Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) Science News (Master Feed)
Factbox-Elon Musk’s missed deadlines for FDA approval of Neuralink brain-chip trials
By Rachael Levy (Reuters) - Several times since 2019, billionaire Elon Musk has predicted his brain-chip company, Neuralink, would soon secure FDA approval for human trials. But the company's applicat...
Mar 02, 2023
Factbox-Neuralink, other brain-chip makers face long road to FDA approval
By Marisa Taylor (Reuters) - Neuralink, founded in 2016, has yet to receive FDA approval to test its brain chip in humans. Other implant makers have spent years or decades on research to secure U.S. r...
Mar 02, 2023
China gears up to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink this year
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's military-industrial complex is set to start building its first constellation of very low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites later this year, the latest Chinese bid to catch up wi...
Mar 02, 2023
SpaceX launches latest space station crew to orbit for NASA
By Joe Skipper and Steve Gorman CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX launched a four-person crew on a trip to the International Space Station early on Thursday, with a...
Mar 02, 2023
SpaceX ready to retry launching NASA’s next space station crew
By Joe Skipper and Steve Gorman CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX was ready to try again at sending NASA's next long-duration crew of the International Space Statio...
Mar 01, 2023
Scientists uncover new Easter Island moai statue in dry lake bed
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Scientists have found a previously undiscovered moai on Easter Island, uncovering the large stone statue in a dry lake bed on the tiny, remote island in the middle of the Pacific....
Mar 01, 2023
Studies show how asteroid-bashing spacecraft was ‘phenomenally successful’
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA's DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos at a spot between two boulders during last September's first test of a planetary defense system, sendin...
Mar 01, 2023
Genetics study lays bare Ice Age drama for humans in Europe
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - Europe was no balmy paradise during the Ice Age, with the vast glaciers that blanketed large parts of the continent rendering wide swathes inhospitable for humans. But our s...
Mar 01, 2023
Virgin Galactic emerges from lengthy spacecraft upgrades, eyes Q2 commercial service
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc has completed a lengthy upgrade period for its centerpiece tourist spacecraft, with commercial service on track to begin in the sec...
Feb 28, 2023
Japan’s ispace on track for late April touchdown attempt of private moon lander
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Japanese space startup ispace's lunar lander reached its farthest distance from Earth and is on track for a lunar landing in late April, the company said in a mission update on ...
Feb 27, 2023
