Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) Science News (Master Feed)
First all-private astronaut team aboard space station heads for splashdown
By Steve Gorman (Reuters) - The first all-private astronaut crew to fly aboard the International Space Station (ISS) headed for splashdown Monday off the coast of Florida, wrapping up a two-week missi...
Apr 25, 2022
First all-private astronaut team aboard space station ready to fly home
By Steve Gorman (Reuters) - The first all-private astronaut team ever sent to the International Space Station (ISS) was due to depart the orbiting outpost on Sunday for a flight back to Earth, capping...
Apr 24, 2022
Explainer-Scientists investigate hepatitis outbreak in children in Europe, US
By Jennifer Rigby and Natalie Grover LONDON (Reuters) - Health authorities around the world are investigating a mysterious increase in severe cases of hepatitis - inflammation of the liver - in young ...
Apr 22, 2022
Scientists breed threatened Florida coral species in step toward reef restoration
By Brian Ellsworth and Julio-Cesar Chavez (Reuters) - Scientists have successfully bred a threatened species of coral as part of a project that hopes to restore damaged reefs off the coast of Florida ...
Apr 21, 2022
Amazon, SpaceX snag NASA space communications contracts
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Amazon's satellite venture, SpaceX's Starlink network and other satellite firms on Wednesday won a combined $278.5 million in contracts from NASA to demonstrate...
Apr 20, 2022
Surprised astronomers find new type of star explosion – a micronova
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers have detected a previously unknown type of stellar explosion called a micronova involving thermonuclear blasts at the polar regions of a type of burne...
Apr 20, 2022
Scientists prepare CERN collider restart in hunt for “dark matter”
By Cecile Mantovani PREVESSIN, France (Reuters) - Scientists at Europe's physics research centre will this week fire up the 27 kilometer-long Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the machine that found the Hi...
Apr 20, 2022
Australian scientists to power Tesla on 15,000-km trip with printed solar panels
By Stefica Nicol Bikes GOSFORTH, Australia (Reuters) - Scientists in Australia are testing printed solar panels they will use to power a Tesla on a 15,100-km (9,400-mile) journey beginning in Septembe...
Apr 19, 2022
Europa’s similarity to Greenland hints that Jupiter moon could harbor life
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The uncanny resemblance between features on Europa's frozen surface and a landform in Greenland that sits atop a sizable pocket of water are providing intriguing ...
Apr 19, 2022
Omicron sub-variant BA.2 makes up nearly 75% of COVID variants in U.S. – CDC
(Reuters) - The BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron is estimated to make up 74.4% of the coronavirus variants in the United States as of April 16, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sai...
Apr 19, 2022
