Flaco the owl continues to capture the hearts of New Yorkers
CNN, WABC By Taylor Nicioli, CNN New Yorkers’ beloved owl, Flaco, escaped from his Central Park Zoo enclosure a month ago. After eluding…
Continue ReadingCNN – World
Giant 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
CNN 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 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 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 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 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 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 Reading