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See the “Worm” supermoon glow in the March sky this Sunday. The moon will be fullest at 2:48 p.m. ET on Sunday afternoon, according to NASA. This will be the year’s first supermoon, meaning the moon is slightly closer to Earth and therefore appears bigger and brighter in the sky. The Worm supermoon is the
Continue ReadingTo play during the pandemic, Major League Baseball has stepped up to the plate. The league is using coronavirus tests in a new way that allows them to determine not only if a player has Covid-19 but also if a variant of the virus caused the player’s infection. The MLB is one of few professional
Continue ReadingTwo Confederate statues that sparked fiery protests and the fatal White nationalist rally in 2017 may soon come down in Charlottesville, Virginia. After years of thwarted attempts, Charlottesville can remove statues of Robert E. Lee and General “Stonewall” Jackson, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled Thursday. Efforts to remove both statues preceded the Unite the Right
Continue ReadingWhen astronaut Scott Kelly spent nearly a year in space, his heart shrank despite the fact that he worked out six days a week over his 340-day stay, according to a new study. Surprisingly, researchers observed the same change in Benoît Lecomte after he completed his 159-day swim across the Pacific Ocean in 2018. The
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story SOUTH NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — A South Nashville market is once again cleaning up after flood waters rushed in. This happened to Botan Market in 2010 and then again this past weekend. They had to throw out at least $200,000 worth of food. “It has been a very
Continue ReadingComing soon: Watch out for the upcoming launch of Wonder Theory, the first-ever CNN space and science newsletter. Subscribe here and be among the first to receive the week’s most fascinating stories, delivered straight to your inbox every Saturday morning. Welcome to Wonder Theory, your weekly space and science digest. The golden age of science
Continue ReadingIn the dead calm of a winter’s night on a remote Canadian stretch of the Alaska Highway — without another soul in sight — the sound of something sizzling echoed down the MacDonald Valley, where Ryan Dickie had driven to photograph the northern lights. It was the evening after a particularly active display of the
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story SAGINAW, Michigan (WNEM) — Covenant HealthCare is reinstating visitor restrictions starting April 1. The changes come, as the hospital says, during the community’s increase in positivity rates and a moderate increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations. “While 70 percent of our workforce has been vaccinated, and today Covenant is hosting
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Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WLS) — Baseball returns to Wrigley Field Thursday as the Chicago Cubs take on the Pittsburgh Pirates and unlike last year, fans are back in the stadium to cheer on the home team. The Cubs are ready to begin a new year, hoping players like Kris Bryant
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The 19-year-old cashier who suspected George Floyd had handed him a counterfeit $20 bill said Wednesday he still feels guilt for Floyd’s death under the knee of a former Minneapolis police officer. Christopher Martin took the stand on the third day of the criminal trial of Derek Chauvin, echoing other witnesses who expressed helplessness and
Continue ReadingThe astronauts on the International Space Station have already conducted five spacewalks so far this year — and now they have relocated a spacecraft outside of the orbiting laboratory. Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, along with NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, flew the Soyuz MS-17 capsule from its current port to another one on
Continue ReadingHumanity’s first Wright Brothers moment on another planet will happen in April. The Ingenuity Mars helicopter will attempt the first powered flight on Mars no earlier than April 8, according to NASA. It’s fitting that the mission, an experimental companion to the Perseverance rover, is carrying a piece of history. A postage stamp-size piece of
Continue ReadingA British contractor missing since Islamist militants first attacked the town of Palma in northern Mozambique just over a week ago is presumed to have died, his family said Thursday. Dozens of people were killed and hundreds are still unaccounted for following the days-long attack by the ISIS-affiliated group. Relatives of contractor Philip Mawer said
Continue ReadingResidents of one Chicago suburb are divided over how to rechristen a school named for a founding father who enslaved hundreds of Black people. A majority of residents in Waukegan say they don’t want the district’s Thomas Jefferson Middle School to keep its name. But they haven’t yet been able to agree on someone else
Continue ReadingGeorgia’s Republican-controlled House on Wednesday voted to revoke a major tax break for Delta Air Lines as punishment for its CEO’s public criticism of the state’s controversial new law clamping down on ballot access. The state Senate did not take up the measure before lawmakers adjourned for the year, rendering it dead for this year
Continue ReadingCoca-Cola CEO James Quincey is escalating his criticism against recently passed voting laws in Georgia, saying he wants to be “crystal clear and state unambiguously that we are disappointed” in the legislation. In a new statement released Thursday, Quincey said that Coke, which is headquartered in Atlanta, has “long championed efforts to make it easier
Continue ReadingA major fault-line within the Republican coalition over transgender student athletes has opened up, and one potential White House hopeful, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, has found herself caught in the middle. After saying earlier this month she was “excited” to sign a bill preventing transgender students from competing in same-gender sports, Noem effectively killed
Continue ReadingFor those on a Mediterranean cruise, it’s one of the most memorable sights: the city of Venice unpeeling beneath the boat, the centuries-old buildings and bell towers dwarfed by the ship, giving onlookers a spectacular bird’s eye view. But for many on the shore, cruise ships in Venice have come to symbolize the excesses of
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George Floyd’s girlfriend testified in Derek Chauvin’s criminal trial Thursday that he was a kind, caring, athletic man who struggled with opioid addiction. Courteney Batya Ross, 45, said she met Floyd in August 2017 when he worked as a security guard at the Salvation Army. In emotional testimony, she said they liked exploring the local
Continue ReadingWhen the Ingenuity helicopter takes flight this month, it will be a Wright brothers moment on Mars. This first powered, controlled flight on another planet has been years in the making — and it has roots in the first such flight on Earth. It has been 117 years since Orville Wright took flight in Flyer
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