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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists have uncovered a tiny 3,500-year-old tablet inscribed with cuneiform writing during excavations at a site in Turkey that could shed light on what life was like during the Late Bronze Age. Cuneiform, one of the oldest forms of writing, was used across the ancient Middle East.Cuneiform recorded Sumerian,

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — For more than 100 years, the otherworldly wreck of a British warship sat lost on the seabed, covered in barnacles and seaweed, after it was torpedoed by a German U-boat during World War I. Now, specialist divers working with Lost In Waters Deep say they believe they have found

By Kate Golembiewski, CNN (CNN) — Sixty-six million years ago, the story of life on Earth took a dramatic turn when an asteroid collided with what’s now the Yucatán Peninsula in Chicxulub, Mexico. The aftereffects of the collision resulted in the extinction of an estimated 75% of animal species, including most dinosaurs except for birds.

By Ella Nilsen and Rachel Wilson, CNN (CNN) — Two years after President Joe Biden’s landmark climate law was signed, millions of Americans have used it to save millions of dollars on solar panels, appliances and home insulation. Inflation Reduction Act tax credits for residential energy upgrades are going gangbusters, recent Treasury Department data shows, with

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Greece’s worst wildfire of the year has ripped through the Attica region toward the capital Athens at lightning speed, tracking a devastating course that killed a woman, torched thousands of hectares of land and forced people to flee their homes. The fire, which started Sunday near the town of

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — German astronomer Johannes Kepler made sketches of sunspots in 1607 from his observations of the sun’s surface — and centuries later, the pioneering drawings are helping scientists solve a solar mystery. Even though everything in the solar system revolves around the sun, scientists have yet to unlock many of

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — For months, a gargantuan iceberg has been slowly spinning in one spot in the Southern Ocean — and it could continue to stay trapped in this vortex for quite some time, experts say. As the world’s largest iceberg, the colossus A23a is of great interest to scientists, who have closely

By Jackie Wattles, Kristin Fisher and Ross Levitt, CNN (CNN) — Two NASA astronauts who have had their mission to the International Space Station repeatedly extended due to problems with the Boeing Starliner spacecraft will need to wait at least another week before they learn how and when they are returning to Earth. At a

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Stonehenge’s Altar Stone, which lies at the heart of the ancient monument in southern England, was likely transported over 435 miles (700 kilometers) from what’s now northeastern Scotland nearly 5,000 years ago, according to new research. The findings of a new study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, overturn

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — For six months in 1181, a dying star left a mark in the night sky. The striking object appeared as bright as Saturn in the vicinity of the constellation Cassiopeia, and historical chronicles from China and Japan recorded it as a “guest star.” Chinese astronomers used this term to

By Amy O’Kruk and Angela Dewan, CNN (CNN) — No, it’s not your imagination — summers in the US really are getting hotter. And longer. Human-caused climate change is turbocharging heat all over the country, but it’s most intense in cities, where more than 260 million Americans live. That’s because buildings, roads and sidewalks radiate

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Data from a retired NASA mission has revealed evidence of an underground reservoir of water deep beneath the surface of Mars, according to new research. A team of scientists estimates that there may be enough water, trapped in tiny cracks and pores of rock in the middle of the

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Spiders have a reputation for giving some humans a fright, but a team of scientists has flipped the script to learn why one increasingly visible species seems to have an edge on handling stress. Jorō spiders — which have been spreading across the southeastern United States since their first appearance in

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — The skeletal remains of a man and a woman have been unearthed in Pompeii, along with a cache of coins and precious jewelry, archaeologists say. The discovery is part of a dig in Region IX of the buried city that has uncovered a plethora of ancient buildings

CNN By Amy Gunia and Alkira Reinfrank, CNN (CNN) — Some 400 kilometers (250 miles) from the nearest sea, engineering students at Switzerland’s ETH Zurich are hard at work on cutting-edge robots that may change the way the world’s oceans are studied. “Eve” the robotic fish swings its silicone tail side to side, powered by

By Amy Gunia and Alkira Reinfrank, CNN (CNN) — Some 400 kilometers (250 miles) from the nearest sea, engineering students at Switzerland’s ETH Zurich are hard at work on cutting-edge robots that may change the way the world’s oceans are studied. “Eve” the robotic fish swings its silicone tail side to side, powered by pumps

By Riane Lumer, CNN (CNN) — It’s that time of summer to watch the most anticipated meteor shower of the year: the dazzling display known as the Perseids. Streams of light and color will travel across the sky while explosions of fireballs linger, leaving behind even brighter streaks than the meteor trails from the Perseids

By Lou Robinson and Angela Dewan, CNN (CNN) — The Paris Olympics opened with rain on its parade, then blistering heat and, finally, a week of pleasant sunshine. As it comes to a close on Sunday, temperatures are expected to again soar up to 95 degrees Fahrenheit, or 35 degrees Celsius. The only certainty about

By Alaa Elassar, CNN South Island, New Zealand (CNN) — Justin Parkin-Rae takes a break from pulling chunks of weeds from around one of the many rivers that snake through Kaikōura, a quaint fishing town on the east coast of New Zealand’s South Island, named Te Waipounamu in his native Māori language. His jade necklace and red hair

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The human story became a bit more complicated about two decades ago. In 2003, archaeologists excavating inside Liang Bua, a cave on the Indonesian island of Flores, found a tiny humanlike skull. More bones followed, and at first, archaeologist Thomas Sutikna and his team thought they had uncovered the