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‘River monster’: Huge African dinosaur Spinosaurus thrived in the water
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The huge African predator Spinosaurus spent much of its life in the water, propelled by a paddle-like tail while hunting large fish - a "river monster," according...
Apr 29, 2020
Twitter opens up data for researchers to study COVID-19 tweets
By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) - Twitter Inc will grant researchers and software developers access to a real-time data stream of tens of millions of daily public tweets about COVID-19, which they ca...
Apr 29, 2020
Scientists urge Germans to keep social distancing discipline
By Paul Carrel BERLIN (Reuters) - Germans must persevere with social distancing or risk exponential growth in the number of coronavirus cases, four leading science institutes said on Wednesday. German...
Apr 29, 2020
Madagascar’s prehistoric ‘crazy beast’ sheds light on mammalian evolution
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A prehistoric opossum-sized critter dubbed the "crazy beast" that inhabited Madagascar at the end of the age of dinosaurs is providing scientists insight into ear...
Apr 29, 2020
A slice of the moon for sale: just $2.5 million
LONDON (Reuters) - One of the world's largest lunar meteorites goes on private sale at Christie's on Thursday, valued at 2 million pounds ($2.49 million). The moon rock, weighing over 13.5 kg, was pro...
Apr 29, 2020
New York maps coronavirus genome to help track future outbreaks
By Hussein Waaile and Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Scientists at New York City's health department have begun to analyze the novel coronavirus's genetic material to allow them to trace the orig...
Apr 27, 2020
Compugen sees ‘encouraging signals’ from early-stage cancer trial
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israeli cancer immunotherapy firm Compugen said on Monday it had positive initial results from an ongoing early-stage study of its COM701 therapy in patients with advanced solid t...
Apr 27, 2020
Before becoming frozen wasteland, Antarctica was home to frogs
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When paleontologist Thomas Mrs was peering into a microscope while sorting through tiny 40 million-year-old fossils unearthed on Seymour Island near the tip of th...
Apr 24, 2020
China unveils name of first Mars exploration mission
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's space agency on Friday unveiled the name of its first Mars exploration mission, coinciding with China's annual Space Day and the 50th anniversary of the launch of its first...
Apr 23, 2020
Land-dwelling insects drop in population but freshwater bugs doing better
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The world's ants, bees, butterflies, grasshoppers, fireflies and other land-dwelling insects have been suffering population drops of about 9% per decade but fresh...
Apr 23, 2020
