Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) Science News (Master Feed)
When science meets art: recycled metal and lab-grown gems
By Lara Brehmer LONDON (Reuters) - For some a natural diamond, created over billions of years, is the ultimate luxury, but an award-winning British designer sees greater worth in jewellery crafted usi...
Dec 22, 2023
Mexico emitted ‘extreme’ amounts of methane from gas pipeline, scientists find
By Stefanie Eschenbacher MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico emitted "extreme" amounts of methane from a natural gas pipeline running through its northern border state Durango in 2019, a research paper pub...
Dec 19, 2023
Blue Origin launches first New Shepard flight since grounding
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Blue Origin's suborbital New Shepard rocket lifted off from Texas on Tuesday carrying research payloads, a company live stream showed, in its first mission since a failure last y...
Dec 19, 2023
Ground issue delays Blue Origin’s first New Shepard launch since grounding
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin called off a return-to-flight launch of its suborbital New Shepard rocket from Texas over what it described as a ground system issue encoun...
Dec 18, 2023
SpaceX targets Dec 28 for launch of US military’s secretive X-37B spaceplane
(Reuters) - SpaceX said it was targeting Thursday, Dec. 28 for the launch of the U.S. military's X-37B robot spaceplane on its seventh mission to orbit. "Now targeting no earlier than Thursday, Decemb...
Dec 15, 2023
US-China science pact renewal ‘not a given’ -US envoy
By Michael Martina and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns said on Friday he had started talks with Beijing on renewing a landmark scientific cooperation ag...
Dec 15, 2023
EU seeks satellite array offers in space race with AI
By Tim Hepher PARIS (Reuters) - Europe is seeking final offers for a 6 billion euro ($6.55 billion) EU satellite constellation which is designed to compete with Elon Musk's Starlink and Jeff Bezos' Ku...
Dec 15, 2023
Rocket Lab successfully launches first Electron rocket since September failure
By Lewis Jackson SYDNEY (Reuters) - Rocket Lab on Friday said it had launched its Electron rocket into space from a facility in New Zealand, the SpaceX rival's first flight since a mission failure in ...
Dec 15, 2023
China launches experimental spacecraft into orbit for third time since 2020
BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Thursday successfully launched a reusable robotic spacecraft for the third time since 2020, in a series of secretive orbital test flights that it says are aimed at develop...
Dec 14, 2023
Aborted test and missing parts add to European space woes
By Tim Hepher PARIS (Reuters) - The final flight of Italy's Vega rocket has been delayed after crucial parts went missing, while the latest test of Europe's new Ariane 6 has been aborted, the European...
Dec 14, 2023
