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‘A war of attrition’: Humans and extreme drought damaging Amazon rainforest much more than thought, study suggests

January 27, 2023 5:29 am CNN Newsource

By Laura Paddison, CNN Human activity and extreme drought is causing far more damage to the Amazon rainforest than previously thought, exacerbating…

‘A ginormous can of worms’: How a fight over snow crabs could lead to a win for oil drilling access

January 27, 2023 3:05 am CNN Newsource

By Laura Paddison, CNN A legal fight in Norway over snow crabs could end up having big implications for access to oil in the Arctic. This week…

Newly discovered asteroid makes one of the closest approaches of Earth

January 26, 2023 10:10 am CNN Newsource

CNN By Ashley Strickland, CNN An asteroid the size of a box truck made one of the closest passes of planet Earth ever recorded. The small near-Earth…

Humans can understand apes’ sign language, new study finds

January 26, 2023 9:52 am CNN Newsource

By Issy Ronald and Amarachi Orie, CNN From pointing to animated arm movements and nodding, people regularly employ gestures to accompany and create…

Newly discovered asteroid makes one of the closest approaches of Earth

January 26, 2023 9:14 am CNN Newsource

By Ashley Strickland, CNN An asteroid the size of a box truck made one of the closest passes of planet Earth ever recorded. The small near-Earth…

Earth’s inner core may have stopped turning and could go into reverse, study suggests

January 26, 2023 7:15 am CNN Newsource

CNN By Lianne Kolirin, CNN The rotation of Earth‘s inner core may have paused and it could even go into reverse, new research suggests. The…

Iceberg roughly the size of London breaks off in Antarctica

January 25, 2023 6:28 pm CNN Newsource

CNN By Jennifer Hauser and Angela Fritz, CNN An iceberg nearly the size of Greater London broke off the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica on Sunday…

Fossils reveal the mysterious primate relatives that lived in the ancient Arctic

January 25, 2023 3:11 pm CNN Newsource

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Analysis of fossils found in the far north of Canada has revealed that two previously unknown species of ancient…

Rocket Lab launches Electron rocket from the US for the first time

January 25, 2023 9:45 am CNN Newsource

By Jackie Wattles, CNN Rocket Lab, a prolific launch company that routinely blasts its towering Electron rockets out of New Zealand, conducted its…

What scientists say about the real-life zombie fungi that inspired ‘The Last of Us’

January 25, 2023 8:10 am CNN Newsource

By Kate Golembiewski, CNN The zombies are identifiable by the fungi bursting from their bodies: a thicket of spiky tendrils, a miniature garden of…

Earth’s inner core may have stopped turning and could go into reverse, study suggests

January 25, 2023 7:02 am CNN Newsource

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN The rotation of Earth‘s inner core may have paused and it could even go into reverse, new research suggests. The Earth…

Iceberg roughly the size of London breaks off in Antarctica

January 25, 2023 6:54 am CNN Newsource

By Jennifer Hauser and Angela Fritz, CNN An iceberg nearly the size of Greater London broke off the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica on Sunday according…

NASA to test nuclear thermal rocket engine for the first time in 50 years

January 24, 2023 1:34 pm CNN Newsource

By Jackie Wattles, CNN A nuclear thermal rocket engine in development could one day transport humans to Mars. The Defense Advanced Research Projects…

The Doomsday Clock reveals how close we are to total annihilation

January 24, 2023 9:32 am CNN Newsource

By Megan Marples, Kristen Rogers and Rachel Ramirez, CNN The Doomsday Clock has been ticking for 76 years. But it’s no ordinary clock. It…

Bill Gates backs start-up tackling cow burps and farts

January 24, 2023 4:08 am CNN Newsource

By Laura Paddison, CNN It turns out burps can be big business. Billionaire Bill Gates has announced an investment in Australian start-up Rumin8,…

Rare 17-pound meteorite discovered in Antarctica

January 24, 2023 1:16 am CNN Newsource

By Jackie Wattles, CNN During a recent excursion to the icy plains of Antarctica, an international team of researchers discovered five new meteorites…

Webb telescope peers into the frozen heart of a space cloud

January 23, 2023 10:45 am CNN Newsource

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The James Webb Space Telescope peered inside a wispy molecular cloud located 630 light-years away and spied ices made of…

Trilobites armed with tridents could be the earliest known example of sexual combat

January 23, 2023 2:01 am CNN Newsource

By Kate Golembiewski, CNN From a deer’s elaborate branching antlers to the fiddler crab’s oversize claw, the animal kingdom is full of…

We are all made of stars: The long trip from the big bang to the human body

January 22, 2023 7:17 am CNN Newsource

By Bryn Nelson, CNN In its violent early years, Earth was a molten hellscape that ejected the moon after a fiery collision with another protoplanet,…

Discovery in India reveals intimate details about lives of some of the largest dinosaurs

January 21, 2023 8:32 am CNN Newsource

By Katie Hunt, CNN To pry open the mysteries of our planet’s past, scientists typically study rocks and fossilized bones. Eggs are an often…

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