Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) Science News (Master Feed)
SpaceX to take entrepreneur Dennis Tito on Starship around the moon
(Reuters) - Billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX said on Wednesday that the world's first space tourist Dennis Tito and his wife Akiko have signed up to fly around the moon on the space exploration firm's S...
Oct 12, 2022
Arizona cryonics facility preserves bodies to revive later
By Liliana Salgado SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (Reuters) - Time and death are "on pause" for some people in Scottsdale, Arizona. Inside tanks filled with liquid nitrogen are the bodies and heads of 199 humans w...
Oct 12, 2022
Japan’s Epsilon rocket failed after launch – Kyodo
TOKYO (Reuters) - The Japanese space agency's Epsilon rocket failed after it was launched on Wednesday, Kyodo News and other domestic media reported. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) sent a d...
Oct 11, 2022
NASA says DART mission succeeded in altering asteroid’s trajectory
(Reuters) - The spacecraft that NASA deliberately crashed into an asteroid last month succeeded in nudging the rocky moonlet out of its natural orbit, the first time humanity has altered the motion of...
Oct 11, 2022
‘Although not alive, I can still create art,’ robot Ai-Da tells UK lawmakers
LONDON (Reuters) - A "robot artist" called Ai-Da told British lawmakers on Tuesday that although it was an artificial creation, it was still capable of producing art, as it spoke at a parliamentary in...
Oct 11, 2022
Astra Space to supply engines for Maxar satellites
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rocket builder Astra Space Inc signed an agreement with Maxar to supply electric propulsion engines for the Earth observation firm's future low-earth orbiting s...
Oct 11, 2022
On New Zealand farm, scientists reduce cow burps to save the world
By Lucy Craymer PALMERSTON NORTH, NEW ZEALAND (Reuters) - More than a dozen calves wait at a research farm in New Zealand to be fed Kowbucha, a punnily named probiotic that studies show reduces burps ...
Oct 10, 2022
United Launch Alliance’s debut Vulcan mission slips to 2023 -CEO
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - United Launch Alliance has pushed the debut launch of its new Vulcan rocket to early 2023 at the request of one of its customers, the company's chief executive ...
Oct 10, 2022
Russia successfully launches navigation satellite – Interfax
(Reuters) - Russia launched its Soyuz-2.1b rocket carrying the GLONASS-K navigation system on Monday from a northern cosmodrome, the Interfax news agency reported, citing the defence ministry. "Combat...
Oct 10, 2022
Serbian scientists name new species of beetle after Djokovic
SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Serbian scientists have named a new species of beetle after tennis great Novak Djokovic due to its speed, strength, flexibility, durability and ability to survive in a difficult e...
Oct 07, 2022
