Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) Science News (Master Feed)
Could key ingredients for life have arrived from space? Scientists say yes
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A fresh examination of meteorites that landed in the United States, Canada and Australia is bolstering the notion that such objects may have delivered to Earth ea...
Apr 26, 2022
Inmarsat chief warns of potentially hazardous satellite boom
LONDON (Reuters) - British satellite company Inmarsat warned on Tuesday of dangerous levels of space debris from satellite constellations planned by Elon Musk's Starlink, Amazon, Chinese operators and...
Apr 26, 2022
First all-private astronaut team aboard space station heads for splashdown
By Steve Gorman (Reuters) - The first all-private astronaut crew to fly aboard the International Space Station (ISS) headed for splashdown Monday off the coast of Florida, wrapping up a two-week missi...
Apr 25, 2022
First all-private astronaut team aboard space station ready to fly home
By Steve Gorman (Reuters) - The first all-private astronaut team ever sent to the International Space Station (ISS) was due to depart the orbiting outpost on Sunday for a flight back to Earth, capping...
Apr 24, 2022
Explainer-Scientists investigate hepatitis outbreak in children in Europe, US
By Jennifer Rigby and Natalie Grover LONDON (Reuters) - Health authorities around the world are investigating a mysterious increase in severe cases of hepatitis - inflammation of the liver - in young ...
Apr 22, 2022
Scientists breed threatened Florida coral species in step toward reef restoration
By Brian Ellsworth and Julio-Cesar Chavez (Reuters) - Scientists have successfully bred a threatened species of coral as part of a project that hopes to restore damaged reefs off the coast of Florida ...
Apr 21, 2022
Amazon, SpaceX snag NASA space communications contracts
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Amazon's satellite venture, SpaceX's Starlink network and other satellite firms on Wednesday won a combined $278.5 million in contracts from NASA to demonstrate...
Apr 20, 2022
Surprised astronomers find new type of star explosion – a micronova
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers have detected a previously unknown type of stellar explosion called a micronova involving thermonuclear blasts at the polar regions of a type of burne...
Apr 20, 2022
Scientists prepare CERN collider restart in hunt for “dark matter”
By Cecile Mantovani PREVESSIN, France (Reuters) - Scientists at Europe's physics research centre will this week fire up the 27 kilometer-long Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the machine that found the Hi...
Apr 20, 2022
Australian scientists to power Tesla on 15,000-km trip with printed solar panels
By Stefica Nicol Bikes GOSFORTH, Australia (Reuters) - Scientists in Australia are testing printed solar panels they will use to power a Tesla on a 15,100-km (9,400-mile) journey beginning in Septembe...
Apr 19, 2022
