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Virgin Galactic sees delay to space mission with Italian Air Force
(Reuters) - Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc on Friday flagged a delay to its first commercial research mission with the Italian Air Force to mid-October due to a potential manufacturing defect. The compa...
Sep 10, 2021
‘Flying Dragon’ dinosaur roamed the southern skies too, scientists say
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Scientists in Chile's Atacama Desert have unearthed the fossil remains of a so-called "flying dragon," a Jurassic-era dinosaur previously known only to the northern hemisphere. Th...
Sep 10, 2021
Sobi arthritis drug cuts death risk; heart drugs may help prevent COVID-19 blood clots
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 have yet to be certifie...
Sep 10, 2021
All jokes aside, scientists find talking duck
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Dutch scientist has uncovered old recordings of a musk duck mimicking the phrase, "You bloody fool!" - learnt when it was raised by humans in an Australian bird park. Leiden Un...
Sep 10, 2021
South Korean researchers create chameleon-like artificial “skin”
By Minwoo Park SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean researchers say they have developed an artificial skin-like material, inspired by natural biology, that can quickly adjust its hues like a chameleon to ma...
Sep 08, 2021
Explainer – Beyond Delta, scientists are watching new coronavirus variants
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - The continued spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has spawned a Greek alphabet of variants - a naming system used by the World Health Organization (WHO) to track co...
Sep 08, 2021
Marine creature dubbed ‘the mothership’ was primordial scourge
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - About 506 million years ago, a strange marine creature whose body so resembled a science-fiction spacecraft that it has been dubbed 'the mothership' thrived in tropical seas...
Sep 08, 2021
Eni completes ‘landmark’ test in energy fusion project
MILAN (Reuters) - Italian energy group Eni said on Wednesday a test marking a landmark in efforts to produce energy from magnetically confined fusion had been successfully completed by its Massachuset...
Sep 08, 2021
NASA rover Perseverance collects first Martian rock sample
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NASA's Mars science rover Perseverance has collected and stashed away the first of numerous mineral samples that the U.S. space agency hopes to retrieve from th...
Sep 07, 2021
New kidney problems linked to ‘long COVID’; loss of smell may be followed by other smell distortions
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 have yet to be certifie...
Sep 03, 2021
