How skateboarding went mainstream in Japan
As skateboarding makes its Olympic debut in Tokyo, Japan’s home team is gunning for gold. CNN’s Blake Essig speaks with the Osaka Daggers, a…
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As the West winds down its ‘war on terror,’ jihadists are filling the vacuum, UN warns
By Paul Cruickshank, Tim Lister and Nic Robertson, CNN As the 20th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, the United Nations is warning that the threat from…
Continue ReadingAstronomers spy first moon-forming disk around an exoplanet
By Ashley Strickland, CNN For the first time, astronomers have found a disk around a Jupiter-like planet outside of our solar system — the kind…
Continue ReadingWildfires have erupted across the globe, scorching places that rarely burned before
By Ivana Kottasová, CNN Photo editor Sarah Tilotta, CNN Yakutsk in Russian Siberia is known as the world’s coldest city. In a place where even…
Continue ReadingThis is what athletes are getting up to in the Olympic Village
Olympic athletes at the 2020 Games in Tokyo are sharing what life is like inside the Olympic…
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By Joshua Berlinger and Adam Renton, CNN The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2021 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. All rights…
Continue ReadingPerseverance rover prepares to collect Martian samples that will be sent to Earth
By Ashley Strickland, CNN Almost a year after NASA’s Perseverance rover was launched on its nearly seven-month journey to Mars, the robotic…
Continue ReadingThis butterfly was the first to go extinct in the US because of humans
By Ashley Strickland, CNN As the first North American insect to go extinct due to humans, a blue butterfly has become an icon for insect conservation…
Continue ReadingScientists are worried by how fast the climate crisis has amplified extreme weather
You might think that one person can’t make a difference but these five simple actions can reduce your carbon footprint and make a big…
Continue ReadingScientists are worried by how fast the climate crisis has amplified extreme weather
By Angela Dewan, CNN Until recently, climate change had been talked about as a future threat. Its frontlines were portrayed as remote places like the…
Continue ReadingEurope floods: Scale of destruction revealed as water subsides
CNN’s Sam Kiley takes a walk in Schuld, Germany, where the scale of destruction from the deadly flash flooding is revealed after the floodwater has…
Continue ReadingIngenuity helicopter spies intriguing features on Mars during record-breaking flight
By Ashley Strickland, CNN During a recent daring Martian flight by the Ingenuity helicopter July 5, the chopper acted like an aerial scout for the…
Continue ReadingCanada will finally open its borders, first to Americans, beginning August 9
By Paula Newton, CNN The long wait will soon be over for foreigners who have been banned from entering Canada for nearly 16 months. Beginning August…
Continue ReadingThe Hubble Space Telescope is functioning again after more than month offline
By Katie Hunt, CNN The Hubble Space Telescope is functioning again after more than a month offline as a result of a problem with the payload computer…
Continue ReadingDeadly floods inundated parts of Europe, but the Netherlands avoided fatalities. Here’s why
By Ivana Kottasová and Mick Krever, CNN As communities devastated by the catastrophic flooding in parts of western Europe start picking up the…
Continue ReadingPicturesque German town now choked with mud and debris
The streets of Altenahr, Germany, or what remains of them, are buried under mud, with cars wedged between collapsed buildings and piles of debris.…
Continue ReadingBiden unfriends Facebook, betrays Covid frustration
By Stephen Collinson, Caitlin Hu and Shelby Rose, CNN “They’re killing people.” President Joe Biden’s shot at social media…
Continue ReadingWhen a woman stole his dog, this man didn’t press charges. Instead, he’s paying for her drug rehab
By Alaa Elassar, CNN Drug addiction sabotaged Brayden Morton for five years. During that span, he attempted to get clean of fentanyl 16 times before…
Continue ReadingLiving on Earth while your dad walks on the moon
By Ashley Strickland, CNN There is something about stargazing that inspires us to dream, to imagine the impossible. What if, as you looked to the…
Continue ReadingNASA begins high-stakes repair to Hubble Space Telescope
By Katie Hunt, CNN NASA engineers are trying to work their magic on the Hubble Space Telescope, which stopped working on June 13 as a result of a…
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