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Katie Hunt - Senior Producer, CNN Digital

Katie Hunt

Senior Producer, CNN Digital

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Katie Hunt writes about science and health for CNN Digital based in London. She was previously a senior digital producer in Hong Kong, where she led coverage of China.

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Atlas of cells offers a milestone leap in understanding of the human body

An ambitious project launched in 2016 has made a dent in one of biology’s greatest challenges — with more than 3,600 researchers profiling more than 100 million cells.

The first panel of this artist's concept depicts how Uranus's magnetosphere (its protective bubble) was behaving before Voyager 2's flyby. The second panel shows that an unusual kind of solar weather was happening at the same time as the spacecraft's flyby, giving scientists a skewed view of Uranus's magnetosphere.

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NASA’s only visit to Uranus happened during a rare cosmic occurrence

This week, revisit what you know about Uranus, explore the far side of the moon, rediscover the famed fossil known as Lucy, and meet an otherworldly sea creature.

The lunar farside as never seen before! LROC WAC orthographic projection centered at 180° longitude, 0° latitude

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Findings from the first lunar far side samples raise new questions about the moon’s history

The first lunar samples from the moon’s far side differ in some interesting ways from those collected from the near side, according to two new studies.

Lucy at 50: How the world’s most famous fossil was discovered

Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis remains in 1974, recalls the moment he found the iconic fossil.

A three-dimensional reconstruction of Zosia's face, a woman buried as a vampire, is pictured, in this undated handout photo taken in Stockholm, Sweden. Oscar Nilsson - Project Pien/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. MANDATORY CREDIT.

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Researchers are learning more about ‘Zosia,’ the 17th century ‘vampire’ buried with a blade over her neck

Researchers recreated the face of a 17th century woman buried with a sickle across her neck and a padlock on her toe, intended to stop her from rising from the dead.

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Stunning fossil preserved in fool’s gold reveals newly identified 450 million-year-old species

A creature that scuttled along the seafloor 450 million years ago has been preserved in a rare and striking fossil that formed in fool’s gold.

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Students discover and publish unexpected proof for 2,000-year-old mathematical theory

Ne’Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson have published a paper on a new way to prove the 2000-year-old Pythagorean theorem. Their work began in a high school math contest.

Using drone-borne light detection and ranging equipment, archaeologists have mapped two abandoned cities in the mountains of Uzbekistan.

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Lost Silk Road cities mapped using remote sensing

Archaeologists have mapped two lost Silk Road cities in the mountains of Uzbekistan that were inexplicably abandoned hundreds of years ago.

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Scientists pinpoint the origins of humanity’s love of carbs

New research examines how early humans evolved to eat carbohydrates by studying the duplication of a certain gene that helped shape adaptation to starchy foods.

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‘It went horribly wrong’: DNA analysis sheds light on lost Arctic expedition’s grisly end

DNA analysis sheds new light on the fate of the men in Sir John Franklin’s doomed Arctic voyage to explore the Northwest Passage, according to the latest research.

(L-R) Heiner Linke, chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Hans Ellegren and member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry Johan Aqvist sit in front of a screen depicting the laureates (L-R) David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry during the announcement by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden on October 9, 2024. (Photo by Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP) (Photo by JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images)

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Scientists who used AI to ‘crack the code’ of almost all proteins win Nobel Prize in chemistry

The 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to a trio of scientists who used artificial intelligence to “crack the code” of almost all known proteins, the “chemical tools of life.”

A screen shows the laureates of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics, US physicist John J Hopfield (L) and Canadian-British computer scientist and cognitive psychologist Geoffrey E Hinton, during the announcement at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden on October 8, 2024. (Photo by Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP) (Photo by JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images)

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‘Godfather of AI’ shares Nobel Prize in physics for work on machine learning

The 2024 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for their fundamental discoveries in machine learning, which paved the way for how artificial intelligence is used today.

Nobel Committee Secretary General Thomas Perlmann speaks to the media in front of a picture of this year's laureates Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkum during the announcement of the winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm on October 7, 2024. Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkum won the Nobel medicine prize on October 7, 2024 for the discovery of microRNA and its role in how gene activity is regulated, the Nobel jury said. (Photo by Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP) (Photo by JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images)

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Nobel Prize in medicine goes to two American biologists for work on the discovery of microRNA

The 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their work on the discovery of microRNA, a molecule that governs how cells in the body function.

A Nobel Prize medal replica is on display inside the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo, Norway September 19, 2022.

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5 Nobel-worthy discoveries that haven’t won the prize

With the Nobel Prizes being announced this week, here are five scientific breakthroughs that haven’t resulted in a life-changing call from Sweden — at least not yet.

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Scientists grow mystery tree from 1,000-year-old seed

This week, marvel at a tree grown from an ancient seed, learn why Mount Everest is undergoing a growth spurt, discover a Viking mass burial, and more.

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Lost biblical plant with medicinal properties resurrected from 1,000-year-old seed

A long-lost tree species has new life after scientists planted a 1,000-year-old seed found in a cave in the Judean Desert in the 1980s during an archaeological dig.

Katie Hunt writes about science and health for CNN Digital based in London. She was previously a senior digital producer in Hong Kong, where she led coverage of China. Katie has also worked for Reuters and the BBC. She has a BA in Modern Chinese Studies from the University of Leeds.