Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) Science News (Master Feed)
Newly devised human family tree reveals the ‘genealogy of everyone’
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - From bustling Tokyo to the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea, from Novosibirsk in Siberia to the equatorial city of Quito, from congested Cairo to the desert town of T...
Feb 24, 2022
COVID raises risk of mental health problems; new Omicron version not making people sicker in S. Africa
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that has yet to be certified...
Feb 23, 2022
A good day to die: doom for the dinosaurs came in springtime
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - On a spring day 66 million years ago, paddlefish and sturgeon swam in a river that meandered through a flourishing landscape populated by mighty dinosaurs and sma...
Feb 23, 2022
Archaeologists find 7,000-year-old ritual hunt site in Jordanian desert
By Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Hams Rabah AMMAN (Reuters) - Archaeologists have discovered a 7,000-year-old stone age site in a remote desert in Jordan, with structures which show humans were rounding up ...
Feb 23, 2022
Musk’s Starlink connects remote Tonga villages still cut off after tsunami
By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Elon Musk's satellite venture has launched a free high-speed internet service to connect remote villages in Tonga that have been cut off since a devastating volcan...
Feb 23, 2022
Scottish fossil of flying reptile leaves scientists ‘gobsmacked’
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - A fossil jawbone peeking out from a limestone seashore on Scotland's Isle of Skye led scientists to discover the skeleton of a pterosaur that showed that these remarkable fl...
Feb 22, 2022
Antibodies induced by mRNA shots improve for months; blood cells damaged by COVID cause blood vessel problems
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that has yet to be certified...
Feb 18, 2022
Rare baby ghost shark discovery delights New Zealand scientists
SYDNEY (Reuters) - While typically heard in an omnipresent children's song, the phrase baby shark has delighted New Zealand scientists after the rare discovery of a juvenile ghost shark during a surve...
Feb 16, 2022
New observations help explain universe’s most energetic objects
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Observations showing a roughly donut-shaped cloud of cosmic dust and gas shrouding a huge black hole at the heart of a galaxy similar in size to our Milky Way are...
Feb 16, 2022
Higher estrogen levels linked to lower COVID death risk; antacid shows promise addressing symptoms
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that has yet to be certified...
Feb 16, 2022
