the world’s oldest dog by Guinness World Records in February, celebrated his 31st birthday on Thursday, according to a news release from Guinness. Bobi’s family planned a Saturday birthday party at his home

By Nic Robertson, CNN Scrambling out of a Soviet-era armored troop carrier, the first thing we look for is shelter from attack. There are no artillery shells incoming right now, but the shredded trees around us are a silent warning this rare moment of calm on this frontline in Ukraine may not hold. Honza, a

CNN By Nic Robertson, CNN Scrambling out of a Soviet-era armored troop carrier, the first thing we look for is shelter from attack. There are no artillery shells incoming right now, but the shredded trees around us are a silent warning this rare moment of calm on this frontline in Ukraine may not hold. Honza,

By Katie Hunt, CNN An international team of scientists mapped nearly the entire human genome for the first time two decades ago, cracking the genetic code of human life. The global effort was a massive scientific feat, and the voyage of discovery helped researchers decode the genetic underpinnings of complex diseases such as Alzheimer’s, cancer

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN A frog that looks like it’s made of tempered chocolate. A rainbow-colored fish that dwells in the ocean’s “twilight zone.” A hairy sloth with a coconut-shaped head. These are just a few of the hundreds of newfound species that scientists described in 2022. The animals join a growing list of more

By Kristen Rogers, CNN A large international team of researchers has identified nine groups of newly described butterflies, and one colorful genus broke the mold with its striking wing patterns — earning itself a name inspired by the Eye of Sauron, a blazing symbol of the main antagonist Sauron the Dark Lord in J.R.R. Tolkien’s

By Mostafa Salem, Anna Chernova and Isil Sariyuce, CNN Turkey’s main opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu has accused Russia of interfering in the country’s ongoing presidential election campaign. “Dear Russian friends, you are behind the montages, conspiracies, deep fake content and tapes that were exposed in this country yesterday,” he said in a tweet posted Thursday.

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Astronomers have spotted the largest cosmic explosion ever witnessed, and it’s 10 times brighter than any known exploding star, or supernova. The brightness of the explosion, called AT2021lwx, has lasted for three years, while most supernovas are only bright for a few months. The event, still being detected by telescopes, occurred

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN Very large things often have small beginnings. That certainly was true for brontotheres, the enormous, rhino-like herbivorous mammals that lumbered across North America and Asia during the Eocene Epoch. Brontotheres started out as dog-size animals, but then most species evolved to become nearly as large as elephants, and they did so

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Giant solar balloons were sent 70,000 feet up in the air to record sounds of Earth’s stratosphere — and the microphones picked up some unexpected sounds. The stratosphere is the second layer of Earth’s atmosphere, and its lower level contains the ozone layer that absorbs and scatters the sun’s ultraviolet radiation,

By Jackie Wattles, CNN Vast — a California-based startup and one of the newest entrants in the world of privatized spaceflight — plans to use a SpaceX rocket to launch what it hopes to be the world’s first commercial space station and ferry passengers to and from the orbiting outpost. It’s not clear how much

CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Ashley Strickland, CNN When the Voyager probes lifted off weeks apart in 1977, no one expected that the twin spacecraft would have their missions extended from four years to 45 years and counting. Now, the mission team is getting creative with its strategies for the power supply and instruments on both

By Ashley Strickland, CNN When the Voyager probes lifted off weeks apart in 1977, no one expected that the twin spacecraft would have their missions extended from four years to 45 years and counting. Now, the mission team is getting creative with its strategies for the power supply and instruments on both Voyager 1 and

By Ashley Strickland, CNN When the crewed Artemis II mission makes its lunar flyby in late 2024, we’ll be able to see video of the moon like never before — and it’s all thanks to lasers. The Orion spacecraft will launch atop the Space Launch System rocket in November 2024 to carry NASA astronauts Reid

By Jackie Wattles and Tina Burnside, CNN What could be a meteorite struck a home in Hopewell Township, New Jersey, authorities said Monday. The metallic object crashed through the roof of a house and ricocheted around a bedroom. No one was in the bedroom at the time of the incident, and no injuries were reported.