Tiny rare fossil found in 16 million-year-old amber is ‘once-in-a-generation’ find
By Ashley Strickland, CNN Microscopic tardigrades have thrived on Earth for more than 500 million years, and may well outlive humans, but the tiny…
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Planet with iron rainfall is even more extreme than scientists thought
By Ashley Strickland, CNN On this sizzling exoplanet hundreds of light-years from Earth, droplets of iron rain fall from the sky at night. Now,…
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CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the Islamic New Year. For followers of Islam in the western hemisphere, the next New Year begins on the…
Continue ReadingNASA’s DART mission will deliberately crash into an asteroid’s moon in the name of planetary defense
By Ashley Strickland, CNN A spacecraft that will deliberately crash into an asteroid is preparing to launch. The DART mission, or NASA’s Double…
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CNN, EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY, MATTEL, DAMIAN KULASH, GEOFF SHELTON, SPORTS ULLUSTRATED, NASA By Ashley Strickland, CNN A spacecraft that will…
Continue ReadingNobel Prize in physics awarded to scientists whose work warned the world of climate change
By Rob Picheta and Katie Hunt, CNN The Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to scientists Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi,…
Continue ReadingMars robots take cruise control during solar event
By Ashley Strickland, CNN Everyone needs a break. My technology-cluttered surroundings were replaced recently with mountain trails and a lake where…
Continue ReadingWinnie the Pooh’s ‘Poohsticks Bridge’ for sale at auction house
By Theresa Waldrop, CNN The bridge made famous in the Winnie the Pooh books — where the bear and his friends played “pooh sticks”…
Continue Reading2021 has ‘not been a good year for peacemaking.’ But WHO is tipped for the Nobel Peace Prize
By Lianne Kolirin, CNN After 18 turbulent months spent tackling the global Covid-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) is being broadly…
Continue ReadingHe’s the most popular man on TikTok. And he doesn’t say a word
By Faith Karimi and Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN When Italy first went into a coronavirus lockdown last year, Khabane Lame had just lost his job at a…
Continue ReadingMercury mission flies by closest planet to the sun for the first time
By Ashley Strickland, CNN Mercury, the smallest planet in our solar system, was getting photographed Friday by a spacecraft. The BepiColombo mission…
Continue ReadingThis solar event will halt communication with Mars missions for 2 weeks
By Ashley Strickland, CNN Things are about to get a little quiet between NASA and its fleet of robotic Mars explorers. That’s because an…
Continue ReadingUS inks $20 million deal to launch high-tech weather satellites in space
By Kristin Fisher, CNN The United States is aiming to launch a group of small satellites to fill a critical gap in the ability to foresee…
Continue ReadingAll eyes on the Nobel Prizes for science next week. Here’s what to expect
By Katie Hunt, CNN The coronavirus pandemic has focused attention on the role of science in society like never before — and the pace of…
Continue ReadingLong Covid is a bigger problem than we thought
By Ivana Kottasová and Isabelle Jani Friend, CNN The long Covid problem might be bigger than we thought. A large study has revealed that one in…
Continue Reading‘Horned crocodile-faced hell heron’ is one of two new Isle of Wight dinosaur discoveries
By Ashley Strickland, CNN While the Isle of Wight may be better suited for tourists these days, it was once “Dinosaur Island.” Its fossil…
Continue ReadingGreta Thunberg roasts world leaders for being ‘blah, blah, blah’ on climate action
CNN By Angela Dewan, CNN Swedish activist Greta Thunberg mocked world leaders — including US President Joe Biden and the UK’s Boris…
Continue ReadingGreta Thunberg roasts world leaders for being ‘blah, blah, blah’ on climate action
By Angela Dewan, CNN Swedish activist Greta Thunberg mocked world leaders — including US President Joe Biden to the UK’s Boris Johnson…
Continue ReadingNASA’s Lucy mission will observe the earliest ‘fossils’ of the solar system
By Ashley Strickland, CNN The first NASA mission to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroid swarms is getting ready to launch. The Lucy mission has…
Continue ReadingCanada and China in heated spat at UN over allegations of hostage diplomacy
By Richard Roth, Caitlin Hu and Ben Westcott, CNN A heated back-and-forth between China and Canada kicked off in the final hours of the UN General…
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