When you go walking on islands like São Miguel, you actually go back in time: Joao Santos I wandered through a labyrinth of black basalt, my fingertips dragging along walls laced with electric green lichen, boots crunching over rubble as dark as coal. The landscape on Pico, one of nine islands that make up the … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. Within a few weeks they will dig their way out of the underground, red eyes twinkling and a deafening song filling the air. It will be a convergence of creatures the likes of which have … Read more
Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s science newsletter Wonder Theory. To receive it in your inbox, Register for free here. As humans, we love to ‘dare mighty things’. That’s the motto of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, which borrows from a quote from Theodore Roosevelt. As a species born … Read more
Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s science newsletter Wonder Theory. To receive it in your inbox, Register for free here. As humans, we love to ‘dare mighty things’. That’s the motto of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, which borrows from a quote from Theodore Roosevelt. As a species born … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. Within a few months they will claw their way out of the underground, red eyes twinkling and a deafening song filling the air. It will be a convergence of creatures the likes of which have … Read more