Focusing on gratitude has helped me through this year. And in the spirit of Thanksgiving, I wanted to say that I'm so thankful for all of you in this feel-good edition of Wonder Theory.Thank you for joining us on our…
As fears mount over the newly identified coronavirus variant Omicron, governments around the world are scrambling to protect their citizens from a potential outbreak.The new mutation, which is potentially more transmissible, was first discovered in South Africa and has since…
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The discovery of a new and potentially more transmissible coronavirus variant by South African health authorities has sparked a forceful reaction across the world with a number of countries banning travelers from several southern African countries.The newly identified variant, currently…
Atlanta. Orlando. Las Vegas. Newtown. Parkland. San Bernardino.Ubiquitous gun violence in the United States has left few places unscathed over the decades. Still, many Americans hold their right to bear arms, enshrined in the US Constitution, as sacrosanct. But critics…
Monterey Park. Atlanta. Orlando. Las Vegas. Newtown. Parkland. San Bernardino. Uvalde.Ubiquitous gun violence in the United States has left few places unscathed over the decades. Still, many Americans hold their right to bear arms, enshrined in the US Constitution, as…
The first fossil evidence of a pine cone sprouting seeds has been preserved in 40 million-year-old amber.Seed germination typically occurs in the ground after a seed has fallen, but several embryonic stems were captured emerging from the ancient pine cone…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The most powerful telescope ever built is expected to launch on December 25. The James Webb Space Telescope will peer into the atmospheres of exoplanets, some of which are potentially habitable, and look deeper into the universe than we've ever…
