CNN – Offbeat

By Christian Edwards and Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to US scientists Victor Ambros…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Keep your eyes on the night skies to see the elusive Draconid meteor shower, expected to peak Monday evening…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — “Jurassic Park,” and its genetically modified dinosaur escapees, is pure science fiction — it’s never going…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The best minds in science will be thrust from academic obscurity into the spotlight this week when the Nobel Prizes…

By Kate Golembiewski, CNN (CNN) — You have probably seen leaf-cutter ants carrying bits of plants, maybe in a nature documentary, at a science…

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — For humans, flashing a smile is an easy way to avoid misunderstanding. And, according to a new study, bottlenose…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Parts of icy Antarctica are turning green with plant life at an alarming rate as the region is gripped by…

By Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — If snapshots of the dazzling “ring of fire” that danced across the skies of South…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — The wreck of a US Navy destroyer known as the “Ghost Ship of the Pacific” has been found off the coast of…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Botanists have grown a long-lost tree species from a 1,000-year-old seed found in a cave in the Judean Desert in the…

By Amy Gunia and Alkira Reinfrank, CNN (CNN) — Apollo mission astronauts who visited the moon between 1969 and 1972 found a hopping motion…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The NASA team overseeing the iconic Voyager 2 spacecraft made the decision to power down one of its science…

By Laura Paddison and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — Asheville was touted as a climate haven, a place to escape the worst ravages of extreme weather.…

By Jack Guy, CNN London (CNN) — A medallion containing some of the original mold involved in the discovery of penicillin is expected to fetch…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A solar eclipse event will create a “ring of fire” in the skies over parts of South America on Wednesday,…

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists in Denmark have unearthed more than 50 “exceptionally well preserved” skeletons in a large…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Part of the border between Italy and Switzerland is set to be redrawn as the glaciers that mark the boundary…