Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig stevenspanglerscience.com. NS
Answer
stevenspanglerscience.com. 5 NS ns-1006.awsdns-61.net.
stevenspanglerscience.com. 5 NS ns-1197.awsdns-21.org.
stevenspanglerscience.com. 5 NS ns-520.awsdns-01.net.
stevenspanglerscience.com. 5 NS ns-597.awsdns-10.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0