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Argentina sequences leafhopper genome to battle crop-destroying insect
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - An Argentine scientific institute has cracked the genome of the leafhopper, the insect which carries the bacteria responsible for wiping out vast swathes of the South American...
Thomson Reuters Jun 25, 2024
RTX's Collins in talks to drop ISS spacesuit contract with NASA, sources say
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - RTX Corp subsidiary Collins Aerospace is in talks with NASA to back out of its contract to build new spacesuits for astronauts on the International Space Statio...
Thomson Reuters Jun 25, 2024
Protecting 1.2% of Earth would prevent most extinctions, study says
By Jake Spring SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Setting aside an additional 1.2% of the world's land as nature preserves would prevent the majority of predicted plant and animal extinctions and cost about $263 b...
Thomson Reuters Jun 25, 2024
China's Chang'e-6 moon probe lands back on Earth
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Chang'e-6 lunar probe landed on Tuesday in the northern Chinese region of Inner Mongolia, making the country the first to bring back samples from the moon's far side. The r...
Thomson Reuters Jun 25, 2024
Sino-French satellite launched into orbit, China's CCTV says
SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) - A satellite developed by China and France, the most powerful yet for studying the farthest explosion of stars, was launched into orbit on Saturday, Chinese state broadcast...
Thomson Reuters Jun 22, 2024
Boeing's Starliner return to Earth delayed indefinitely
(Reuters) - NASA and Boeing indefinitely postponed the Starliner spacecraft's return from the International Space Station to Earth, NASA said on Friday. (Reporting by Mrinmay Dey and Joey Roulette; Ed...
Thomson Reuters Jun 21, 2024
Ancient pig-like animal shows beginnings of mammalian brain evolution
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - More than 250 million years ago, Scotland was not veiled in mist and rain, as it often is today, but rather a desert blanketed in sand dunes. One of the denizens of this cha...
Thomson Reuters Jun 21, 2024
Antiquities returning to Mexico include Mayan vase sold for $4 in US store
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The Mexican government will welcome back 20 cultural artifacts that date to the country's storied ancient past, all found in the United States including a Mayan vase over 1,000...
Thomson Reuters Jun 20, 2024
Fossils of ancient crocodile-like reptile found in Brazil
BRASILIA (Reuters) - A Brazilian scientist has identified fossils of a small crocodile-like reptile that lived during the Triassic Period several million years before the first dinosaurs. The fossils ...
Thomson Reuters Jun 20, 2024
Dinosaur from Montana had horns like Norse god Loki's blades
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 78 million years ago in what was then a subtropical coastal plain - now the badlands of northern Montana - lived a four-legged plant-eating dinosaur built a...
Thomson Reuters Jun 20, 2024
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