Mar 17, 2025 Today on CNN 10, we get an update on severe weather that caused widespread damage across large parts of the US over the weekend. We also find out how artificial intelligence is being used to decipher ancient scrolls over 2,000 years old. Then we'll check on a spacecraft ...
"Much has been said and written on the utility of newspapers; but one principal advantage which might be derived from these publications has been neglected; we mean that of reading them in schools." The Portland Eastern Herald (June 8, 1795) "News is history in its first and best form, ...
Japanese swordsmiths have been given an unusual challenge - fashion impactors of tamahagane, the traditional metal made from iron sand and charcoal that is used in Japanese swords, for use in space probes. ...the team – including Genrokuro Matsunaga, a 70-year-old swordsmith and Takeo ...
An instrument onboard NOAA 21 (OMPS LP) is able to detect NLCs (also known as "polar mesospheric clouds" or PMCs). In the daily map, above, each dot is a detected cloud. As the season progresses, these dots will multiply in number and shift in hue from blue to red as the brightne...
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2. CHAT: In pairs / groups, talk about these topics or words from the article. What will the article say about them? What can you say about these words and your life? scientists / asteroids / good news / space / rock / hazardous / planet / prediction / radar / precise / informatio...
Comets and asteroids are small planets, ranging in size from baseball-sized meteors to one-third the size of the moon. They are the rocky and icy bodies left over from the formation of the solar system. Originally, the population was much larger. With time, however, most of these bodies ...
"In the same way that colonialists and explorers exploited the resources of the New World about 400 years ago, today’s pioneering asteroid miners are reaching out to exploit riches in space."
CNN 5 Things Sat, Apr 12 showcast Explaining global news to a global audience: This is the mission of CNN 10, a 10-minute educational news show that appears as a daily digital video and audio podcast. CNN 10 serves a growing audience interested in compact on-demand news broadcasts ideal...
In 1994, astronomers watched in awe as the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into the planet Jupiter, creating massive fireballs exploding with the force of six million megatons of TNT—equivalent to 600 times the world's nuclear arsenal.