Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) Science News (Master Feed)
NASA’s new moon rocket tested by hurricane-force winds at Florida launchpad
By Joey Roulette (Reuters) - NASA's new $4 billion moon rocket endured fierce winds and heavy rains early Thursday as it rode out Hurricane Nicole on its Florida launchpad, apparently with only minor ...
Nov 10, 2022
Divers find Challenger space shuttle wreckage off Florida coast
By Dan Whitcomb (Reuters) - Divers from a documentary crew looking for the wreckage of a World War II aircraft off the coast of Florida found a large piece of the space shuttle Challenger, which explo...
Nov 10, 2022
Drone taxi take first spin in air traffic near Paris
PARIS (Reuters) - An electric helicopter with multiple rotors took its first flight in conventional air traffic near Paris on Thursday as it prepares for commercial flights from 2024. The Volocopter t...
Nov 10, 2022
COP27: Israel harnessing DNA of bygone wild crops to enhance food supply
By Rinat Harash and Ari Rabinovitch Rishon Lezion, Israel (Reuters) - Could the key to securing the world's food supply for the future be hidden in the DNA of crops from the distant past? Scientists i...
Nov 10, 2022
Explainer-What the latest U.N. science says about climate change
(Reuters) - At the COP27 conference in Egypt, delegates have at their disposal decades of research into warming trajectories published by the U.N. climate science agency to inform their decisions. The...
Nov 10, 2022
Hubble telescope reveals huge star’s explosion in blow-by-blow detail
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 11.5 billion years ago, a distant star roughly 530 times larger than our sun died in a cataclysmic explosion that blew its outer layers of gas into the surr...
Nov 09, 2022
Hurricane threat prompts NASA to delay next launch attempt of moon rocket
By Steve Gorman (Reuters) - NASA will batten down its big new moon rocket on the launch pad to ride out a hurricane expected to hit near Cape Canaveral, Florida, and its targeted liftoff time next wee...
Nov 08, 2022
South Africa’s new ground station to help NASA track space flights
By Wendell Roelf MATJIESFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - A new deep-space ground station being built in South Africa's semi-desert Karoo region will come online by 2025 to help track history-making N...
Nov 08, 2022
‘Exceptional’ discovery as ancient bronze statues emerge in Tuscany
By Alvise Armellini ROME (Reuters) - Archaeologists in Italy have found more than two dozen beautifully preserved bronze statues dating back to ancient Roman times in thermal baths in Tuscany, in what...
Nov 08, 2022
Factbox-‘Beaver blood moon’ offers world’s last total lunar eclipse until 2025
By Steve Gorman (Reuters) - Nighttime skywatchers from East Asia to North America will be treated to the rare spectacle of a "Beaver blood moon" on Tuesday, weather permitting, as the Earth, moon and ...
Nov 07, 2022
