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GeoVax vaccine targeting virus in two places shows promise; virus may become resistant to antibody drugs
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...
Mar 11, 2022
Galapagos tortoises belong to new species -nat’l park
By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) - Scientists have discovered that a type of giant tortoise present on one of Ecuador's Galapagos Islands is not from the species it was previously thought to be, ...
Mar 11, 2022
California startup Astrolab unveils space rover, more than a mere ‘moon buggy’
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Los Angeles-area startup founded by a veteran spaceflight robotics engineer unveiled on Thursday its full-scale, working prototype for a next-generation lunar...
Mar 11, 2022
Meteorite gouged huge Greenland crater 58 million years ago, study finds
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An immense crater in northwestern Greenland, buried under a thick sheet of ice and first spotted in 2015, is much older than previously suspected - formed by a me...
Mar 09, 2022
Original Buzz Aldrin moon walk photo sells for $7,700 at auction
(Refiling to fix date in dateline to March 9 instead of March 8) COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A series of original NASA photographs from the Apollo missions sold for a total of 1.16 million Danish crowns ($...
Mar 09, 2022
Denmark says sorry for taking Greenland children in 1950s social experiment
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark's prime minister on Wednesday delivered a face-to-face apology to six living victims of a 1950s social experiment in which 22 Greenlandic children were taken from their ...
Mar 09, 2022
Primordial octopus was up in arms – 10 instead of eight
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For the roughly 300 known octopus species dwelling in the world's oceans, having eight arms is a defining characteristic. But that is not the way it started. Scie...
Mar 08, 2022
COVID-19 can cause brain shrinkage, memory loss – study
(Reuters) - COVID-19 can cause the brain to shrink, reduce grey matter in the regions that control emotion and memory, and damage areas that control the sense of smell, an Oxford University study has ...
Mar 07, 2022
Omicron infections contagious for at least 6 days; Takeda drug shows promise as COVID treatment
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...
Mar 07, 2022
Scientists identify new gene differences in severe COVID patients
By Manas Mishra (Reuters) - Scientists have pinpointed 16 new genetic variants in people who developed severe COVID-19 in a large study published on Monday that could help researchers develop treatmen...
Mar 07, 2022
