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Humans give more viruses to animals than they give us, study finds
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some of the deadliest diseases to stalk humankind have come from pathogens that jumped from animals to people. The virus that causes AIDS, for example, crossed ov...
Mar 26, 2024
Send robots into space rather than people, says Britain's Astronomer Royal
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Astronomer Royal Martin Rees said sending people into space when robots could do the job just as effectively was a waste of public money, and space exploration should be l...
Mar 26, 2024
Where did Homo sapiens go after leaving Africa? New study has an answer
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Our species emerged in Africa more than 300,000 years ago, with a migration out of the continent 60,000 to 70,000 years ago heralding the start of the global spre...
Mar 25, 2024
Soyuz craft launches en route to International Space Station, 2 days after glitch
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying a Russian, a Belarusian and an American en route to the International Space Station (ISS) was launched on Saturday from the Baikonur cosmodrome i...
Mar 23, 2024
Scientists identify Milky Way's ancient building blocks Shakti and Shiva
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers have identified two ancient streams of stars - named after the Hindu deities Shakti and Shiva - that appear to be among the Milky Way's earliest build...
Mar 22, 2024
Soyuz spacecraft to launch Saturday, reach space station Monday, officials say
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A problem that forced the last-minute cancellation of a crew launch to the International Space Station has been successfully resolved and it will now take off on Saturday and dock w...
Mar 22, 2024
Thai scientists breed coral in labs to restore degraded reefs
By Napat Wesshasartar OFF MAN NAI ISLAND, Thailand (Reuters) - On a starry night, four Thai marine biologists scuba dived through shallow waters off an island in the country's south as billions of pin...
Mar 21, 2024
Creature named for Kermit the Frog offers clues on amphibian evolution
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - There definitely were no muppets during the Permian Period, but there was a Kermit - or at least a forerunner of modern amphibians that has been named after the c...
Mar 21, 2024
Launch of Russian Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft has been cancelled -live stream
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The launch of a Russian Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft, which was meant to carry Russian and Belarusian cosmonauts and an American astronaut to the ISS, has been cancelled, according to a l...
Mar 21, 2024
Fossil of 16-million-year-old river dolphin found in Peru
(Reuters) - Scientists on Wednesday unveiled a 16 million-year-old fossil skull unearthed in Peru of a river dolphin that once swam in waters that are now the Amazon, and whose closest living relative...
Mar 20, 2024
