November 26 Omicron variant news
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A new Covid-19 variant with high number of mutations sparks travel bans and worries scientists
By David McKenzie, Ghazi Balkiz and Ivana Kottasová, CNN The discovery of a new and potentially more transmissible coronavirus variant by South…
Continue Reading How US gun culture stacks up with the world
A wrap of some of the latest smash and grabs with a look at why experts say we might be seeing more of them…
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By Kara Fox, Krystina Shveda, Natalie Croker and Marco Chacon, CNN Monterey Park. Atlanta. Orlando. Las Vegas. Newtown. Parkland. San Bernardino.…
Continue Reading Amber captures rare plant behavior in an ancient, extinct pine cone
By Katie Hunt, CNN The first fossil evidence of a pine cone sprouting seeds has been preserved in 40 million-year-old amber. Seed germination…
Continue Reading A new Covid-19 variant could show immune evasion and enhanced transmissibility, South African scientists warn
CNN’s David McKenzie reports on the UK adding six African countries to the “red list” over a new variant South African scientists believe could evade…
Continue Reading A new Covid-19 variant could show immune evasion and enhanced transmissibility, South African scientists warn
By David McKenzie and Ghazi Balkiz, CNN South Africa’s health minister announced Thursday the discovery of a new coronavirus variant that…
Continue Reading Politicians are failing to deliver climate justice. Lawyers and scientists could do it in court
By Angela Dewan and Isabelle Jani-Friend, CNN There were few memorable moments at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow earlier this month, but a…
Continue Reading This is how astronauts celebrate Thanksgiving in space
By Ashley Strickland, CNN The holidays still happen in space, they just look a little bit different. But the sentiments are the same.…
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American food may be hard to categorize, but American food history shows people in the United States have similar tastes that go beyond fast…
Continue Reading Missouri dig site is home to at least 4 rare dinosaurs, and there could be more
By Sherry Liang, CNN The first tracings of dinosaurs in Missouri were found in the 1940s on the Chronister family’s property when they were…
Continue Reading Europe is facing 700,000 more Covid deaths — but masks could prevent many of them, WHO says
By Rob Picheta and Isabelle Jani-Friend, CNN Europe could suffer another 700,000 Covid-19 deaths by March, the World Health Organization (WHO) has…
Continue Reading Europe is facing 700,000 more Covid deaths — but masks could prevent many of them, WHO says
World Health Organization Europe director Dr. Hans Kluge says vaccines alone will not be enough to protect the continent from a new wave of…
Continue Reading Europe is facing 700,000 more Covid deaths — but masks could prevent many of them, WHO says
Intensive care units and morgues are filling up in Romania amid record levels of Covid-19 related deaths and one of Europe’s lowest vaccination…
Continue Reading NASA launches mission to crash into a near-Earth asteroid to try to change its motion in space
CA: NASA launches Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)…
Continue Reading NASA launches mission to crash into a near-Earth asteroid to try to change its motion in space
NASA launches rocket with goal of crashing it into an asteroid to see if it can change its…
Continue Reading NASA launches mission to crash into a near-Earth asteroid to try to change its motion in space
By Ashley Strickland, CNN A NASA spacecraft that will deliberately crash into an asteroid has successfully launched. The DART mission, or the Double…
Continue Reading Ancient human relative walked like a human but climbed like an ape, new fossils suggest
By Hannah Ryan, CNN An ancient human relative was able to walk the ground on two legs and use their upper limbs to climb and swing like apes,…
Continue Reading Astronauts celebrate record-breaking chile harvest in space with taco night
New NASA space telescope promises to have 100 times the power of Hubble, could answer if there’s other life in the…
Continue Reading NASA will launch mission to crash into a near-Earth asteroid to try to change its motion in space
By Ashley Strickland, CNN A NASA spacecraft that will deliberately crash into an asteroid is preparing to launch this week. The DART mission, or the…
Continue Reading Why we’re grateful for the tiny Ingenuity helicopter on Mars
By Ashley Strickland, CNN This year, we’ve watched the story of a little chopper unfold on another planet. And much like the joy brought by the…
Continue Reading Exploring mysterious worlds in ‘The Hunt for Planet B’
By Ashley Strickland, CNN If the universe is a seemingly endless desert, planet Earth is just a grain of sand. The mere thought can send you down an…
Continue Reading Army bars vaccine refusers from promotions and reenlistment as deadline approaches
By Oren Liebermann and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN With less than one month until the Army’s deadline to vaccinate its active-duty force, the…
Continue Reading If Planet B exists, what might it be like?
By Ashley Strickland, CNN Since the first exoplanets were discovered in the 1990s, many have wondered if we might find another Earth out there, a…
Continue Reading Webb telescope is about to take an unprecedented look at these intriguing exoplanets
By Ashley Strickland, CNN When the James Webb Space Telescope launches in December, astronomers around the world are expecting to find the…
Continue Reading Deforestation in the Amazon increased by 33% in first 10 months of 2021, analysis shows
By Camilo Rocha, Juliana Koch and CNN’s Jaide Garcia Deforestation in the Amazon increased by 33% in the first ten months of 2021, compared to…
Continue Reading You asked, we answered: NASA’s new telescope and the search for clues about our universe explained
The Hunt for Planet B” follows scientists as they build and plan for the launch of NASA’s Webb Telescope, the most powerful and complex space…
Continue Reading You asked, we answered: NASA’s new telescope and the search for clues about our universe explained
By Janelle Davis, CNN The most powerful telescope ever built is expected to launch on December 25. The James Webb Space Telescope will peer into the…
Continue Reading NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope launch pushed to Christmas Eve
The Webb Telescope, the most powerful and complex space telescope, must complete over 300 operations perfectly before it freezes in space. Don’t miss…
Continue Reading You asked, we answered: NASA’s new telescope and the search for clues about our universe explained
“The Hunt for Planet B” follows scientists as they build and plan for the launch of NASA’s Webb Telescope, the most powerful and complex space…
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