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Amazon, SpaceX snag NASA space communications contracts
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Amazon's satellite venture, SpaceX's Starlink network and other satellite firms on Wednesday won a combined $278.5 million in contracts from NASA to demonstrate...
Apr 20, 2022
Surprised astronomers find new type of star explosion – a micronova
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers have detected a previously unknown type of stellar explosion called a micronova involving thermonuclear blasts at the polar regions of a type of burne...
Apr 20, 2022
Scientists prepare CERN collider restart in hunt for “dark matter”
By Cecile Mantovani PREVESSIN, France (Reuters) - Scientists at Europe's physics research centre will this week fire up the 27 kilometer-long Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the machine that found the Hi...
Apr 20, 2022
Australian scientists to power Tesla on 15,000-km trip with printed solar panels
By Stefica Nicol Bikes GOSFORTH, Australia (Reuters) - Scientists in Australia are testing printed solar panels they will use to power a Tesla on a 15,100-km (9,400-mile) journey beginning in Septembe...
Apr 19, 2022
Europa’s similarity to Greenland hints that Jupiter moon could harbor life
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The uncanny resemblance between features on Europa's frozen surface and a landform in Greenland that sits atop a sizable pocket of water are providing intriguing ...
Apr 19, 2022
Omicron sub-variant BA.2 makes up nearly 75% of COVID variants in U.S. – CDC
(Reuters) - The BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron is estimated to make up 74.4% of the coronavirus variants in the United States as of April 16, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sai...
Apr 19, 2022
Japan researchers develop electric chopsticks to enhance salty taste
By Rikako Murayama and Akiko Okamoto TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese researchers have developed computerised chopsticks that enhance salty tastes, potentially helping those who need to reduce sodium in the...
Apr 18, 2022
Omicron infection induces limited immune response in unvaccinated; COVID hospital deaths rise on weekends
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that has yet to be certified...
Apr 18, 2022
Chinese astronauts leave space station module – CCTV
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Three Chinese astronauts left a space station module on Saturday on a spacecraft bound for Earth, Chinese state television reported on Saturday, completing the fifth of 11 mission...
Apr 15, 2022
Earliest evidence of Maya calendar found inside Guatemalan pyramid
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A glyph representing a day called "7 Deer" on mural fragments dating from the third century BC found inside the ruins of a pyramid in Guatemala marks the earliest...
Apr 13, 2022
