Gardeners are inadvertently killing scores of earthworms with soil conditioners marketed as “organic”, experts fear, as they call for tighter regulation on products that poison the invertebrates.Earthworms may appear humble, but Charles Darwin thought their wo... More »
The ambush was simple. A spotter on a hill would scan the sea and when he saw the big black fins approach, he would shout down to the boatmen. They would ready their nets and quickly row out to the kill zone.When a shark got tangled in the mesh, Brian McNeill ... More »
South and Southeast Asian countries have been coping with a weekslong heat wave rendering record high temperatures that have posed a severe health risk.Umbrellas to shield against blazing sunlight are popular, air-conditioned malls are serving as urban oases, ... More »
In Los Angeles, those who wage war on mosquitoes are adding a weapon to their arsenal: more mosquitoes.The Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District on Thursday launched a pilot program to release tens of thousands of irradiated, lab-raised mosquitoes... More »
Hainan, a Chinese island that’s geographically closer to Hanoi than Beijing, is known as the Hawaii of China due to its sandy beaches and temperate weather.But there’s another reason tourists from around China are flocking to Hainan these days: space.The city ... More »
/ Attacks on environmental journalists are on the rise, according to a UNESCO report.Rufino Choque, from the Urus Indigenous community, stands over a boat in the middle of the extinct Poopó Lake, which disappeared in 2015. Photo by Manuel SeoaneAttacks against... More »
Virgin Galactic will fly again next month, if all goes according to plan.The company announced on Wednesday (May 1) that it's targeting June 8 for its seventh commercial spaceflight, a suborbital jaunt called, fittingly enough, Galactic 07.It will be Virgin Ga... More »
Sometime in the next few years — no one knows exactly when — three NASA satellites, each one as heavy as an elephant, will go dark.Already they are drifting, losing height bit by bit. They have been gazing down at the planet for over two decades, far longer th... More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more.After years of delays and a dizzying array of setbacks during test flights, Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is finally... More »
Scientists recently reconstructed a Neanderthal skull that was both flattened like a pancake and shattered into pieces. The team then also used digital technology to create a 3-D approximation of the 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal’s face. The archeologists... More »
Bird flu was probably circulating in dairy cows for at least four months before it was confirmed to be the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus, according to a new analysis of genomic data by scientists at the US Department of Agriculture’s Animal Disease Center.The r... More »
There is no denying the awesome predictive power of Albert Einstein's 1915 theory of gravity, general relativity — yet, the theory still has inconsistencies when it comes to calculating its effect on vast distances. And new research suggests these inconsistenc... More »