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Fossil embryo dubbed the ‘small giant’ packs surprises about a big dinosaur
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The skull of a dinosaur embryo from Argentina is providing surprising details about baby facial features present in one species from an important dinosaur group c...
Aug 27, 2020
How low did it go? Scientists calculate Earth’s Ice Age temperatures
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Guided by ocean plankton fossils and climate models, scientists have calculated just how cold it got on Earth during the depths of the last Ice Age, when immense ...
Aug 26, 2020
Boeing’s first Starliner crewed mission tentatively slated for 2021
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Boeing Co said on Tuesday it aims to redo its unmanned Starliner crew capsule flight test to the International Space Station before year-end or in January, depending on when it com...
Aug 25, 2020
Parachutist makes world’s first jump from solar-powered plane
By Denis Balibouse PAYERNE, Switzerland (Reuters) - A parachutist completed the world's first jump from a solar-powered aircraft on Tuesday after the plane soared to a height of 1,520 metres (nearly 5...
Aug 25, 2020
Scientists peer inside ancient Egyptian cat, snake and bird mummies
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists are gaining new insight into the ancient Egyptian practice of mummifying animals, using high-resolution 3D scans to peer inside mummies of a cat, a bir...
Aug 20, 2020
ISS crew looks for source of small cabin air leak: NASA
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Three crew members on board the International Space Station will spend the weekend in the vessel's Russian segment while they search for the source of a cabin air leak, NASA and Rus...
Aug 20, 2020
Monster swallows monster: Fossil reveals doubly fatal Triassic encounter
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a warm shallow sea about 240 million years ago in what is now southwestern China, a large dolphin-like marine reptile attacked and swallowed an almost equally ...
Aug 20, 2020
Scientists harvest more eggs from near-extinct northern white rhino
By NAZANINE MOSHIRI NAIROBI (Reuters) - Scientists racing to save the northern white rhino from extinction have harvested 10 more eggs from the last two females alive which they hope will help create ...
Aug 18, 2020
Mystery of the dimming of massive star Betelgeuse explained
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers have determined the cause of the dramatic dimming observed last year and earlier this year of one of the brightest stars in the night sky, a colossus ...
Aug 14, 2020
NHL roundup: Jackets rebound, even series with Lightning
Oliver Bjorkstrand scored the go-ahead goal late in the first period to lift the Columbus Blue Jackets to a 3-1 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday in Game 2 of their Eastern Conference f...
Aug 14, 2020
