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Tyson the alpaca takes heavyweight role in search for coronavirus vaccine
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Scientists in Sweden are hoping an alpaca named Tyson can help deliver a knockout blow in the fight to develop a treatment or vaccine against the novel coronavirus that has kille...
Jun 04, 2020
Does drug touted by Trump work on COVID-19? After data debacle, we still don’t know
By Kate Kelland and Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists are resuming COVID-19 trials of the now world-famous drug hydroxychloroquine, as confusion continues to reign about the anti-malarial h...
Jun 04, 2020
Fossilized stomach contents show armored dinosaur’s leafy last meal
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a forest rebounding after a wildfire 110 million years ago, an armored dinosaur devoured a meal of tender ferns in western Canada before suffering a sudden dea...
Jun 03, 2020
Convalescent plasma fails to help in Chinese study; timing of test may affect result
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - The following is a brief roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caus...
Jun 03, 2020
France nears 1-billion-euro crisis fund for aero suppliers: sources
PARIS (Reuters) - French government and industry officials are negotiating a 1-billion-euro, privately led investment fund for small aerospace suppliers in which major manufacturers could invest 200 m...
Jun 03, 2020
Oldest and largest ancient Maya structure found in Mexico
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists using an aerial remote-sensing method have discovered the largest and oldest-known structure built by the ancient Maya civilization - a colossal rectan...
Jun 03, 2020
Hides that reveal: DNA helps scholars divine Dead Sea Scrolls
By Dan Williams and Rinat Harash JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Genetic sampling of the Dead Sea Scrolls has tested understandings that the 2,000-year-old artefacts were the work of a fringe Jewish sect, and s...
Jun 02, 2020
U.S. opens national security probe into vanadium imports
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Commerce Department said on Tuesday it was opening an investigation into whether imports of vanadium, a metal used in aerospace, defense and energy applications, impair...
Jun 02, 2020
In-home antibody test shows promise; recovering surgery patients at risk from coronavirus
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - The following is a brief roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caus...
Jun 01, 2020
‘Lady in the well’ sheds light on ancient human population movements
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The bones of a woman of Central Asian descent found at the bottom of a deep well after a violent death in an ancient city in Turkey are helping scientists underst...
Jun 01, 2020
