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New Fremont, California Pedestrian Accident Study
Fremont, a city known for its amusing history and beautiful vistas, has many walkable neighborhoods. Nevertheless, pedestrians in the city are still at risk of accidents, especially when crossing busy intersections, because of careless drivers. A recent study takes a...
Importance of space exploration according to ‘The Eureka Manifesto’
The human species has always had an insatiable need to explore the unknown and learn more about the undiscovered. We have always stimulated our ambition by pushing our limits in the pursuit of knowledge and working hard to gain a better grasp of our environment and...
Is Living on Mars a Future Possibility?
Scientists have long been exploring the possibility of life on other planets and the ability of humans to live there one day too. There may come a time when earth is uninhabitable in many ways and having a backup planet to go to would be beneficial. In particular,...
Can Dogs Sense PTSD?
It’s safe to say that dogs are pretty incredible. According to a survey done by the American Veterinary Medical Association, there were around seventy-seven million dogs in American households at the end of 2016. To quote a cliché, dogs are “man’s best friend” and for...
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Look up to the sky for the Lyrid meteor shower and the full pink moon
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more.The total solar eclipse has come and gone, but sky-gazers have reason to keep looking up — a meteor shower will peak this...
Poll: Big majority of Americans favor taking steps to reduce climate change
Record heat, hurricanes, wildfires all have been making news in recent years. And while not everyone agrees events like these are the direct result of climate change, they do connect to peoples' opinions about it: a big majority of Americans feel the U.S. needs to...
‘Devil Comet’ 12P/Pons-Brooks reaches peak brightness tonight. Here’s how to see it
The "Devil Comet" will reach peak brightness this weekend as it passes near the sun.The during its closest approach. This means Comet 12P will be most visible from Earth a few nights before and after reaching perihelion, when it's at its brightest and viewers might...
Can this ocean-based carbon plant help save the world? Some scientists are raising red flags
Editor’s Note: CNN Films ”Blue Carbon: Nature’s Hidden Power” takes viewers from the mangroves of Vietnam to the salt marshes of France to investigate a powerful new ally in the battle to slow climate change. It premieres at 9 p.m. ET/PT Sunday, April 21.On a slice of...
11-year-old’s fossil discovery reveals ancient creature larger than a blue whale
Editor’s Note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, to receive in your inbox the next edition of Wonder Theory, brought to you by CNN Space and Science writers Ashley Strickland and Katie Hunt. They find...
Tall flowers, dead shrubs, ephemeral lake: Death Valley has become a picture of climate whiplash
In California’s boom-and-bust climate, Death Valley has offered some of the strangest scenes over the past few years.Some of the area’s perennial creosote bushes died back during a severe drought that hampered the region through 2022. Then torrential downpours — from...
Pakistani province issues flood alert and warns of heavy loss of life due to glacial melting
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani province has issued a flood alert due to glacial melting and warned of heavy loss of life, officials said Saturday.The country has witnessed days of extreme weather, killing scores of people and destroying property and farmland....
NASA satellite’s ‘shocking’ space junk near-miss was even closer than thought
Humanity dodged an orbital bullet recently by an even slimmer margin than we thought.In the wee hours of Feb. 28, the dead Russian spy satellite Cosmos 2221 and NASA's TIMED craft, which has been studying Earth's atmosphere since 2001, made an uncomfortably close pass...
NASA’s Juno probe captures amazing views of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io (video)
The four biggest moons of Jupiter aren't just blurry smudges in Galileo's telescope anymore.The Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei discovered Ganymede, Callisto, Europa and Io back in 1610, which explains why they're called the Galilean moons. We've learned a lot...
NASA’s Artemis 3 astronauts will put a moonquake detector on lunar surface
The Lunar Environment Monitoring Station (LEMS) is one of the first three potential payloads NASA selected for the Artemis 3 mission, which will land humans on the moon in 2026 for the first time in more than 50 years.The compact, autonomous seismometer is designed to...
USDA confirms cow-to-cow transmission a factor in bird flu spread
By Tom PolansekCHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture said this week that cow-to-cow transmission is a factor in the spread of bird flu in dairy herds, but it still does not know exactly how the virus is being moved around.Farmers and veterinarians...
Scientists spot ‘glory effect’ on a world beyond our solar system for the first time
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more.Astronomers have spotted what they believe to be a rainbow-like phenomenon occurring on a planet outside our solar system...