NASA tracks a newly discovered asteroid that has a ‘small chance’ of hitting Earth in 2046
By Jackie Wattles and Kristin Fisher, CNN A newly discovered asteroid roughly the size of an Olympic swimming pool has a “small chance”…
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Bees learn waggle dance moves with a little help from their coworkers
By Mindy Weisberger, CNN Booty-shaking worker bees guide their fellow workers to pollen by a form of communication known as “waggle…
Continue ReadingMore than 170 trillion plastic particles found in the ocean as pollution reaches ‘unprecedented’ levels
By Laura Paddison, CNN The world’s oceans are polluted by a “plastic smog” made up of an estimated 171 trillion plastic particles…
Continue ReadingNASA’s Curiosity rover shares a stunning sunset on Mars
By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Curiosity rover just sent back a stunning postcard capturing its view of a shimmering sunset on Mars. The NASA rover…
Continue ReadingAstronomers detect water molecules swirling around a star
By Ashley Strickland, CNN A nearby star system is helping astronomers unravel the mystery of how water appeared in our solar system billions of years…
Continue ReadingScientists have revived a ‘zombie’ virus that spent 48,500 years frozen in permafrost
By Katie Hunt, CNN Warmer temperatures in the Arctic are thawing the region’s permafrost — a frozen layer of soil beneath the ground — and…
Continue ReadingWhat to know about Holi, the festival of colors
By Harmeet Kaur, CNN Millions of people in India and around the world celebrating Holi this week. The Hindu festival of love, color and spring is one…
Continue ReadingCanada orders investigation into alleged election interference, including from China
By Paula Newton, CNN Amid recent allegations that China attempted to meddle in Canada’s 2019 and 2021 elections, Canadian Prime Minister Justin…
Continue ReadingGender equality will take 300 years to achieve, UN chief warns
By Tara Subramaniam, CNN Progress toward gender equality is “vanishing before our eyes,” United Nations Secretary General António…
Continue ReadingA worm moon will illuminate the sky this week
By Kristen Rogers and Ashley Strickland, CNN The final full moon of winter will light up the sky this week, and it coincides with another special…
Continue ReadingUS evaluating Ukrainian pilots for possible F-16 training
By Zachary Cohen, Aaron Pellish, Chloe Liu and Heather Chen, CNN The US is working with Ukrainian pilots in the United States to determine how long…
Continue ReadingCountries agree on historic oceans treaty to protect the high seas
By Laura Paddison, CNN Nearly 200 countries have agreed to a legally-binding “high seas treaty” to protect marine life in international…
Continue ReadingSub-Saharan African countries repatriating citizens from Tunisia after ‘shocking’ statements from country’s president
By Xiaofei Xu and Kareem El Damanhoury, CNN Several sub-Saharan countries, including Ivory Coast, Mali, Guinea and Gabon, are helping their citizens…
Continue ReadingHuman brain-powered computers could be the way of the future
By Ashley Strickland, CNN The human brain is unrivaled in its capacity to process information. Sure, we have days where our minds don’t feel as…
Continue ReadingAfter tracking down the ‘ketchup boat guy,’ Heinz is ready to give him a new boat
By Zoe Sottile, CNN After enlisting the public’s help to find Elvis Francois, a sailor who survived weeks lost at sea off of ketchup and…
Continue ReadingFlaco the owl continues to capture the hearts of New Yorkers
By Taylor Nicioli, CNN New Yorkers’ beloved owl, Flaco, escaped from his Central Park Zoo enclosure a month ago. After eluding various rescue…
Continue ReadingFlaco the owl continues to capture the hearts of New Yorkers
By Taylor Nicioli, CNN New Yorkers’ beloved owl, Flaco, escaped from his Central Park Zoo enclosure a month ago. After eluding various rescue…
Continue ReadingGiant flying insect found on Walmart building turns out to be Jurassic-era find
By Taylor Nicioli, CNN An insect found on the side of a Fayetteville, Arkansas, big-box store has been identified as the species Polystoechotes…
Continue ReadingNewly discovered chemicals are so deadly to fungi they are named after Keanu Reeves
By Taylor Nicioli, CNN It’s not every day that effective fungus-killing compounds are discovered, so researchers in Germany knew their recent…
Continue ReadingAfter slight delay, SpaceX astronaut capsule docks at space station
By Jackie Wattles, CNN A crew of astronauts aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule docked at the International Space Station, concluding a one-day trip…
Continue ReadingBoreal forests could be a planet-warming ‘time bomb’ as wildfires expand, says new study
By Jack Guy, CNN The world’s most northerly forests could be a “time bomb” of planet-warming pollution as expanding wildfires have…
Continue ReadingNewly discovered hummingbird looks like it’s wearing a golden collar
By Ashley Strickland, CNN When researchers found a hummingbird with shiny gold feathers on its throat in Peru’s Cordillera Azul National Park,…
Continue ReadingNew image captures a supernova first observed in the year 185
By Ashley Strickland, CNN A new telescope image has shed light on the ghostly remains of the first recorded supernova. More than 1,800 years ago, in…
Continue ReadingMove over, artificial intelligence. Scientists announce a new ‘organoid intelligence’ field
By Ashley Strickland, CNN Computers powered by human brain cells may sound like science fiction, but a team of researchers in the United States…
Continue ReadingSea monsters? This bizarre whale feeding technique may explain some ancient folklore
By Jackie Wattles, CNN Scientists are puzzling over a strange feeding technique that they think whales recently began using: The creatures swim to…
Continue ReadingSpaceX launches international crew of astronauts on space station mission
