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NASA, SpaceX sign agreement to enhance space safety

(Reuters) - NASA said on Thursday it had signed an agreement with billionaire Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX that would enable data sharing between the parties to maintain and improve space safety....

Syndicated Content Mar 18, 2021

Bizarre ancient shark glided through the sea with lengthy wing-like fins

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 93 million years ago, a bizarre plankton-eating shark shaped unlike any other known marine creature glided through the sea in what is now northeastern Mexic...

Syndicated Content Mar 18, 2021

NASA to test rocket engines that could eventually send humans to the moon

(Reuters) - NASA on Thursday will ignite the engines on a rocket that Boeing built to eventually launch Artemis missions to the moon after a previous test in January was cut short. NASA plans to condu...

Syndicated Content Mar 18, 2021

UK’s top COVID-19 virus hunter had a long and winding path to the top

By Guy Faulconbridge CAMBRIDGE, England (Reuters) - Sharon Peacock, one of the world's top scientific warriors in the battle with the 0.0001-millimetre virus that causes COVID-19, had to fight a much ...

Syndicated Content Mar 18, 2021

Virus variants found to be deadlier, more contagious; some may thwart vaccines

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 ...

Syndicated Content Mar 17, 2021

Mars long ago was wet. You may be surprised where the water went

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mars was once a wet world, with abundant bodies of water on its surface. But this changed dramatically billions of years ago, leaving behind the desolate landscap...

Syndicated Content Mar 17, 2021

Israeli town abuzz with delivery drones in coordinated airspace test

HADERA/HAIFA, Israel (Reuters) - The skies above the Israeli town of Hadera were abuzz with delivery drones on Wednesday as national authorities tested a central control room for safely coordinating t...

Syndicated Content Mar 17, 2021

Primordial lightning strikes may have helped life emerge on Earth

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The emergence of the Earth's first living organisms billions of years ago may have been facilitated by a bolt out of the blue - or perhaps a quintillion of them. ...

Syndicated Content Mar 16, 2021

mRNA vaccines spur lymph nodes for longer-term protection; COVID-19 test accuracy may vary by time of day

Syndicated Content Mar 15, 2021

HK scientist develops retinal scan technology to identify early childhood autism

By Aleksander Solum HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong scientist has developed a method to use machine learning and artificial intelligence to scan retinas of children as young as six to detect early a...

Syndicated Content Mar 14, 2021

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