
Paul McCartney Fast Facts
CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of musician Paul McCartney, former member of the Beatles. Personal Birth date: June 18, 1942 Birth…
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of musician Paul McCartney, former member of the Beatles. Personal Birth date: June 18, 1942 Birth…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN It’s a distinctly human trait to believe the impossible is a puzzle waiting to be solved. We’re driven to…
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the solstice. The next summer solstice will take place on June 21, 2022. The next winter solstice will take…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN When a small female tortoise was spotted in 2019 on the inaccessible volcanic island of Fernandina in the Galapagos,…
Continue ReadingResearchers in Tokyo have grown human-like, living skin on a robotic finger, with plans to make the skin self-sustaining by adding veins, and later…
Continue ReadingBy Megan Marples, CNN Skin has traditionally been reserved for animals — until now. For the first time, scientists learned to grow humanlike…
Continue ReadingBy Max Foster and Rob Picheta, CNN Homelessness and long-term unemployment aren’t problems we generally associate with the royals, who’ve…
Continue ReadingBy Megan Marples, CNN The Perseverance rover made friends with a pet rock about four months ago, and the two have been inseparable ever since. A rock…
Continue ReadingIn today’s episode of The Point, CNN’s Chris Cillizza explains why Congress is starting to investigate UFOs — also known as UAPs (unidentified…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt and Ashley Strickland, CNN NASA is putting a team together to study unidentified aerial phenomena, popularly known as UFOs, the US…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN One of the 18 golden segments of the James Webb Space Telescope’s giant mirror was hit by a micrometeoroid in May,…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN Astronomers have detected a mysterious, repeating fast radio burst emanating from a dwarf galaxy located 3 billion…
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. Personal Birth date: June 19, 1951 Death date: July 31,…
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Ramirez, CNN The amount of money needed to aid communities in the face of extreme weather-related emergencies has increased by more than…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN NASA will launch a mission that will both fly by Venus and descend through its harsh atmosphere in 2029. Called DAVINCI,…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN Just a couple of weeks after the Ingenuity helicopter celebrated a year of flying on Mars, things got quiet. For the first…
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Ramirez, CNN Humans’ historical greenhouse gas emissions have caused the climate crisis the world is in today. But it’s the…
Continue ReadingCNN chief climate correspondent Bill Weir tells CNN’s Brianna Keilar what environmental factors led to homes collapsing into the ocean in the Outer…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN “The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.” This Sherlock Holmes quote from…
Continue ReadingThe yellow-eyed penguin — known as hoiho which means “noise shouter” in Māori — is the largest of the penguin species that live on New Zealand’s…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN Astronauts have been venturing into space for 61 years to unlock the human potential for exploration. But the floating…
Continue ReadingBy Nadine Schmidt, CNN At least four people were killed and 15 severely injured when a train derailed in southern Germany on Friday, according to…
Continue ReadingBy Kathleen Magramo, CNN Almost half of the Earth’s land surface must be protected to stop the biodiversity crisis, according to a new report…
Continue ReadingBy Megan Marples and Ashley Strickland, CNN Don’t forget to look up this weekend to see the start of a rare, five-planet alignment grace the…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN A strange early relative of the giraffe was perfectly adapted for some serious headbutting 17 million years ago, according…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN New spacesuits made by Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace could be worn by astronauts that land on the moon later this…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN The world’s largest living plant has been identified in the shallow waters off the coast of Western Australia, according to…
Continue ReadingWorld Health Organization’s top Monkeypox expert Dr. Rosamund Lewis tells Amanpour the virus can affect anyone in close contact and warns against…
Continue ReadingBy Rob Picheta and Hafsa Khalil, CNN At first glance, the news all seems a bit too familiar. A new virus outbreak is detected. It starts spreading…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN Megalodon, the giant shark that lived more than 23 million years ago and was inspiration for the movie “The Meg,” was…
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