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‘Doomsday Clock’ moves to 90 seconds to midnight as nuclear threat rises
By Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Atomic scientists set the "Doomsday Clock" closer to midnight than ever before on Tuesday, saying threats of nuclear war, disease, and climate volatility ha...
Jan 24, 2023
U.S. to test nuclear-powered spacecraft by 2027
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States plans to test a spacecraft engine powered by nuclear fission by 2027 as part of a long-term NASA effort to demonstrate more efficient methods of propelling ast...
Jan 24, 2023
Explainer-What is the ‘Doomsday Clock’ and how does it work?
By Katharine Jackson (Reuters) - Atomic scientists will reset the "Doomsday Clock" on Tuesday with an estimate of how close they believe humanity is in 2023 to annihilation due to existential threats ...
Jan 23, 2023
Lab-grown meat moves closer to American dinner plates
By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Once the stuff of science fiction, lab-grown meat could become reality in some restaurants in the United States as early as this year. Executives at cultivated m...
Jan 23, 2023
Buzz Aldrin shoots the moon with 93rd birthday wedding
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who became the second human being to walk on the moon more than half a century ago, got married on his 93rd birthday, saying he and his bride ...
Jan 21, 2023
Canada unveils goal to support domestic rocket launches
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Canada on Friday announced a multi-year plan to support the first privately built rocket launches in the country and develop new launch regulations, as global demand for space-b...
Jan 20, 2023
As ‘skyglow’ grows, study documents glaring global light pollution
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Light pollution caused by the incessant nighttime glow of electric lights appears to be intensifying, according to research using observations from tens of thousa...
Jan 19, 2023
Meat cultivated from cow cells is kosher, Israel’s chief rabbi rules
By Ari Rabinovitch JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's chief rabbi has given a kosher stamp of approval this week to a company looking to sell steak grown from cow cells - while effectively taking the anim...
Jan 19, 2023
For whales, study shows gigantism is in the genes
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The blue, fin, bowhead, gray, humpback, right and sperm whales are the largest animals alive today. In fact, the blue whale is the largest-known creature ever on ...
Jan 19, 2023
Space startups funding halved in 2022 as investors shift to safer bets
By Akash Sriram and Shreyaa Narayanan (Reuters) - Investments in space startups more than halved to $21.9 billion in 2022 as their venture-capital backers sought safer avenues in the face of a grim ec...
Jan 19, 2023
