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SpaceX chief Elon Musk ‘highly confident’ his Starship will reach orbit this year
(Corrects typographical error in Tesla, adds RIC; paragraph 6) By Steve Gorman (Reuters) -Elon Musk said on Thursday he was "highly confident" his new SpaceX Starship, designed for voyages to the moon...
Feb 11, 2022
Astra Space fails to deliver satellites to orbit in first operational launch
(Fixing misplaced word in 1st paragraph) (Reuters) - Commercial launch startup Astra Space Inc reported that its rocket failed to deliver its satellite payloads to orbit on Thursday in the company's f...
Feb 10, 2022
French virologist who co-discovered HIV virus has died – AFP
PARIS (Reuters) - French virologist Luc Montagnier, who won a Nobel Prize for his part in discovering the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), has died, French news agency AFP reported on Thursday. Mon...
Feb 10, 2022
The sad and sorry story of Dolly the diseased and doomed dinosaur
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a warm and humid Jurassic Period landscape lush with plant and animal life in what is now southwest Montana, an adolescent long-necked dinosaur was miserably s...
Feb 10, 2022
NASA raises concerns about SpaceX satellite deployment plan
By David Shepardson and Steve Gorman WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) raised concerns about SpaceX's plan to deploy about 30,000 satellites for its Starl...
Feb 09, 2022
Risk of new heart problems jumps after COVID; mRNA shot side effects no different for cancer patients
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 09, 2022
European scientists set nuclear fusion energy record
LONDON (Reuters) - European scientists on Wednesday announced fresh progress in the drive to make nuclear fusion a practical, safe and clean energy source, saying an experiment at a site in England se...
Feb 09, 2022
Solar storm disables 40 newly launched SpaceX satellites
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A geomagnetic storm triggered by a large burst of radiation from the sun has disabled at least 40 of the 49 satellites newly launched by SpaceX as part of its S...
Feb 09, 2022
Discovery of Omicron in New York deer raises concern over possible new variants
By Barbara Goldberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - The discovery of the Omicron variant in white-tailed deer in New York has raised concerns that the species, numbering 30 million in the United States, could be...
Feb 08, 2022
Space launch startup Astra scrubs latest attempt to reach orbit
By Steve Gorman (Reuters) - California-based rocket startup Astra Space Inc aborted the planned liftoff of its first operational satellite launch, a NASA mission, on Monday, citing a technical glitch ...
Feb 07, 2022
