Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) Science News (Master Feed)
Glacial lake floods threaten communities in Asia, South America
By Gloria Dickie (Reuters) - Melting mountain glaciers pose a growing flood risk to some 15 million people around the world, researchers said in a report published on Tuesday, with communities in Asia...
Feb 07, 2023
In-vitro plant gene editing technique excluded from GMO rules, EU court says
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - In-vitro plant gene editing techniques that are used conventionally and have a long safety record are excluded from EU laws restricting the use of genetically modi...
Feb 07, 2023
Generation Space launches startup accelerator in U.S
(Reuters) - Seraphim Space said on Monday that a unit of the British space investment firm would help provide 12 early-stage U.S. startups with more than $150 million in funding through a new accelera...
Feb 06, 2023
Israeli scientists develop sniffing robot with locust antennae
TEL AVIV, Israel (Reuters) - A new sniffing robot equipped with a biological sensor that uses the antennae of locusts could help advance disease diagnosis and improve security checks, its Israeli deve...
Feb 06, 2023
Elon Musk says to attempt Starship launch in March
(Reuters) - SpaceX may attempt a Starship rocket system launch in March, its billionaire chief Elon Musk said in a tweet on Saturday. "If remaining tests go well, we will attempt a Starship launch nex...
Feb 04, 2023
With frigid innovation, scientists make a new form of ice
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Using a device that might be described as a super-duper cocktail shaker, scientists have fashioned a previously unknown form of ice - one that might exist on our ...
Feb 03, 2023
Space power China to build ground stations on Antarctica to support satellites
BEIJING (Reuters) - China, only the third country to put a man in space after the Soviet Union and United States, is to build ground stations on Antarctica to back its network of ocean monitoring sate...
Feb 02, 2023
Astronomers document a not-so-super supernova in the Milky Way
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Supernovas are not always so super. These explosions that mark the death of a star often are spectacularly energetic. But once in a while they are a complete dud....
Feb 01, 2023
Ancient Egypt’s mummification ingredients came from far-flung locales
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - The ancient Egyptians employed a host of exotic ingredients - some apparently imported from as far away as Southeast Asia - to mummify their dead, as revealed by a new analy...
Feb 01, 2023
Italian research ship claims record journey deep into Antarctic
ROME (Reuters) - An Italian ice-breaker carrying scientists researching in the Antarctic has sailed further south than any ship has done before, the organisers of the voyage said on Tuesday. The Laura...
Jan 31, 2023
