Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) Science News (Master Feed)
Exclusive-Biden administration drafting executive order to simplify space rules -sources
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's administration is drafting an executive order intended to streamline approval for private rocket launches amid a broader effort to br...
Dec 09, 2022
Japanese billionaire Maezawa picks K-pop star T.O.P., DJ Steve Aoki for join SpaceX moon trip
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa on Friday revealed that K-pop star T.O.P. and DJ Steve Aoki will be among the eight crew members he plans to take on a trip around the moon next y...
Dec 08, 2022
Study shows dinosaurs were ‘struck down in their prime’ by asteroid
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The age of dinosaurs ended in cataclysm one spring day 66 million years ago when an asteroid 7.5 miles (12 km) wide hit Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, triggering the...
Dec 08, 2022
Oldest DNA on record – 2 million years – reveals Greenland’s lost world
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have identified DNA from animals, plants and microbes dating to about 2 million years ago - the oldest on record by far - from sediment at Greenland's ...
Dec 07, 2022
Bezos’ space company teams with Lockheed, Boeing for NASA moon lander pitch
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jeff Bezos' space company is partnering with Boeing Co and Lockheed Martin Corp to pitch a lunar lander to NASA, the companies announced on Tuesday, making a renewed bid to land...
Dec 06, 2022
Sony technologically ready to make humanoid robots once usage becomes clear
TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Group Corp said on Tuesday it was technologically ready to make humanoid robots, but that it should be identified first for what purpose such robots can be useful. "In terms of ...
Dec 06, 2022
NASA’s Orion capsule makes its closest approach to moon
By Steve Gorman (Reuters) - The uncrewed Orion capsule of NASA's Artemis I mission sailed within 80 miles (130 km) of the lunar surface on Monday, achieving the closest approach to the moon for a spac...
Dec 05, 2022
Mysteries of universe in focus for South African mega telescope
By Wendell Roelf CARNARVON, South Africa (Reuters) - South African officials and scientists on Monday celebrated a milestone towards building the world's largest radio astronomy instrument, which is c...
Dec 05, 2022
Prehistoric ‘wonderfully weird beast’ Whatcheeria grew big quickly
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It looked like a cross between a crocodile and a salamander - and definitely was not an animal to be messed with. Long before the dinosaurs or even the advent of ...
Dec 05, 2022
Japan’s ZOZO founder Maezawa: to make ‘big announcement’ about space after meeting Elon Musk – tweet
(Corrects returned date to Earth in paragraph 2) TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese billionare Yusaku Maezawa, after meeting with Elon Musk, said on his twitter on Monday he planned to make a "big announcemen...
Dec 04, 2022
