By Ashley Strickland, CNN There’s just something about penguins — and for the scientists and conservationists who work with Patagonia’s flightless marine birds, it’s usually love at first sight. Marine biologist Andrea Raya Rey decided on her career at age 10. As an animal lover who wanted to study the unique behaviors of creatures, she
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN There’s just something about penguins — and for the scientists and conservationists who work with Patagonia’s flightless marine birds, it’s usually love at first sight. Marine biologist Andrea Raya Rey decided on her career at age 10. As an animal lover who wanted to study the unique behaviors of creatures, she
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN There’s just something about penguins — and for the scientists and conservationists who work with Patagonia’s flightless marine birds, it’s usually love at first sight. Marine biologist Andrea Raya Rey decided on her career at age 10. As an animal lover who wanted to study the unique behaviors of creatures, she
Continue Reading By Kristen Rogers, CNN Over these last few days of July, two meteor showers will light up the night sky. The first, the Delta Aquariids meteor shower, is predicted to peak around 6 a.m. ET (10 a.m. UTC) Friday, according to EarthSky. Its radiant — the point from which meteor paths appear to come from
Continue Reading By Katie Hunt, CNN Several reports of shark bite injuries and a spate of sightings of the marine predators off the Northeast coast of the United States have rattled summer beachgoers. But are New York’s Long Island and Cape Cod, the peninsula of Massachusetts, where many of the recent suspected shark encounters have taken place,
Continue Reading By Katie Hunt, CNN Several reports of shark bite injuries and a spate of sightings of the marine predators off the Northeast coast of the United States have rattled summer beachgoers. But are New York’s Long Island and Cape Cod, the peninsula of Massachusetts, where many of the recent suspected shark encounters have taken place,
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN The first mission to return samples from another planet will touch down on Earth in 2033, according to NASA and European Space Agency officials. The Perseverance rover is currently collecting the samples on Mars. As Perseverance investigates the site of an ancient lake that existed billions of years ago, it’s collecting
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN Astronomers have spied a “black widow” lurking in space 3,000 light-years from Earth, and it’s a record-breaking cosmic object. Called a neutron star, the dense, collapsed remnants of a massive star weighs more than twice the mass of our sun, making it the heaviest neutron star known to date. The object
Continue Reading By Uliana Pavlova and Kristin Fisher, CNN Russia says it is planning to pull out of the International Space Station and end its decades-long partnership with NASA at the orbiting outpost, according to the newly appointed head of Russia’s space agency. Roscosmos chief Yury Borisov told Russian President Vladimir Putin that “the decision to leave
Continue Reading By Rachel Fadem, CNN The “murder hornet” is no more. At least, its name is gone. The Entomological Society of America and the Entomological Society of Canada have adopted a new name for the murder hornet, also known as the Asian giant hornet, saying “the usage of ‘Asian’ in the name of a pest insect
Continue Reading By Megan Marples, CNN It may not have been a mountain of pirate treasure, but archaeologists have discovered remnants of a centuries-old shipwreck that they believe inspired the movie “The Goonies.” A team of volunteers unearthed over 20 pieces of wood in a cave off the Oregon coast in June. It turned out to be
Continue Reading By Rachel Fadem, CNN Sharks have scared us a lot this summer, primarily for suspected attacks on humans. However, humans are a larger threat to sharks than sharks are to us. The 34th official Shark Week takes place from July 24 to July 30 on the Discovery Channel and aims to increase conversation and education
Continue Reading By Rachel Fadem, CNN Sharks have scared us a lot this summer, primarily for suspected attacks on humans. However, humans are a larger threat to sharks than sharks are to us. The 34th official Shark Week takes place from July 24 to July 30 on the Discovery Channel and aims to increase conversation and education
Continue Reading By Uliana Pavlova and Kristin Fisher, CNN Russia says it is planning to pull out of the International Space Station and end its decades-long partnership with NASA at the orbiting outpost, according to the newly appointed head of Russia’s space agency. Roscosmos chief Yury Borisov told Russian President Vladimir Putin that “the decision to leave
Continue Reading By Katie Hunt, CNN A provocative study published earlier this year proposed that the world’s best-known and perhaps best-loved dinosaur, Tyrannosaurus rex, was actually three separate species. Not so fast, says new research published Monday, which argues that T. rex shouldn’t be reclassified. Any variations in fossils merely reflect the fact that dinosaurs, like humans,
Continue Reading By 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 principle allegedly coined by the late Kelly Johnson, one of the world’s greatest aircraft designers, who once engineered Cold War spy planes. He believed a few tools
Continue Reading By 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 principle allegedly coined by the late Kelly Johnson, one of the world’s greatest aircraft designers, who once engineered Cold War spy planes. He believed a few tools
Continue Reading By Madeline Holcombe and Jalen Beckford, CNN One of the most popular and recognizable insects is at risk of extinction, according to a global organization focused on conservation and sustainability. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has added the migratory monarch butterfly to its Red List of Threatened Species as endangered, the group said
Continue Reading Story 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 China into late August. In addition to temperatures spiking above 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit), wildfires are raging across southern Europe with evacuations in towns in Italy and Greece. The
Continue Reading By 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 rover’s front left hazard avoidance camera took a photo of the light-colored object on July 12 that some people likened to spaghetti. Officials at the space agency confirmed that they
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