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Darwin family microscope to be sold at auction
LONDON (Reuters) - A microscope Charles Darwin gave his son Leonard and which has remained in the family for nearly 200 years is headed for auction in December, and is expected to fetch up to $480,000...
Oct 16, 2021
Statins may slightly lower COVID-19 death risk; using a different vaccine as booster may offer more protection
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 have yet to be certifie...
Oct 15, 2021
China launches second crewed mission to build space station
JIUQUAN, China (Reuters) - China on Saturday launched a rocket carrying three astronauts, including one woman, to the core module of a future space station where they will live and work for six months...
Oct 15, 2021
From spy satellites to mobile networks, S.Korea hopes new rocket gets space programme off ground
By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea plans to test its first domestically produced space launch vehicle next week, a major step toward jumpstarting the country's space programme and achieving a...
Oct 15, 2021
Japanese billionaire Maezawa trains in Russia ahead of space trip
MOSCOW (Reuters) - For Japanese fashion magnate Yusaku Maezawa, training in zero gravity ahead of his planned trip to space later this year was not always easy. "I've been alive for 45 years and have ...
Oct 14, 2021
China to send three astronauts to space station early on Saturday
JIUQUAN, China (Reuters) - China will send three astronauts to an unfinished space station early on Saturday, including the first female crew member to visit the station, where they are due to stay fo...
Oct 14, 2021
Wake up and smell ‘sustainable’ coffee produced in Finnish lab
HELSINKI (Reuters) - With climate change threatening traditional coffee farming, Finnish scientists say they have produced coffee from cell cultures with an aroma and taste resembling the real thing. ...
Oct 13, 2021
‘Star Trek’ actor Shatner poised for Blue Origin space jaunt
By Mike Blake VAN HORN, Texas (Reuters) - Billionaire U.S. businessman Jeff Bezos's company Blue Origin is set for its second suborbital tourism flight on Wednesday, with actor William Shatner - who e...
Oct 13, 2021
With ‘Captain Kirk’ aboard, Blue Origin to return to ‘space, the final frontier’
By Mike Blake VAN HORN, Texas (Reuters) - Three months after billionaire U.S. businessman Jeff Bezos soared into space aboard a rocketship built by his Blue Origin company, the craft is set on Wednesd...
Oct 12, 2021
Hearth site in Utah desert reveals human tobacco use 12,300 years ago
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed evidence of a milestone in human culture - the earliest-known use of tobacco - in the remnants of a hearth built by early inhabitants of...
Oct 11, 2021
