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Daughter of pioneering astronaut Alan Shepard set for Blue Origin spaceflight
By Joe Skipper and Steve Gorman VAN HORN, Texas (Reuters) - The eldest daughter of pioneering U.S. astronaut Alan Shepard is set for a ride to the edge of space aboard Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin commerci...
Dec 11, 2021
TV host Michael Strahan and Alan Shepard’s daughter set for Blue Origin launch
By Joe Skipper and Steve Gorman VAN HORN, Texas (Reuters) - Following the contrail blazed by "Star Trek" actor William Shatner to boldly go where few celebrities have gone before, two more honorary gu...
Dec 10, 2021
U.S. FAA finds no Blue Origin safety issues after review
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday it had found no safety issues after investigating allegations made against Blue Origin's human spacef...
Dec 10, 2021
Low staff vaccination tied to nursing home COVID deaths; experimental vaccine targets multiple coronaviruses
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...
Dec 10, 2021
Japan researchers use ostrich cells to make glowing COVID-19 detection masks
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese researchers have developed masks that use ostrich antibodies to detect COVID-19 by glowing under ultraviolet light. The discovery by Yasuhiro Tsukamoto and his team at Kyoto...
Dec 10, 2021
Footprints in Spain show meat-eating dinosaurs were fast and furious
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - It almost is not fair. Carnivorous dinosaurs were armed with menacing teeth inside muscular jaws, wielded dangerous claws on their hands and feet, and boasted keen vision an...
Dec 09, 2021
With lab help, whiskey distillers skip oak barrel-aging. But how does it taste?
By Nathan Frandino MENLO PARK, Calif. (Reuters) - In a small lab in California's Silicon Valley, Martin Janousek and Stu Aaron are making whiskey. There are no oak barrels stacked floor to ceiling. In...
Dec 09, 2021
Mixing vaccines boosts immune response; experimental saliva test nearly as accurate as PCR
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...
Dec 08, 2021
Alien ‘super-Jupiter’ breaks the mold on where planets can exist
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One of the largest planets ever detected orbits at an enormous distance around two stars with a combined mass up to 10 times greater than our sun, an extreme cele...
Dec 08, 2021
Exclusive-Aleph, Wacker team up to fast-track mass lab meat production
By Zuzanna Szymanska BERLIN (Reuters) - Israeli lab-grown meat startup Aleph Farms and German chemicals maker Wacker Chemie will work together to improve production processes for growth proteins to re...
Dec 08, 2021
