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By Jonny Hallam, Mohammed Tawfeeq and Caitlin Hu, CNN The day began with an escalation of force from Russian President Vladimir Putin, and ended with a call for his country’s diplomatic isolation by his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky. Zelensky on Wednesday addressed the United Nations, urging world leaders to unite against Russia’s war in Ukraine

By Christian Edwards and Kara Fox, CNN US President Joe Biden said he believes the Covid-19 pandemic is “over,” even as the country continues to see around 400 deaths a day. In a Sunday interview on CBS’ “60 minutes,” the President acknowledged the US still has a “problem” with the virus — which has killed

By Angus Watson and Heather Chen, CNN More than 200 whales have been found stranded in Australia on the western shore of Tasmania, wildlife officials said. The animals, which appear to be pilot whales, are currently stranded on a beach and a sand bank, the Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service said in a statement issued

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The NASA InSight Lander has “heard” and detected the vibrations of four space rocks as they slammed into Mars over the past two years. It’s the first time a mission has picked up both seismic and acoustic waves from an impact on Mars, and InSight’s first detection of impacts since landing

Richard Roth, CNN It took a Queen to shake up this year’s high-level week at the United Nations General Assembly — an annual whirlwind shindig known as UNGA that will begin on Tuesday. The UN gang is finally getting back together in person, after three years of leaders speaking by video due to the global

By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Beaming at the camera, a joyous Queen Elizabeth II smiles in a photograph newly released by Buckingham Palace on the eve of her state funeral. The photograph was taken back in May at Windsor Castle ahead of Platinum Jubilee celebrations marking the Queen’s 70 years on the throne. Ahead of the

By Zoe Sottile and Tara Subramaniam, CNN After going extinct in India over 70 years ago, cheetahs are finally making a comeback in the country with a new reintroduction program. Eight cheetahs from Namibia arrived in India on Saturday, according to a tweet from the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF). The big cats were released into

By Ashley Strickland, CNN If you love space and exploring the cosmos, there is no shortage of wonder right now. Scientists identified mysterious diamonds that likely originated from a dwarf planet that once existed in our solar system — until it collided with a large asteroid 4.5 billion years ago. The rare space diamonds aren’t

By Ashley Strickland, CNN A NASA spacecraft that will deliberately crash into an asteroid is getting closer to its target. The DART mission, or the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, will have a rendezvous with the space rock on September 26 after launching 10 months ago. The spacecraft will slam into an asteroid’s moon to see

By Megan Marples, CNN Nobody wants to think about how their loved ones will cope when they die, but it’s important to plan effectively to ensure a smooth transition of your wealth and worldly possessions — even if you’re young or feel like you don’t have much to leave behind. An estate plan is a

By Hafsa Khalil, CNN Does constipation wreak havoc on the mating habits of scorpions? What is the best way to turn a doorknob? And does the world need a moose crash test dummy? If these burning questions have ever troubled you, then this year’s batch of the (in)famous satirical science awards, the Ig Nobel Prizes,

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Scientists have debated its existence. Tiny traces provided clues. Now, researchers have confirmed the existence of a celestial diamond after finding it on Earth’s surface. The stone, called lonsdaleite, has a hardness and strength that exceeds that of a regular diamond. The rare mineral arrived here by way of a meteorite,