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Scientists hope genetic engineering can revive the American chestnut tree
(Reuters) - A day before Earth Day, retired forester Rex Mann watched as scientists signed an agreement with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina to allow for the eventual planting o...
Apr 22, 2021
A black hole dubbed ‘the Unicorn’ may be galaxy’s smallest one
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have discovered what may be the smallest-known black hole in the Milky Way galaxy and the closest to our solar system - an object so curious that they ...
Apr 22, 2021
NASA extracts breathable oxygen from thin Martian air
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NASA has logged another extraterrestrial first on its latest mission to Mars: converting carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into pure, breathable oxygen...
Apr 21, 2021
Russia plans to launch own space station after quitting ISS
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia is ready to start building its own space station with the aim of launching it into orbit by 2030 if President Vladimir Putin gives the go-ahead, the head of its Roscosmos spa...
Apr 21, 2021
Remdesivir appears safe for seriously ill children; patients may not pose highest risk to hospital staff
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by ...
Apr 21, 2021
Keeping up with T. Rex was easy, Dutch researchers say
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Unlike its popular movie incarnations, Tyrannosaurus rex - the giant meat-eating dinosaur from the Cretaceous period - walked slower than previously thought, most likely ambling ...
Apr 21, 2021
EU should make better use of its space assets, auditors say
By Marine Strauss BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union has not done enough to capitalise on its 18 billion euro ($21.6 billion) space programmes, including its Galileo satellite positioning system ...
Apr 21, 2021
Robots to fan out across world’s oceans to monitor their health
By Nathan Frandino MOSS LANDING, California (Reuters) - After years studying the icy waters of the Southern Ocean with floating robotic monitors, a consortium of oceanographers and other researchers i...
Apr 21, 2021
Australian academics enlist amateur scientists to study microplastics
By James Redmayne SYDNEY (Reuters) - Equipped with just a pan and sieve, a group of amateur scientists comb the beach looking for tiny bits of plastic that are near invisible to the naked eye but beli...
Apr 20, 2021
China plans $3 billion supercomputing centre to analyse data from space
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's southern space port of Wenchang will build a $3 billion supercomputing centre by year-end to analyse data obtained from space, according to state media on Tuesday. With a p...
Apr 20, 2021
