Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) Science News (Master Feed)
OneWeb resumes satellite launches with flight from Russian cosmodrome
MOSCOW (Reuters) - OneWeb, the satellite firm rescued by the British government and India's Bharti Group, resumed flights on Friday in its push to provide global broadband coverage as 36 of its satell...
Dec 18, 2020
‘World’s ugliest orchid’ among new species named in 2020
LONDON (Reuters) - Orchids are not often called ugly, but that is how the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, London, described a new species of the normally vibrant and delicate flower discovered in the fo...
Dec 17, 2020
China says to share part of lunar samples with scientists from other countries
BEIJING (Reuters) - China plans to share data and samples that the Chang'e 5 probe obtained during its recent mission to the moon, based on international cooperation conventions, said the deputy head ...
Dec 17, 2020
Antarctica rocked by 30,000 tremors in 3 months, Chilean scientists say
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - More than 30,000 tremors have rocked Antarctica since the end of August, according to the University of Chile, a spike in seismic activity that has intrigued researchers who study...
Dec 16, 2020
Narrow hallways pose higher infection risk; hospitalized COVID-19 patients often need readmission
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 ...
Dec 16, 2020
China moon probe lands back on Earth -state media
(Reuters) - China's Chang'e-5 moon probe has landed in the northern Chinese region of Inner Mongolia, the official Xinhua news agency reported, completing its return to Earth and bringing back the fir...
Dec 16, 2020
Canada signs deal to send first astronaut on U.S. mission around the moon
By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will for the first time send an astronaut to circle the moon on a U.S. mission planned for 2023, Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains said on Wednesday, annou...
Dec 16, 2020
Thai researcher wonders if chicken feathers on the menu might fly
By Juarawee Kittisilpa BANGKOK/NAKHON PATHOM, Thailand (Reuters) - When Sorawut Kittibanthorn was looking for new types of waste to recycle, the then London-based student was drawn to the millions of ...
Dec 16, 2020
Kangaroos can learn to communicate with humans, researchers say
By Paulina Duran SYDNEY (Reuters) - Kangaroos can learn to communicate with humans similar to how domesticated dogs do, by using their gaze to "point" and ask for help, researchers said in a study pub...
Dec 16, 2020
A dinosaur with ‘hair’ and ‘ribbons’ has scientists enthralled
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 110 million years ago along the shores of an ancient lagoon in what is now northeastern Brazil, a two-legged chicken-sized Cretaceous Period dinosaur made a...
Dec 15, 2020
