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Scientists clarify origins of pterosaurs, the dinosaur era’s flying reptiles
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists may have solved one of paleontology's enduring mysteries - the evolutionary origins of the flying reptiles called pterosaurs that ruled the skies at th...
Dec 09, 2020
Israel plans 2024 moonshot after first unmanned lander crashed
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel will try another unmanned lunar landing in early 2024 after its first attempt ended last year with the spacecraft crashing on the moon's surface, officials said on Wednesd...
Dec 09, 2020
Musk’s SpaceX to stage key high-altitude Starship test
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Elon Musk's SpaceX was set to launch a prototype of its Mars rocket Starship in its highest-altitude "hop" test from the space company's Texas facilities on Tue...
Dec 08, 2020
Asteroid sample arrives in Japan after six-year space odyssey
By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - Samples of an asteroid 300 million miles from Earth arrived in Japan on Tuesday to applause and smiles, the climax of a six-year odyssey by a space probe pursuing the ...
Dec 08, 2020
Chuck Yeager, who broke sound barrier with ‘right stuff,’ dead at 97
(Reuters) - Chuck Yeager, the steely "Right Stuff" test pilot who took aviation to the doorstep of space by becoming the first person to break the sound barrier, died on Monday at the age of 97. "It i...
Dec 07, 2020
Phone camera may replace labs in novel testing approach; virus mutations linked to COVID-19 severity
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by ...
Dec 07, 2020
Japan space probe carrying asteroid rocks lands in Australian outback
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - A Japanese space probe carrying the first extensive samples of an asteroid has completed its six-year mission, landing safely in the remote Australian outback, Japan's space agen...
Dec 05, 2020
Bezos says Blue Origin will take the first woman to moon’s surface
(Reuters) - Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin will take the first woman to the moon's surface, the billionaire said on Friday as NASA nears a decision to pick its first privately built lunar lande...
Dec 05, 2020
Thai researchers unearth rare whale skeleton
By Juarawee Kittisilpa SAMUT SAKHON, Thailand (Reuters) - Thai researchers have unearthed a rare partially fossilised skeleton belonging to a Bryde's whale believed to be around 5,000 years old at an ...
Dec 04, 2020
‘This is not science fiction,’ say scientists pushing for ‘neuro-rights’
By Avi Asher-Schapiro (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Scientific advances from deep brain stimulation to wearable scanners are making manipulation of the human mind increasingly possible, creating a ne...
Dec 03, 2020
