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Remdesivir appears safe for seriously ill children; patients may not pose highest risk to hospital staff
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by ...
Apr 21, 2021
Keeping up with T. Rex was easy, Dutch researchers say
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Unlike its popular movie incarnations, Tyrannosaurus rex - the giant meat-eating dinosaur from the Cretaceous period - walked slower than previously thought, most likely ambling ...
Apr 21, 2021
EU should make better use of its space assets, auditors say
By Marine Strauss BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union has not done enough to capitalise on its 18 billion euro ($21.6 billion) space programmes, including its Galileo satellite positioning system ...
Apr 21, 2021
Robots to fan out across world’s oceans to monitor their health
By Nathan Frandino MOSS LANDING, California (Reuters) - After years studying the icy waters of the Southern Ocean with floating robotic monitors, a consortium of oceanographers and other researchers i...
Apr 21, 2021
Australian academics enlist amateur scientists to study microplastics
By James Redmayne SYDNEY (Reuters) - Equipped with just a pan and sieve, a group of amateur scientists comb the beach looking for tiny bits of plastic that are near invisible to the naked eye but beli...
Apr 20, 2021
China plans $3 billion supercomputing centre to analyse data from space
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's southern space port of Wenchang will build a $3 billion supercomputing centre by year-end to analyse data obtained from space, according to state media on Tuesday. With a p...
Apr 20, 2021
Physical inactivity tied to higher COVID-19 risk; new trial attempts to reinfect virus survivors
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by ...
Apr 19, 2021
A rediscovered forgotten species brews promise for coffee’s future
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - In dense tropical forests in Sierra Leone, scientists have rediscovered a coffee species not seen in the wild in decades - a plant they say may help secure the future of thi...
Apr 19, 2021
Scientists in Chile discover remains of plant-eating dinosaur amid world´s driest desert
By Fabian Cambero SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Scientists in Chile's parched Atacama desert, the world's driest, have discovered the remains of a previously unknown species of dinosaur that millions of years ...
Apr 19, 2021
Amazon secures ULA’s satellite launch vehicles for Project Kuiper
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc said on Monday it had secured nine satellite launch vehicles from United Launch Alliance (ULA) to support its space internet initiative, Project Kuiper. Atlas V launch vehic...
Apr 19, 2021
