President Biden to send Abrams tanks to Ukraine
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Rocket Lab launches Electron rocket from the US for the first time
By Jackie Wattles, CNN Rocket Lab, a prolific launch company that routinely blasts its towering Electron rockets out of New Zealand, conducted its…
Continue ReadingWhat scientists say about the real-life zombie fungi that inspired ‘The Last of Us’
By Kate Golembiewski, CNN The zombies are identifiable by the fungi bursting from their bodies: a thicket of spiky tendrils, a miniature garden of…
Continue ReadingEarth’s inner core may have stopped turning and could go into reverse, study suggests
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…
Continue ReadingIceberg roughly the size of London breaks off in Antarctica
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…
Continue ReadingNASA to test nuclear thermal rocket engine for the first time in 50 years
By Jackie Wattles, CNN A nuclear thermal rocket engine in development could one day transport humans to Mars. The Defense Advanced Research Projects…
Continue ReadingThe Doomsday Clock reveals how close we are to total annihilation
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…
Continue ReadingBill Gates backs start-up tackling cow burps and farts
By Laura Paddison, CNN It turns out burps can be big business. Billionaire Bill Gates has announced an investment in Australian start-up Rumin8,…
Continue ReadingRare 17-pound meteorite discovered in Antarctica
By Jackie Wattles, CNN During a recent excursion to the icy plains of Antarctica, an international team of researchers discovered five new meteorites…
Continue ReadingWebb telescope peers into the frozen heart of a space cloud
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…
Continue ReadingTrilobites armed with tridents could be the earliest known example of sexual combat
By Kate Golembiewski, CNN From a deer’s elaborate branching antlers to the fiddler crab’s oversize claw, the animal kingdom is full of…
Continue ReadingWe are all made of stars: The long trip from the big bang to the human body
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,…
Continue ReadingDiscovery in India reveals intimate details about lives of some of the largest dinosaurs
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…
Continue ReadingSouth Korea’s lunar probe captures stunning Earth, moon images
By Ashley Strickland, CNN South Korea’s first lunar probe has returned some striking images of Earth and the moon. The Korean Pathfinder Lunar…
Continue ReadingOrigins of plague could have emerged centuries before outbreaks, new study suggests
By Amarachi Orie, CNN In the largest DNA analysis of its kind, scientists have found evidence to suggest that historic plague pandemics, such as the…
Continue ReadingNew Zealand Education Minister Chris Hipkins bids to replace Jacinda Ardern as PM
By Mitchell McCluskey, Caitlin Hu and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Chris Hipkins, New Zealand’s education minister, is bidding to replace Jacinda…
Continue ReadingCar-size laser deflects lightning atop a mountain in Switzerland
By Ashley Strickland, CNN Scientists were able to create a virtual lightning rod using a large, powerful laser atop a mountain in Switzerland,…
Continue ReadingMan survives on ketchup for weeks lost at sea
By Heather Chen, Angus Watson, Mitchell McCluskey and Stefano Pozzebon, CNN A man who spent 24 days adrift in the Caribbean Sea says he survived by…
Continue ReadingThese 3 solutions could turn the tide on the climate crisis
By Laura Paddison, CNN Climate change is sending the world hurtling towards a series of catastrophic tipping points, which risk setting off feedback…
Continue ReadingBillions of celestial objects captured by new survey of the Milky Way
By Ashley Strickland, CNN A new survey of the Milky Way galaxy has unveiled 3.3 billion celestial objects. Our galaxy is brimming with hundreds of…
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