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Four-member SpaceX crew safely docks with space station
By Steve Gorman (Reuters) -A four-member SpaceX Crew Dragon team, including a Russian cosmonaut and the first Native American woman sent to orbit, safely docked with the International Space Station (I...
Oct 06, 2022
A ‘cataclysmic’ celestial couple gone wrong – a star eats its mate
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Unlike the lonely sun, about half the stars in our Milky Way galaxy are in a long-term committed relationship with another star, orbiting each another in a celest...
Oct 06, 2022
Puny critter shows humble beginnings of magnificent flying reptiles
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pterosaurs, the flying reptiles that thrived during the age of dinosaurs, achieved great size - some with wingspans like a fighter jet - and displayed striking an...
Oct 05, 2022
Nobel prize goes to pioneers of molecule-building “click chemistry”
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Scientists Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and Barry Sharpless won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for discovering reactions that let molecular building blocks snap...
Oct 05, 2022
Russian cosmonaut hitching ride with SpaceX as part of next space station crew
By Joe Skipper and Steve Gorman CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX was due to launch the next long-duration crew of the International Space Station into orbit on Wednes...
Oct 05, 2022
Rugby-Research shows huge spike in MND risk among former international players
By Mitch Phillips LONDON (Reuters) - A new study looking at the impact of concussion on a group of former Scottish international rugby players has found that they were 15 times more likely to develop ...
Oct 04, 2022
Lowly wax worm’s saliva may boost fight against plastic pollution
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two substances in the saliva of wax worms - moth larvae that eat wax made by bees to build honeycombs - readily break down a common type of plastic, researchers s...
Oct 04, 2022
Nobel Prize in Physics won by French, U.S., Austrian scientists
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Scientists Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for their advances in quantum mechanics on the behaviour of subatomic particles, open...
Oct 04, 2022
Space station’s Italian commander, with lookalike Barbie, tells girls about science in orbit
(Reuters) - The first European female commander on the International Space Station, Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, answered young girls' questions -- accompanied by a lookalike Barbie doll....
Oct 03, 2022
Rocket builder Firefly nails crucial milestone with first mission success
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rocket builder Firefly Aerospace reached orbit for the first time this weekend, hitting a crucial milestone that kick-starts its launch business and opens new f...
Oct 03, 2022
