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Marine creature dubbed ‘the mothership’ was primordial scourge
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - About 506 million years ago, a strange marine creature whose body so resembled a science-fiction spacecraft that it has been dubbed 'the mothership' thrived in tropical seas...
Sep 08, 2021
Eni completes ‘landmark’ test in energy fusion project
MILAN (Reuters) - Italian energy group Eni said on Wednesday a test marking a landmark in efforts to produce energy from magnetically confined fusion had been successfully completed by its Massachuset...
Sep 08, 2021
NASA rover Perseverance collects first Martian rock sample
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NASA's Mars science rover Perseverance has collected and stashed away the first of numerous mineral samples that the U.S. space agency hopes to retrieve from th...
Sep 07, 2021
New kidney problems linked to ‘long COVID’; loss of smell may be followed by other smell distortions
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...
Sep 03, 2021
U.S. grounds Virgin Galactic flights pending mishap probe
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Thursday barred Virgin Galactic from flying its SpaceShipTwo until the agency approves its final mishap inve...
Sep 02, 2021
U.S. bars Virgin Galactic rocket plane flights pending mishap probe
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Thursday barred Virgin Galactic from flying its SpaceShipTwo until the agency approves its final mishap investiga...
Sep 02, 2021
China develops prototype miniature helicopter for Mars missions
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has developed a prototype miniature helicopter for surveillance work on future Mars missions, according to its space science agency, following the historic landing of a robot...
Sep 02, 2021
U.S. aviation regulator probing Branson’s Virgin Galactic flight deviation
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said Wednesday it is investigating a deviation in the descent of the flight of the Virgin Galactic rocket plane...
Sep 01, 2021
U.S. FAA probing Virgin Galactic July 11 flight deviation
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said Wednesday it is investigating the deviation of the descent of the July 11 flight of the Virgin Galactic rocket plane that car...
Sep 01, 2021
Don’t look now: How a robot’s gaze can affect the human brain
By Stuart McDill (Reuters) - It has long been known that making eye contact with a robot can be an unsettling experience. Scientists even have a name for the queasy feeling: the "uncanny valley". Now,...
Sep 01, 2021
