Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) Science News (Master Feed)
Japanese-Korean-Turkish language group traced to farmers in ancient China
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - A study combining linguistic, genetic and archaeological evidence has traced the origins of the family of languages including modern Japanese, Korean, Turkish and Mongolian ...
Nov 10, 2021
International Space Station to manoeuvre higher to swerve satellite junk
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The International Space Station will perform a brief manoeuvre on Wednesday to dodge a fragment of a defunct Chinese satellite, Russian space agency Roscosmos said. The station crew...
Nov 10, 2021
NASA, SpaceX set to launch space station’s next crew to orbit
By Joe Skipper and Steve Gorman CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - Elon Musk's private rocket company, SpaceX, was due to launch four more astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA on Wedne...
Nov 10, 2021
NASA says U.S. astronaut mission to moon will wait until 2025
(Reuters) -NASA will not send an astronaut mission to the moon until 2025 at the earliest, the U.S. space agency's administrator said on Tuesday, pushing back by at least a year a timeline originally ...
Nov 09, 2021
NASA-SpaceX crew begins return voyage from International Space Station
By Steve Gorman (Reuters) - Four astronauts who arrived at the International Space Station in April for a long-duration science mission began their return voyage to Earth on Monday as their SpaceX Cre...
Nov 08, 2021
Chinese astronauts complete space walk outside future space station
BEIJING (Reuters) - Two Chinese astronauts completed a space walk on Monday outside the core module of a future space station, with 41-year-old Wang Yaping becoming the first Chinese woman to perform ...
Nov 08, 2021
U.S. judge rejects Blue Origin challenge to NASA’s pick of SpaceX moon lander
(Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday rejected a lawsuit by Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin against the U.S. government over NASA's decision to award a $2.9 billion lunar lander contract to ri...
Nov 04, 2021
For baleen whales, meals are tons of fun – and lots of tons
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The first study to methodically calculate how much food blue whales and some of their close relatives eat has yielded a simple answer: a whole lot. The blue whale...
Nov 03, 2021
NASA delays launch of SpaceX mission, citing ‘medical issue’ with 1 of 4 crew members
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - NASA on Monday announced a three-day delay in a SpaceX rocket launch of four astronauts to the International Space Station, the second postponement of the mission in a...
Nov 01, 2021
Wine press dating back 2,700 years discovered in northern Iraq
By Kawa Omar DOHUK, Iraq (Reuters) - Archaeologists have excavated the first, and what they believe is the oldest, industrial wine press in northern Mesopotamia dating back more than 2,700 years and c...
Nov 01, 2021
