Tottenham forward Son Heung-min finished his three-week military training in South Korea on Friday and was right near the top of the class.

While NBA teams are slowly gearing up to return to training facilities this week, the league has reportedly issued a memo prohibiting those with elevated temperatures from participating.  

The Washington Capitals announced Friday that forward Brendan Leipsic was placed on unconditional waivers after his private messages were leaked on social media Wednesday.

The NFL Players Coalition and other athletes and coaches called on the Justice Department and the FBI to launch a federal investigation into the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery in a letter Friday.

Tennessee Titans quarterback Ryan Tannehill stepped up for a teammate who was in need.

Vanessa Bryant, the widow of late NBA star Kobe Bryant, filed a legal claim Friday against the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department over graphic photos that deputies allegedly took and shared of the helicopter crash scene where her husband, 13-year-old daughter, Gigi, and seven others were killed in late January.

Historically, recessions have hit men harder. This time it's different, economists say.

Education Minister Stephen Lecce said the government will cover fixed operating costs and waive all fees related to licensing applications, renewals and revisions.

Astronomers have more places to look for signs of intelligent life and more advanced tools to find it

On a ship frozen in the Arctic, scientists have spent all winter to shed light on exactly how the world is changing

These scientists and inventors set out to change the planet with these out-of-the-box ideas

As the pachyderms increasingly clash with farmers and villagers over disappearing land, scientists study the way the animals' minds work

Fed up with invasive species and sterile landscapes, Douglas Tallamy urges Americans to go native and go natural

Deepen your understanding of the natural world with these free resources

Yes, most infectious diseases are seasonal. But waiting for COVID-19 to wane on its own is a bad idea

With the COVID-19 coronavirus causing a global pandemic, a look back at the scientists who figured out viruses and their relationship to disease

The curious set of numbers shows up in nature and also in human activities.

An early childhood education expert provides tips about how to explain the ongoing pandemic to children

Debate over Earth’s oldest fossils fuels the search for our deepest origins

Though COVID-19 likely makes recovered patients immune, experts aren't sure how long protection lasts

The different hominid species, possibly including the oldest-known Homo erectus, existed in the region's hills and caves

Researchers suggest that the Humboldt squid uses bioluminescent backlighting for visual cues in the dark deep sea

Researchers see promise in recruiting red siskin pet traders as conservation partners

Congratulations to first-time mother Echo the cheetah!

False information about the pandemic is rampant; here’s how experts say you can identify what news to trust and what might be faulty

Fossil teeth uncovered in Peru reveal that an extinct family of primates, thought to have lived only in Africa, made it across the ocean

The Smithsonian's Earth Optimism Summit will now stream online starting this Earth Day; tune in and be inspired

The containment practices of outbreaks past could have lessons for modern epidemics

The SARS-CoV-2 virus endures for days on plastic or metal but disintegrates soon after landing on copper surfaces. Here’s why

No one knows exactly how the nocturnal hunters manage their whisper-soft flight, yet it's inspiring the design of quieter airplanes, fans and wind turbines

A new study of ancient climate has a dire warning about today's dry conditions

The fourth installment in our weekly series spotlights titles that may have been lost in the news amid the COVID-19 crisis

The story of what will happen in the coming decades and centuries is written in the geologic past

Smithsonian's Earth Optimism Summit features CNN's Chief Climate Correspondent Bill Weir

The outbreak was far deadlier than COVID-19, but the empire survived

Marine biologist Cristina Mittermeier discovered that visual storytelling, rather than data sets, allowed her to be a better advocate for the ocean

Meet the hugely influential polymath, who foretold of climate change and inspired artists, writers and even the founder of the Smithsonian

What lies inside the icy cavern seems more and more like a captive, rare animal, an Earth form that might soon be lost

The sixth installment in our weekly series spotlights titles that may have been lost in the news amid the COVID-19 crisis

When a European intellectual snubbed the U.S., the well-known artist excavated the giant fossil as evidence of the new Republic’s strength and power

According to many observations, certain virus infections may play a part in the autoimmune attack that leads to type 1 diabetes. Researchers have now produced a vaccine for these viruses in the hope that it could provide protection against the disease.

Computers, mobile phones and all other electronic devices contain thousands of transistors, linked together by thin films of metal. Scientists have developed a method that can use the electrons in a plasma to produce these films.

Repurposing existing medicines focused on known drug targets is likely to offer a more rapid hope of tackling COVID-19 than developing and manufacturing a vaccine, argue an international team of scientists.

High-temperature superconductors have the potential to revolutionize today's technologies. 'Higgs spectroscopy' could bring about a watershed as it reveals the dynamics of paired electrons in superconductors. Remarkably, the dynamics also reveal typical precursors of superconductivity even above the critical temperature at which the materials investigated attain superconductivity.

Researchers analyzed patient data from 10 countries. The team found a correlation between low vitamin D levels and hyperactive immune systems. Vitamin D strengths innate immunity and prevents overactive immune responses. The finding could explain several mysteries, including why children are unlikely to die from COVID-19.

Researchers have developed a safe and accurate 3D imaging method to identify sperm cells moving at a high speed. The new method has the potential to significantly improve IVF treatments.

A new study has found an association between low average levels of vitamin D and high numbers of COVID-19 cases and mortality rates across 20 European countries.

People with body integrity dysphoria (BID) often feel as though one of their healthy limbs isn't meant to be a part of their bodies. They may act as though the limb is missing or even seek its amputation 'to feel complete.' Now, researchers have found that these feelings that a limb doesn't belong are mirrored in the brains of people with this condition.

A new process to harness multiple disease models for outbreak management has been developed by an international team of researchers. The team will immediately implement the process to help inform policy decisions for the COVID-19 outbreak.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the ground-based Gemini Observatory in Hawaii have teamed up with the Juno spacecraft to probe the mightiest storms in the solar system, taking place more than 500 million miles away on the giant planet Jupiter.