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Genetic study reveals how ancient seafarers settled vast Polynesia
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Beginning more than a millennium ago, intrepid seafarers traversed vast Pacific Ocean expanses in double-hulled sailing canoes to reach the far-flung islands of P...
Sep 22, 2021
Exclusive-Polish gene project moves to drop Chinese tech on data concerns
By Joanna Plucinska WARSAW (Reuters) - A European Union-funded project to build a genomic map of Poland plans to drop gene-sequencing technology from China's BGI Group over concerns about data securit...
Sep 22, 2021
NASA splits human spaceflight unit in two, reflecting new orbital economy
By Steve Gorman (Reuters) - NASA is splitting its human spaceflight department into two separate bodies - one centered on big, future-oriented missions to the moon and Mars, the other on the Internati...
Sep 21, 2021
Buckle up: Cambodian students build manned drone to aid community
By Prak Chan Thul PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Inspired at first by a desire to beat their city's notorious traffic, a group of Cambodian students have designed a prototype drone that they hope can eventual...
Sep 20, 2021
Tianzhou-3 cargo spacecraft docks with China space station module
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese robotic resupply cargo spacecraft successfully docked with an orbiting space station module on Monday in the fourth of 11 missions needed to finish building China's first...
Sep 20, 2021
Cambodia bat researchers on mission to track origin of COVID-19
By Cindy Liu and Prak Chan Thul STUNG TRENG, Cambodia (Reuters) - Researchers are collecting samples from bats in northern Cambodia in a bid to understand the coronavirus pandemic, returning to a regi...
Sep 19, 2021
Scientists in Singapore transform fruit leftovers into antibacterial bandages
By Travis Teo and Lee Ying Shan (Reuters) - Scientists at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore are tackling food waste by turning discarded durian husks into antibacterial gel bandages....
Sep 19, 2021
SpaceX capsule with world’s first all-civilian orbital crew set for splashdown
By Steve Gorman (Reuters) - The quartet of newly minted citizen astronauts comprising the SpaceX Inspiration4 mission were due to splash down in the Atlantic off Florida on Saturday, completing a thre...
Sep 18, 2021
All-civilian Inspiration4 crew shows off in zero-gravity orbit
By Steve Gorman (Reuters) - A 42-year-old data engineer on the first all-civilian astronaut crew to reach orbit made some spaceflight history on Friday, with a zero-gravity ukulele performance in a Sp...
Sep 17, 2021
Study rewrites understanding of modern Japan’s genetic ancestry
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - An analysis of ancient DNA is transforming the understanding of the genetic ancestry of Japan's modern-day population, identifying a crucial contribution from people who arr...
Sep 17, 2021
