Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) Science News (Master Feed)
China to send three astronauts to space station early on Saturday
JIUQUAN, China (Reuters) - China will send three astronauts to an unfinished space station early on Saturday, including the first female crew member to visit the station, where they are due to stay fo...
Oct 14, 2021
Wake up and smell ‘sustainable’ coffee produced in Finnish lab
HELSINKI (Reuters) - With climate change threatening traditional coffee farming, Finnish scientists say they have produced coffee from cell cultures with an aroma and taste resembling the real thing. ...
Oct 13, 2021
‘Star Trek’ actor Shatner poised for Blue Origin space jaunt
By Mike Blake VAN HORN, Texas (Reuters) - Billionaire U.S. businessman Jeff Bezos's company Blue Origin is set for its second suborbital tourism flight on Wednesday, with actor William Shatner - who e...
Oct 13, 2021
With ‘Captain Kirk’ aboard, Blue Origin to return to ‘space, the final frontier’
By Mike Blake VAN HORN, Texas (Reuters) - Three months after billionaire U.S. businessman Jeff Bezos soared into space aboard a rocketship built by his Blue Origin company, the craft is set on Wednesd...
Oct 12, 2021
Hearth site in Utah desert reveals human tobacco use 12,300 years ago
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed evidence of a milestone in human culture - the earliest-known use of tobacco - in the remnants of a hearth built by early inhabitants of...
Oct 11, 2021
Risk of dangerous blood clots linked to moderate COVID-19; high-dose blood thinner can prevent clots
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 have yet to be certifie...
Oct 11, 2021
Energy from bogs: Estonian scientists use peat to make batteries
By Janis Laizans and Andrius Sytas TARTU, Estonia (Reuters) - Peat, plentiful in bogs in northern Europe, could be used to make sodium-ion batteries cheaply for use in electric vehicles, scientists at...
Oct 11, 2021
In a rocky Israeli crater, scientists simulate life on Mars
RAMON CRATER, Israel (Reuters) - From the door of the expedition base, a few small steps to the left an autonomous rover passes by. A few giant leaps to the right is an array of solar panels. The land...
Oct 10, 2021
Winds delay Blue Origin’s space launch with Shatner
(Reuters) - Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin said on Sunday it had pushed this week's launch target of its New Shepard vehicle to Wednesday, delaying "Star Trek" actor William Shatner's sojourn t...
Oct 10, 2021
Delta does not appear to make children sicker; Secondary immune response stronger after infection than after shot
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 have yet to be certifie...
Oct 08, 2021
