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UAE’s Hope Probe enters Mars orbit in first Arab mission
(Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates' first mission to Mars reached the red planet and successfully inserted itself into its orbit on Tuesday following a seven-month journey, allowing it to start send...
Feb 09, 2021
Telesat taps Thales Alenia Space for $3 billion deal to build low earth orbit satellites
By Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian satellite company Telesat on Tuesday tapped Thales Alenia Space to build 300 low earth orbit (LEO) telecommunications satellites in a contract worth about ...
Feb 09, 2021
UAE’s Hope Probe nears Mars in first Arab mission
By Lisa Barrington DUBAI (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates' first mission to Mars is set to reach the red planet and enter its orbit on Tuesday following a seven-month, 494 million km journey, allo...
Feb 09, 2021
Death risk higher from UK virus variant; vaccine in pregnancy may protect newborns
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 ...
Feb 08, 2021
An unleashed Jeff Bezos will seek to shift space venture Blue Origin into hyperdrive
By Eric M. Johnson SEATTLE (Reuters) - Freed from his daily obligations at Amazon.com Inc, Jeff Bezos is expected to turn up the heat on his space venture, Blue Origin, as it faces a pivotal year and ...
Feb 08, 2021
New DARPin drugs show promise, ‘good’ cholesterol tied to lower risk
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 ...
Feb 05, 2021
Mars ready for its close-up: China releases space probe’s first image
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's maiden space exploration mission to Mars has captured its first image of the red planet, the space agency said on Friday, some six months after the probe left Earth. The un...
Feb 05, 2021
Chinese researchers find natural mutation in African swine fever virus
By Dominique Patton BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese scientists have found a natural mutation in the African swine fever virus they say could be less deadly than the strain that ravaged the world's largest...
Feb 05, 2021
Noise pollution is harming sea life, needs to be prioritized, scientists say
By Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) - Far beneath the ocean surface, a cacophony of industrial noise is disrupting marine animals' ability to mate, feed and even evade predators, scientists warn. With rumbl...
Feb 04, 2021
This newly discovered chameleon is so tiny it can fit on your fingertip
BERLIN (Reuters) - Scientists say they discovered a sunflower seed-sized subspecies of chameleon that may well be the smallest reptile on Earth. Two of the miniature lizards, one male and one female, ...
Feb 04, 2021
