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CNN Editorial Research Here’s some background information about the Summer Olympics, which is held every four years. The 2020 Olympic Games…
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research Here’s some background information about the Summer Olympics, which is held every four years. The 2020 Olympic Games…
Continue ReadingBy Uliana Pavlova and Kristin Fisher, CNN Russia says it is planning to pull out of the International Space Station and end its decades-long…
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at Hajj, an annual pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia. On average, more than two million Muslims a year…
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research Here’s some background information about Big Ben, the clock and bell in Elizabeth Tower at the Houses of Parliament in…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN A provocative study published earlier this year proposed that the world’s best-known and perhaps best-loved dinosaur,…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN When I was training to be a journalist, the best piece of advice I got was KISS — keep it simple, stupid. It’s a…
Continue ReadingThe Patagonian ice dragon lives on glaciers and is believed to have natural anti-freeze in its blood. This rare creature is endangered because its…
Continue ReadingBy Madeline Holcombe and Jalen Beckford, CNN One of the most popular and recognizable insects is at risk of extinction, according to a global…
Continue ReadingStory by Reuters Brutal heat waves are gripping both Europe and the United States this week and are forecast to dump searing temperatures on much of…
Continue ReadingWilliam Shatner joins CNN’s Anderson Cooper to react to newly-released NASA images and discuss the questions and answers the new photos…
Continue ReadingSeveral days of unusually warm weather in northern Greenland have triggered rapid melting, made visible by the rivers of meltwater rushing into the…
Continue ReadingBy René Marsh and Angela Fritz, CNN The water off the coast of northwest Greenland is a glass-like calm, but the puddles accumulating on the…
Continue ReadingBy Megan Marples, CNN NASA’s Perseverance rover captured an unusual image of something lying in the red sand of Mars: a bundle of string. The…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN Prepare for a potential liftoff to the moon at the end of the summer. The Artemis I mega rocket may be launching on its…
Continue ReadingBy Rob Picheta, CNN Hundreds of millions of people around the world were sweltering in extreme heat on Wednesday, as record-breaking heat waves set…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN A 2,000-year-old fortress built on a mountainside in what’s now Iraqi Kurdistan could be part of a lost royal city called…
Continue ReadingBy Leah Asmelash, CNN Russia’s highest ranked female tennis player came out as gay in an interview, while addressing rising homophobic…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN An elusive type of black hole has been discovered in a neighboring galaxy for the first time, according to a new study based on…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN The James Webb Space Telescope’s first stunning images of the distant universe have been followed up by something a…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN If you have ever watched “It’s a Wonderful Life,” the film has an unexpected cosmic cameo. A group of…
Continue ReadingCNN By Phil Mattingly, CNN Soaring gas prices may have been the driving factor behind President Joe Biden’s decision to visit Saudi Arabia, but…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN The blue whale’s giant corpse was lying washed up on a rocky beach on the Pacific coast of Patagonia, at the southern tip of…
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Ramirez, CNN Temperatures in the UK are expected to soar to all-time highs early next week, prompting the British government to issue a…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN Ocean worlds in our solar system are attractive places in the search for life beyond Earth. Beneath a thick, icy shell,…
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research Here’s some background information about World War I, also known as the First World War and the Great War, which lasted…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN The Perseverance rover now has a new job: acting as a location scout on Mars. In addition to collecting the first samples…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN A mysterious radio burst with a pattern similar to a heartbeat has been detected in space. Astronomers estimate that the…
Continue ReadingNASA released the first five high-resolution images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. They include “the deepest & sharpest infrared image of…
Continue ReadingAstrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson joins CNN to react to Elon Musk’s tweet about colonizing Mars. Hear what he thinks could be in our…
Continue ReadingCNN Aerospace Analyst Miles O’Brien joins Becky Anderson to break down the latest photos from the James Webb Space Telescope. The stunning images…
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