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Scientists see risk of lost opportunity for long COVID research in China
By Andrew Silver SHANGHAI (Reuters) - With more than a full year past since China eased restrictions and let COVID-19 sweep its households, scientists are worried a unique opportunity may be slipping ...
Dec 13, 2023
Rocket Lab sets Dec. 15 Electron rocket launch after September failure
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rocket Lab on Tuesday said it was poised to launch its Electron rocket as soon as Dec. 15, carrying a Japanese satellite in what would mark the rocket's first f...
Dec 12, 2023
US military spaceplane poised for 7th launch, first atop SpaceX Falcon Heavy
By Joe Skipper and Steve Gorman CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - The U.S. military's secretive X-37B robot spaceplane was poised for liftoff from Florida on Monday on its seventh mission to orbit, ...
Dec 11, 2023
US military spaceplane atop SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch delayed to Monday
(Reuters) - The U.S. military's secretive X-37B spaceplane which was poised for launch on Sunday on the robot craft's seventh mission to orbit atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket has been delayed to Mon...
Dec 10, 2023
China LandSpace’s methane-powered rocket sends satellites into orbit -state media
BEIJING (Reuters) - A rocket developed by LandSpace Technology on Saturday launched three satellites into orbit, state media said, a milestone in the Chinese private rocket startup's mission to test w...
Dec 08, 2023
Fossils show dismembered young dinosaurs in belly of T. rex cousin
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - The young Gorgosaurus knew what it liked for dinner. About 75 million years ago in what is now Canada's Alberta province, this fearsome T. rex cousin set about hunting turke...
Dec 08, 2023
Magnetic surgical robot makes international debut in Chile hospital
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A robot that uses powerful magnets to perform less invasive and more efficient surgeries completed its first international procedure, a gallbladder removal, at a public hospital i...
Dec 06, 2023
Iran sends up rocket with test living capsule
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran sent up a rocket with a test living space capsule on Wednesday, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported, as the country pressed on with plans to send astronauts into space...
Dec 06, 2023
Oldest mosquito fossil comes with a bloodsucking surprise
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of people worldwide are killed annually by malaria and other diseases spread through the bite of mosquitoes, insects that date back to the a...
Dec 05, 2023
China’s LandSpace readies satellite launch with methane rocket
BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing-based LandSpace Technology, one of China's private space companies, is preparing to launch a satellite payload to orbit in the first commercial test of its rocket powered b...
Dec 04, 2023
