Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) Science News (Master Feed)
With lab help, whiskey distillers skip oak barrel-aging. But how does it taste?
By Nathan Frandino MENLO PARK, Calif. (Reuters) - In a small lab in California's Silicon Valley, Martin Janousek and Stu Aaron are making whiskey. There are no oak barrels stacked floor to ceiling. In...
Dec 09, 2021
Mixing vaccines boosts immune response; experimental saliva test nearly as accurate as PCR
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that has yet to be certified...
Dec 08, 2021
Alien ‘super-Jupiter’ breaks the mold on where planets can exist
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One of the largest planets ever detected orbits at an enormous distance around two stars with a combined mass up to 10 times greater than our sun, an extreme cele...
Dec 08, 2021
Exclusive-Aleph, Wacker team up to fast-track mass lab meat production
By Zuzanna Szymanska BERLIN (Reuters) - Israeli lab-grown meat startup Aleph Farms and German chemicals maker Wacker Chemie will work together to improve production processes for growth proteins to re...
Dec 08, 2021
Japanese billionaire Maezawa blasts off to International Space Station
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa blasted off to the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday in his first space flight, a voyage he sees as a dry-run for his ...
Dec 08, 2021
Chinese sighting of ‘cube’ on moon rouses speculation, inspires memes
BEIJING (Reuters) - A photograph of a cube-like object captured by a Chinese rover on the far side of the moon has fanned speculation over what it could be and inspired a host of memes by Chinese inte...
Dec 08, 2021
Cycling-American rider Birch swapping velodrome for outer space
(Reuters) - Eleven-time American national champion Christina Birch is swapping the cycling velodrome to start a journey she hopes will take her all the way to the moon. Birch's drastic change of direc...
Dec 07, 2021
Medicago’s plant-based vaccine trial shows 75.3% efficacy against Delta variant
(Reuters) - Canadian drug developer Medicago's plant-based COVID-19 vaccine candidate, enhanced by GlaxoSmithKline's booster, was 75.3% effective against the Delta variant of the virus in a late stage...
Dec 07, 2021
Japan billionaire Maezawa to fulfil childhood dream with space flight
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa said he could barely contain his excitement a day ahead of blasting off to the International Space Station in a prelude to a more a...
Dec 07, 2021
Omicron may raise re-infection risk; booster protection documented
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that has yet to be certified...
Dec 06, 2021
