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South Africa's health minister announced Thursday the discovery of a new coronavirus variant that appears to be spreading rapidly in parts of the country.

A new Covid-19 variant could show immune evasion and enhanced transmissibility, South African scientists warn

November 25, 2021 6:02 PM CNN Newsource

By David McKenzie and Ghazi Balkiz, CNN South Africa’s health minister announced Thursday the discovery of a new coronavirus variant that appears to be spreading rapidly in parts of the country. “Initially it looked like some cluster outbreaks, but from yesterday, the indication came from our scientists from the Network of Genomic Surveillance that they

Climate protestors gather for the Global Day of Action for Climate Justice march on November 6

Politicians are failing to deliver climate justice. Lawyers and scientists could do it in court

November 25, 2021 5:01 AM CNN Newsource

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 video address by the foreign minister of Tuvalu, speaking in a suit while knee-deep in tropical waters, is a hard one to forget. It was simple but strong message — while

This is how astronauts celebrate Thanksgiving in space

November 25, 2021 2:39 AM CNN Newsource

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The holidays still happen in space, they just look a little bit different. But the sentiments are the same. “I’m going to do whatever I can to show how thankful I am for my crewmates,” said NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei in a NASA video shared from the International Space Station

This is how astronauts celebrate Thanksgiving in space

November 25, 2021 2:39 AM CNN

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The holidays still happen in space, they just look a little bit different. But the sentiments are the same. “I’m going to do whatever I can to show how thankful I am for my crewmates,” said NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei in a NASA video shared from the International Space Station

The crew had to work around wet clay to carefully excavate the fossil.

Missouri dig site is home to at least 4 rare dinosaurs, and there could be more

November 24, 2021 6:23 PM CNN Newsource

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 digging a well. In October, nearly 60 years later, another set of fossils from the same species were uncovered about 50 feet (15 meters) away. After comparing and matching the tail

Europe is facing 700,000 more Covid deaths — but masks could prevent many of them, WHO says

November 24, 2021 8:01 AM CNN Newsource

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 said. It’s the latest in a series of dire warnings for the region, which is in the grip of a devastating fourth wave of cases that has plunged several countries back into lockdown.

Europe is facing 700,000 more Covid deaths — but masks could prevent many of them, WHO says

November 24, 2021 8:01 AM CNN

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 said. It’s the latest in a series of dire warnings for the region, which is in the grip of a devastating fourth wave of cases that has plunged several countries back into lockdown.

Europe is facing 700,000 more Covid deaths — but masks could prevent many of them, WHO says

November 24, 2021 8:01 AM CNN

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 said. It’s the latest in a series of dire warnings for the region, which is in the grip of a devastating fourth wave of cases that has plunged several countries back into lockdown.

This is an illustration of NASA's DART spacecraft and the Italian Space Agency's LICIACube prior to impact at the Didymos system.

NASA launches mission to crash into a near-Earth asteroid to try to change its motion in space

November 24, 2021 3:48 AM CNN

By Ashley Strickland, CNN A NASA spacecraft that will deliberately crash into an asteroid has successfully launched. The DART mission, or the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, lifted off at 10:21 p.m. PT on November 23 (1:21 a.m. ET November 24) aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Live coverage

NASA launches mission to crash into a near-Earth asteroid to try to change its motion in space

November 24, 2021 3:48 AM CNN

By Ashley Strickland, CNN A NASA spacecraft that will deliberately crash into an asteroid has successfully launched. The DART mission, or the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, lifted off at 10:21 p.m. PT on November 23 (1:21 a.m. ET November 24) aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Live coverage

NASA launches mission to crash into a near-Earth asteroid to try to change its motion in space

November 24, 2021 12:22 AM CNN Newsource

By Ashley Strickland, CNN A NASA spacecraft that will deliberately crash into an asteroid has successfully launched. The DART mission, or the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, lifted off at 10:21 p.m. PT on November 23 (1:21 a.m. ET November 24) aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Live coverage

Australopithecus sediba was a transitional form of ancient human relative

Ancient human relative walked like a human but climbed like an ape, new fossils suggest

November 23, 2021 12:29 PM CNN Newsource

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, according to a new study of 2 million-year-old vertebrae fossils. An international team of scientists from New York University, the University of the Witwatersrand and 15 other

NASA astronaut Megan McArthur is seen with a taco made using fajita beef

Astronauts celebrate record-breaking chile harvest in space with taco night

November 23, 2021 3:31 AM CNN

By Ashley Strickland, CNN While we were eating Thanksgiving leftovers and shopping sales on Black Friday, astronauts on the International Space Station had a special taco night to celebrate their second successful chile pepper harvest. As with the first historic chile pepper picking on October 29, NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei had the honor of

NASA will launch mission to crash into a near-Earth asteroid to try to change its motion in space

November 23, 2021 2:43 AM CNN Newsource

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 Double Asteroid Redirection Test, will lift off at 10:20 p.m. PT (1:20 a.m. ET) on November 23 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

In this concept illustration provided by NASA

Why we’re grateful for the tiny Ingenuity helicopter on Mars

November 22, 2021 3:48 AM CNN Newsource

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 successful landing of the Perseverance rover on Mars in February, the journey of its Ingenuity helicopter sidekick is just what we needed in 2021. From millions of miles away,

Artist conception of the James Webb Space Telescope.

Exploring mysterious worlds in ‘The Hunt for Planet B’

November 20, 2021 12:49 PM CNN Newsource

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 existential rabbit hole. But I like to look at the universe and consider all of the possibilities just awaiting discovery. Astronomers have yet to find a solar

If Planet B exists, what might it be like?

November 19, 2021 10:34 AM CNN Newsource

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 place called Planet B. Natalie Batalha, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has watched the field of exoplanet science grow and change since those

The James Webb Space Telescope will be the premier space observatory of the next decade when it launches.

Webb telescope is about to take an unprecedented look at these intriguing exoplanets

November 18, 2021 4:00 PM CNN Newsource

By Ashley Strickland, CNN When the James Webb Space Telescope launches in December, astronomers around the world are expecting to find the unexpected, said Sara Seager, astrophysicist and planetary scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The space observatory will be able to look into the distant universe as well as observe objects in our

Officials from Para State in northern Brazil inspect a deforested area in the Amazon in September.

Deforestation in the Amazon increased by 33% in first 10 months of 2021, analysis shows

November 18, 2021 12:12 PM CNN Newsource

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 the first ten months of 2020, a new analysis shows. The analysis published Wednesday by the Institute for Man and the Environment of the Amazon (Imazon), an independent Brazilian research

Teams are working on "a communication issue between the observatory and the launch vehicle system

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope launch pushed to Christmas Eve

November 18, 2021 4:24 AM CNN

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The highly anticipated launch of the James Webb Space Telescope is facing yet another delay before it can lift off the launchpad. Heralded to be the premier space science observatory of the next decade, the telescope is now expected to launch on December 24 from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. Teams

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