By Jackie Wattles, CNN SpaceX and NASA launched a fresh crew of astronauts on a mission to the International Space Station, kicking off a roughly…
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Tesla to build next plant in Mexico
Originally Published: 01 MAR 23 20:11 ETBy Chris Isidore, CNN (CNN) — Tesla’s next vehicle assembly plant will be in Mexico…
Continue ReadingSpaceX launches international crew of astronauts on space station mission
By Jackie Wattles, CNN SpaceX and NASA launched a fresh crew of astronauts on a mission to the International Space Station, kicking off a roughly…
Continue ReadingHubble Space Telescope captured ‘movie’ of spacecraft slamming into asteroid
By Ashley Strickland, CNN When a NASA spacecraft intentionally crashed into an asteroid on September 26, the collision caused the space rock to…
Continue ReadingWhy the northern and southern lights appear to be so active right now
By Katie Hunt, CNN The breathtaking dancing shimmer of the aurora borealis and its counterpart in the southern hemisphere, aurora australis, dazzles…
Continue ReadingTwo planets will appear to ‘kiss’ in the sky tonight
By Katie Hunt and Ashley Strickland, CNN Jupiter and Venus will appear very close together in the night sky on Wednesday, with the two planets set to…
Continue ReadingSUVs produced more planet-heating pollution than most countries last year, new figures show
By Laura Paddison, CNN While global car sales might have fallen in 2022, one type of car, with an especially large climate footprint, had a great…
Continue ReadingSpaceX, NASA astronaut launch to International Space Station called off at last minute
By Jackie Wattles, CNN SpaceX and NASA have called off an astronaut launch to the International Space Station after an issue with the rocket’s…
Continue ReadingHow ’15-minute cities’ turned into an international conspiracy theory
By Laura Paddison, CNN Duncan Enright never imagined he’d get death threats over a plan to reduce grinding city traffic. But it is exactly what…
Continue ReadingAmsterdam’s train tunnels reveal surprising windows into the past
By Ashley Strickland, CNN Scientists have long believed our planet is built upon four layers of rocks, minerals and magma deposited over millions of…
Continue ReadingKetchup helped him survive weeks lost at sea. Now Heinz wants to buy him a new boat
By Zoe Sottile, CNN The sailor who spent weeks lost at sea in January, surviving largely off of ketchup, could have a new, state-of-the-art boat…
Continue ReadingSurprising ‘forbidden planet’ discovered outside our solar system
By Ashley Strickland, CNN Astronomers have found an unusually large planet orbiting a small star, located about 280 light-years from Earth. The…
Continue ReadingRussian replacement spacecraft for astronauts stranded by coolant leak docks with space station
By Jackie Wattles, CNN Russia launched a Soyuz spacecraft to replace a capsule that sprang a coolant leak in December, leaving two cosmonauts and one…
Continue ReadingEarliest evidence of bow and arrow use outside Africa unearthed in France
By Katie Hunt, CNN Archaeologists digging in a cave in southern France say they have unearthed the earliest evidence of bow and arrow use outside…
Continue ReadingAn elite Bronze Age man had brain surgery more than 3,000 years ago
By Ashley Strickland, CNN When archaeologists uncovered the burial site of two brothers who lived during the 15th century BC in Israel, they were…
Continue ReadingAn organism used as fire starter for centuries could replace some plastics, study finds
By Jackie Wattles, CNN A tough, bell-shaped fungus that grows on the rotting bark of trees has been used as a fire starter for centuries, earning it…
Continue ReadingAsh Wednesday’s changing tradition
By Francisco Guzman and Pete Burn, CNN Are you ready to give up caffeine for 40 days? What about your social media accounts? While giving up those…
Continue ReadingWebb telescope makes a surprising galactic discovery in the distant universe
By Ashley Strickland, CNN Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer back in time to the early days of the universe — and they…
Continue Reading‘Ted Lasso’ star Hannah Waddingham will host Eurovision 2023
By Issy Ronald, CNN “Ted Lasso” star Hannah Waddingham will host this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool, England…
Continue ReadingEarth’s innermost layer is a 400-mile-wide ball of iron, new study suggests
By Jackie Wattles, CNN Scientists have long wondered what lies at the very center of the Earth, and the latest research is putting weight behind a…
Continue ReadingEarth’s driest place shows why it may be harder than we thought to find signs of life on Mars
By Ashley Strickland, CNN Finding potential evidence of life on Mars may be more difficult than expected, according to new research. Missions such as…
Continue ReadingSUVs produced more planet-heating pollution than most countries last year, new figures show
By Laura Paddison, CNN While global car sales might have fallen in 2022, one type of car, with an especially large climate footprint, had a great…
Continue ReadingAntarctic sea ice hit record lows again. Scientists wonder if it’s ‘the beginning of the end’
By Laura Paddison, CNN Antarctic sea ice has reached record low levels for the second time in two years, with some scientists alarmed that dramatic…
Continue ReadingNew type of salty ice may exist on extraterrestrial ocean moons
By Ashley Strickland, CNN The mysterious red streaks crisscrossing the surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa may be the result of a newly discovered…
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Newborn saved from earthquake in Syria adopted by her aunt
By GHAITH ALSAYED and BASSEM MROUE JINDERIS, Syria (AP) — A baby girl who was born under the rubble of her family’s earthquake-shattered home has…
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