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China wants to start using moon soil to build lunar bases as soon as this decade
BEIJING (Reuters) - China wants to start building a lunar base using soil from the moon in five years, Chinese media reported, with the ambitious plan kicking off as soon as this decade. More than 100...
Apr 12, 2023
Small ears, frizzy hair and dry ear wax – the genetics of mammoths
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The largest-ever genetic assessment of the woolly mammoth has yielded new insight into this elephant cousin - an icon of the Ice Age - including about its fluffy ...
Apr 07, 2023
SpaceX Starship rocket test could happen next week –FAA
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A SpaceX Starship Super Heavy rocket launch test could happen next week, according to a planning notice posted Tuesday by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The FAA noti...
Apr 04, 2023
Study explains how primordial life survived on ‘Snowball Earth’
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Life on our planet faced a stern test during the Cryogenian Period that lasted from 720 million to 635 million years ago when Earth twice was frozen over with run...
Apr 04, 2023
Former fighter pilot to be first Canadian to fly to the moon
By Ismail Shakil OTTAWA (Reuters) - NASA on Monday said Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen will join a lunar flyby mission expected to take off for the moon in 2024 as part of an expedition that will ma...
Apr 03, 2023
NASA to announce astronauts chosen for Artemis II lunar flyby mission
By Steve Gorman (Reuters) - NASA plans on Monday to introduce the four astronauts for its Artemis II lunar flyby mission, set for launch as early as next year in what would be the first crewed voyage ...
Apr 03, 2023
Deepest-ever fish caught and filmed off Japan by scientists
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Fish have been caught more than 5 miles (8 kilometres) under the surface of the ocean for the first time ever - and filmed even deeper - by a joint Japanese-Australian scientific ex...
Apr 03, 2023
Private Chinese firm scores first with liquid-propellant rocket launch
BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing Tianbing Technology Co on Sunday successfully launched a kerosene-oxygen rocket, becoming the first private Chinese launch company to send a liquid-propellant rocket into s...
Apr 02, 2023
For T. rex and kin, it was a stiff upper lip, not a toothy grin
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - They probably did not smile, frown or snarl, but T. rex and its relatives almost certainly had the dinosaur equivalent of lips - a new finding by scientists that ...
Mar 30, 2023
Genetic study details complex ancestry of East Africa’s Swahili people
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - A study of centuries-old DNA has deciphered the complex ancestry of coastal East Africa's Swahili people, revealing how a cosmopolitan and prosperous medieval civilization a...
Mar 29, 2023
