Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) Science News (Master Feed)

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Human beings for millennia have gazed with awe at the vast torrent of stars - bright and dim - shining in Earth's night sky that comprise the Milky Way. Our home ...

By Horaci Garcia BARCELONA (Reuters) - Researchers in Barcelona are trying to "trick nature" by creating an artificial womb for extremely premature babies after tests on animals kept foetuses alive fo...

By Jose Luis Gonzalez and Steve Gorman TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, New Mexico (Reuters) - A twin-fuselage jet stood ready on Thursday to carry a Virgin Galactic rocket plane with a three-man crew from Ital...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists on Wednesday unveiled evidence that gravitational waves, the ripples in the fabric of space-time predicted by Albert Einstein more than a century ago, ...

By Natalie Grover LONDON (Reuters) - UK researchers have homed in on a human gene implicated in thwarting most bird flu viruses from infecting people. Bird flu chiefly spreads among wild birds such as...

By Jose Luis Gonzalez and Steve Gorman TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, New Mexico (Reuters) - A three-man crew from Italy is set on Thursday to board a passenger rocket plane operated by Virgin Galactic, the v...

BRISBANE (Reuters) - NASA is looking to develop resources on the moon that initially include oxygen and water, and eventually may expand to iron and rare earths, and has already taken steps toward exc...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The megalodon, a huge shark that was the scourge of the ancient oceans and is a star in modern movie theaters, is named for its "large tooth" - and for good reaso...

By Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican lawmakers on Tuesday urged the U.S. State Department not to renew a decades-old U.S-China agreement on scientific cooperation, arguing that Beijing...

By Sybille de La Hamaide PARIS (Reuters) - Research into alternatives to neonicotinoid pesticides, found to be toxic to bees, is unlikely to deliver a solution capable of fully protecting sugar beet c...