Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) Science News (Master Feed)
SpaceX to launch sixth Starship test from Texas, with Trump attending
By Joey Roulette (Reuters) - Elon Musk's SpaceX is set on Tuesday to launch the sixth test of its giant Starship rocket from Texas, eyeing improvements in its hypersonic reentry into Earth's atmospher...
Nov 19, 2024
Trump plans to watch SpaceX launch in Texas, source says
By Steve Holland and Joey Roulette WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is heading to Texas on Tuesday to attend a SpaceX rocket launch in person in a sign of his clo...
Nov 19, 2024
Dawn Aerospace rocket-powered aircraft successfully completes supersonic flight
By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Dawn Aerospace's rocket-powered aircraft successfully completed its first supersonic flight, the company said in a statement on Tuesday, as it moves forward with...
Nov 18, 2024
Trump may be planning to attend SpaceX launch in Texas
By Steve Holland and Joey Roulette WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump may be planning to attend a SpaceX rocket launch in person in Texas on Tuesday, another sign of his...
Nov 18, 2024
Fossil from Germany unlocks history of ancient flying reptiles
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - Aloft over the landscape of Bavaria some 147 million years ago was a pterosaur - an ancient flying reptile - with a wing span of about 7 feet (2 meters), a bony crest on fro...
Nov 18, 2024
Samples obtained by Chinese spacecraft show moon's ancient volcanism
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - China's Chang'e-6 robotic spacecraft in June made history by retrieving the first surface samples from the far side of the moon, which perpetually faces away from Earth. Tha...
Nov 15, 2024
The 'morphing' wheel from South Korea that may transform lives and robots
By Hyun Young Yi, Daewoung Kim and Jack Kim DAEJEON, South Korea (Reuters) - Imagine a wheelchair equipped with wheels flexible enough to navigate all manner of obstacles from kerbs to humps and even ...
Nov 13, 2024
'One-of-a-kind' skull fossil from Brazil reveals bird brain evolution
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - The brains of today's birds facilitate a level of cognitive prowess and behavioral complexity rivaled only by mammals. But how the avian brain evolved over many millions of ...
Nov 13, 2024
Researchers document huge drop in African elephants in a half century
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - African elephants are Earth's largest land animals, remarkable mammals that are very intelligent and highly social. They also are in peril. Fresh evidence of this comes in a...
Nov 11, 2024
Scientists uncover a magnetic misunderstanding about Uranus
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope. This frigid planet, our solar system...
Nov 11, 2024
