Meet an ‘extreme’ plant that thrives and grows faster under stress
By Ashley Strickland, CNN Not all plants wither when faced with harsh conditions. Extremophyte plants not only survive in dry, salty or cold places,…
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China is obsessed with disinfection against Covid. But is it causing more harm than good?
CNN, CNNBUSINESS By Simone McCarthy Hazmat suit-clad workers spraying clouds of disinfectant over city streets, building fronts, park benches and…
Continue Reading China is obsessed with disinfection against Covid. But is it causing more harm than good?
By Simone McCarthy Hazmat suit-clad workers spraying clouds of disinfectant over city streets, building fronts, park benches and even parcels have…
Continue Reading India and Pakistan heatwave is ‘testing the limits of human survivability,’ expert says
By Rhea Mogul, Esha Mitra, Manveena Suri and Sophia Saifi, CNN Temperatures in parts of India and Pakistan have reached record levels, putting the…
Continue Reading These young Muslim Americans hit significant turning points in their lives this Ramadan. Here’s how they observed the holy month
By Aya Elamroussi, CNN Six months after Mussab Ali started his first year of Harvard Law School, he was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and underwent…
Continue Reading Mariupol officials say evacuation of civilians from besieged city is paused until Monday
By Jack Bantock, Andrew Carey, Tim Lister, Camille Knight, Mariya Knight and Niamh Kennedy, CNN The evacuation of civilians from the besieged…
Continue Reading An Alabama inmate and a corrections officer are missing. Here’s what we know
By Theresa Waldrop, Jamiel Lynch and Rebekah Riess, CNN Authorities in Alabama are searching for a corrections officer and an inmate who is charged…
Continue Reading Russians plunder $5M farm vehicles from Ukraine — to find they’ve been remotely disabled
By Olexsandr Fylyppov and Tim Lister, CNN Russian troops in the occupied city of Melitopol have stolen all the equipment from a farm equipment…
Continue Reading READ: Biden’s full White House Correspondents’ Dinner remarks
CNN By CNN staff President Joe Biden spoke Saturday at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner, marking his first appearance at the widely…
Continue Reading Why this group is working to preserve heirloom collard greens
By Leah Asmelash, CNN Collard greens at the grocery store tend to be monotonous, making up rows and rows of wide leafy bundles. But in reality, there…
Continue Reading At least 1 dead and 5 injured after gunfire breaks out at a festival in Jackson, Mississippi
By Michelle Watson, CNN Authorities canceled the final day of the Mississippi Mudbug Festival after gunfire erupted at the festival in Jackson…
Continue Reading Melissa Lucio was sentenced to death. Courts will now look at these 4 claims to decide if she gets a new trial
By Dakin Andone, CNN Fourteen years after she was sent to Texas’ death row, Melissa’s Lucio will finally get the chance to have new…
Continue Reading Beijing shuts Universal Studios, bans restaurant dining in major escalation of Covid restrictions
By Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing Bureau Beijing has banned all restaurant dining, shut down Universal Studios and ordered residents to provide…
Continue Reading Mummified bird could unlock new ways to experience museum exhibits
By Maxime Tamsett, CNN It all started with a report of two mummies in a university closet. Carol Anne Barsody, a graduate student in archaeology at…
Continue Reading Country music legend Naomi Judd, one half of The Judds, dies age 76
By Andy Rose, CNN Country music legend Naomi Judd — one half of the duo The Judds — has died, her daughter Ashley Judd announced…
Continue Reading Angelina Jolie visits residents at boarding school and medical institution in Ukraine
By Hande Atay Alam and Radina Gigova, CNN Actress and activist Angelina Jolie paid a surprise visit to a boarding school and medical institution in…
Continue Reading Don’t look up: 2022’s first solar eclipse will appear in the southern hemisphere today
By Zoe Sottile, CNN Today, people in some parts of southern South America, Antarctica, and the Pacific and Southern Oceans will be able to watch the…
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CNN’s Erin McLaughlin looks at the science behind a solar eclipse, one of the galaxy’s most spectacular…
Continue Reading US military delivers new birthday cake to Italian woman, 77 years after American soldiers stole the original
American soldiers took a 13-year-old’s birthday cake off of a window sill while celebrating a victory in Vicenza, Italy during World War II. 77 years…
Continue Reading Lake Powell officials face an impossible choice in the West’s megadrought: Water or electricity
By René Marsh, CNN Lake Powell, the country’s second-largest reservoir, is drying up. The situation is critical: if water levels at the lake…
Continue Reading Emperor penguins have an unlikely robot ally as they face threats at the edge of the world
By Ashley Strickland, CNN We all need room to roam. It’s instinctual to crave the freedom of having our own space to thrive. The same is true…
Continue Reading UK Conservative politician resigns after admitting watching porn in Parliament
By Martin Goillandeau and Luke McGee, CNN A Member of Parliament in British Prime Minister Boris Johnson‘s Conservative Party, Neil Parish,…
Continue Reading Elon Musk wants end-to-end encryption for Twitter DMs. It may not be that simple
By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Just two days after he announced he would buy Twitter, Elon Musk sent out a deluge of tweets about his plans for the…
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Planet-warming emissions from cow burps have been seen from space
By Zoe Sottile, CNN Methane emissions burped up by cows have been observed from space. The emissions were detected by environmental data company…
Continue Reading How Covid helped Olive Garden and Chipotle dominate the restaurant business
By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business Restaurants of all sizes have had a difficult few years — but chains are coming out on top. Several new…
Continue Reading Ottawa police arrest at least 8 during Rolling Thunder bike rally weekend
By Jason Hanna, Michelle Watson and Andi Babineau, CNN Ottawa police said they arrested at least one person in the downtown area Saturday on the…
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How AI predicts what you’ll buy
Wicked Reports curated a list of five major ways artificial intelligence predicts what you’ll buy by mining extensive consumer data like location,…
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How does unlimited PTO really play out?
Unlimited paid time off has advantages—and disadvantages—going for it. Timetastic compiled a list of six facts and statistics about unlimited…
Continue Reading They fled Ukraine to protect their children. Now these mothers are returning home
By Eliza Mackintosh and Oleksandra Ochman, CNN Photographs by Yurko Dyachyshyn for CNN Lviv, Ukraine — At the train station in Lviv, on the…
Continue Reading Flying into Beijing is tougher than ever as China ramps up its zero-Covid measures
By Selina Wang, CNN Beijing is partially locking down to control a Covid outbreak that could completely shutter the Chinese capital. But just as the…
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