Green comet will appear in the night sky for the first time since the Stone Age
CNN By Ashley Strickland, CNN A recently discovered green comet will soon zip by Earth for the first time in 50,000 years. It was last visible in the…
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Green comet will appear in the night sky for the first time since the Stone Age
By Ashley Strickland, CNN A recently discovered green comet will soon zip by Earth for the first time in 50,000 years. It was last visible in the…
Continue ReadingScientists plot the resurrection of a bird that’s been extinct since the 17th century
By Katie Hunt, CNN No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of…
Continue ReadingA dire forecast: Scientists used AI to find planet could cross critical warming threshold sooner than expected
By Christian Edwards, CNN The planet could cross critical global warming thresholds sooner than previous models have predicted, even with concerted…
Continue ReadingMeet the man who has transformed our understanding of evolution
By Katie Hunt, CNN On the Galapagos Islands, a ground finch that usually munched on small, soft seeds was forced, during a drought, to eat harder,…
Continue ReadingNASA orbiter captures image of a bear’s face on Mars
By Ashley Strickland, CNN As a NASA orbiter turned its camera to the Martian surface, the face of a bear seemed to be looking back. A camera aboard…
Continue ReadingCNN Exclusive: Inside the secretive process to select the first astronauts for NASA’s next moon mission
By Kristin Fisher, CNN Sometime this spring, NASA will make one of the biggest announcements in its history when it names the initial four-person…
Continue ReadingFacing the extremes as an Arctic photographer
By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Arctic was once a surprisingly warm place — and a haven for unusual creatures. About 56 million years ago, Earth…
Continue ReadingFive Russian men fleeing military conscription have been living at a South Korean airport for months
CNN By Yoonjung Seo and Heather Chen, CNN Five Russian men who fled the country after Moscow’s military mobilization order last September have…
Continue ReadingStowaway gecko survives 3,000-mile voyage from Egypt to Manchester in a box of strawberries
By Zoe Sottile, CNN A globe-trotting gecko has accidentally made the trip from Egypt to England after hitching a ride in a container of strawberries.…
Continue ReadingFive Russian men fleeing military conscription have been living at a South Korean airport for months
By Yoonjung Seo and Heather Chen, CNN Five Russian men who fled the country after Moscow’s military mobilization order last September have been…
Continue ReadingWest to deliver 321 tanks to Ukraine, says diplomat, as North Korea accuses US of ‘crossing the red line’
By Pierre Meilhan and Heather Chen, CNN Western countries will deliver more than 300 tanks to Ukraine, Kyiv’s ambassador to France said Friday.…
Continue ReadingWest to deliver 321 tanks to Ukraine, says diplomat, as North Korea accuses US of ‘crossing the red line’
CNN By Pierre Meilhan and Heather Chen, CNN Western countries will deliver more than 300 tanks to Ukraine, Kyiv’s ambassador to France said…
Continue Reading‘A war of attrition’: Humans and extreme drought damaging Amazon rainforest much more than thought, study suggests
By Laura Paddison, CNN Human activity and extreme drought is causing far more damage to the Amazon rainforest than previously thought, exacerbating…
Continue Reading‘A ginormous can of worms’: How a fight over snow crabs could lead to a win for oil drilling access
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…
Continue ReadingNewly discovered asteroid makes one of the closest approaches of Earth
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…
Continue ReadingHumans can understand apes’ sign language, new study finds
By Issy Ronald and Amarachi Orie, CNN From pointing to animated arm movements and nodding, people regularly employ gestures to accompany and create…
Continue ReadingNewly discovered asteroid makes one of the closest approaches of Earth
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…
Continue ReadingEarth’s inner core may have stopped turning and could go into reverse, study suggests
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…
Continue ReadingIceberg roughly the size of London breaks off in Antarctica
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…
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