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Mystery of space inspired New Zealand rocket man’s journey to Nasdaq
By Praveen Menon WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand entrepreneur Peter Beck said his space firm Rocket Lab was the result of a lifelong quest for signs of life outside earth, as the startup hit a new ...
Aug 26, 2021
Fossil of previously unknown four-legged whale found in Egypt
By Mahmoud Mourad CAIRO (Reuters) - Scientists said on Wednesday they had discovered the 43 million-year-old fossil of a previously unknown amphibious four-legged whale species in Egypt that helps tra...
Aug 25, 2021
Thailand develops robotic system to squeeze out more vaccine doses
By Juarawee Kittisilpa BANGKOK (Reuters) - As Thailand struggles with its worst coronavirus outbreak yet, researchers in the country have developed a machine to draw out COVID-19 vaccine doses more ef...
Aug 25, 2021
Mexico City taps solar energy to clean up historic Aztec-era canals
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican scientists have developed a unique "nanobubble" system using solar energy to improve water quality in the canals of Mexico City's Xochimilco ecological zone, a popular ...
Aug 24, 2021
Battery pioneer Akira Yoshino on Tesla, Apple and the electric future
By Paul Lienert (Reuters) - Akira Yoshino, a co-winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on lithium-ion batteries, can take credit for the upheaval in both the automotive and technolog...
Aug 24, 2021
NASA temporarily halts work on lunar lander contract pending court case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA has agreed to temporarily halt work on a $2.9 billion lunar lander contract awarded to Elon Musk's SpaceX after Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin sued the U.S government, an agency ...
Aug 19, 2021
Elon Musk’s satellites beam internet into remote Chilean fishing hamlet
By Pablo Sanhueza SOTOMO, Chile (Reuters) - After half an hour's windswept journey on foot and by boat through a craggy forested estuary to the school he attends in remote southern Chile, Diego Guerre...
Aug 19, 2021
Cancer patients’ own cells used in 3D printed tumours to test treatments
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Researchers have used brain cancer patients' own cells in a form of 3D printing material to make a model of their tumour to test the efficacy of potential treatments before using ...
Aug 18, 2021
Well-preserved skeleton sheds light on culture in ancient Pompeii
ROME (Reuters) - Archaeologists have uncovered a well-preserved skeleton at a burial site in Pompeii which has shed new light on funeral rites and cultural activity in the doomed, ancient Roman city, ...
Aug 17, 2021
Blue Origin sues U.S. government over SpaceX lunar lander contract
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin sued the U.S government over NASA's decision to award a $2.9 billion lunar lander contract to Elon Musk's SpaceX. Blue Origin's lawsu...
Aug 16, 2021
