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Coronavirus infection rate may shift toward younger ages; death risk higher in cancer patients
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...
May 29, 2020
Spanish dig unearths human remains in hunt for Irish rebel lord
By Juan Medina VALLADOLID, Spain (Reuters) - Spanish archaeologists may have uncovered the final resting place of an Irish nobleman whose bloody 16th-century rebellion almost toppled Ireland's English...
May 29, 2020
Coal mine in Serbia gives up new Roman treasure
BELGRADE (Reuters) - As the sun sank over a vast opencast coal mine in eastern Serbia earlier this month, a small crane eased the front half of a Roman ship from the steep sides of the pit. An excavat...
May 29, 2020
Mammoth skeletons dug up at Mexico City airport construction site
By David Alire Garcia ZUMPANGO, Mexico (Reuters) - Alongside construction crews racing to build the Mexican capital's new airport, skulls and curving tusks of massive mammoths peek through the dirt as...
May 28, 2020
Exclusive: GSK says science does not link pandemic H1N1 flu vaccine to sleep disorder
By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - British drugmaker GSK said on Thursday that its previous flu pandemic vaccine, which used some of the same ingredients as COVID-19 vaccines currently under developme...
May 28, 2020
In lean times, fierce dinosaur Allosaurus resorted to cannibalism
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The dreaded dinosaur Allosaurus was the scourge of the Jurassic Period landscape some 150 million years ago, an apex predator just as Tyrannosaurus rex was 80 mil...
May 27, 2020
NASA set to resume human spaceflight from U.S. soil with historic SpaceX launch
By Joey Roulette CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - SpaceX, the private rocket company of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, was set to launch two Americans into orbit on Wednesday from Florida on a mi...
May 27, 2020
Collision of galaxies may have spurred our solar system’s formation
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A violent event on a colossal scale - the crash of two galaxies - may have paved the way for our solar system's birth. A star-formation binge in the Milky Way spa...
May 26, 2020
Elon Musk’s SpaceX raises $346 million ahead of debut astronaut mission
(Reuters) - Elon Musk's SpaceX said on Tuesday that it raised $346.2 million in a new round of funding, a day before it launches two American astronauts to the International Space Station. The private...
May 26, 2020
Musk’s SpaceX set for debut astronaut mission, renewing NASA’s crewed launch program
By Joey Roulette CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - Entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX is set to launch two American astronauts to the International Space Station on Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Cen...
May 26, 2020
