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Italy reports 316 coronavirus deaths on Monday, 8,864 new cases
MILAN (Reuters) - Italy reported 316 coronavirus-related deaths on Monday against 251 the day before, the health ministry said, while the daily tally of new infections fell to 8,864 from 12,694. Italy...
Apr 19, 2021
WHO says world seeing increased COVID-19 cases across all age groups
GENEVA (Reuters) - A leading epidemiologist at the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday the latest rise in COVID-19 infections worldwide reflected increases among all age groups. "We are see...
Apr 19, 2021
NASA’s Mars helicopter makes history with successful flight on Red Planet
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NASA's miniature robot helicopter Ingenuity performed a successful takeoff and landing on Mars early on Monday, achieving the first powered, controlled flight by an aircraft ov...
Apr 19, 2021
Mars helicopter flight test promises Wright Brothers moment for NASA
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NASA hopes to score a 21st-century Wright Brothers moment on Monday as it attempts to send a miniature helicopter buzzing over the surface of Mars in what would...
Apr 18, 2021
Three astronauts return from International Space Station
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Three members of the International Space Station's crew returned safely to Earth on Saturday on a Russian Soyuz craft, Russia's Roscosmos space agency reported. The Soyuz MS-17 spac...
Apr 17, 2021
Scientists find only 3% of land areas unblemished by humans
By Kanupriya Kapoor SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Very little of today's world resembles Planet Earth from 500 years ago. In fact, only about 3% of land surfaces might be ecologically intact -- still home to ...
Apr 16, 2021
SpaceX wins U.S. contract for spacecraft to send astronauts to moon: Washington Post
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA has awarded Elon Musk's SpaceX a contract to build a spacecraft to fly astronauts to the moon, bypassing Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and defense contractor Dynetics Inc, the Wa...
Apr 16, 2021
‘Like Godzilla, but actually real’: study shows T. rex numbered 2.5 billion
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If one Tyrannosaurus rex - the school bus-sized meat-eating dinosaur that stalked the Cretaceous Period landscape - seems impressive, how about 2.5 billion of the...
Apr 15, 2021
Exclusive: New zinc-fortified wheat set for global expansion to combat malnutrition
By David Alire Garcia MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Scientists at a leading global grains research institute expect to sharply ramp up new wheat varieties enriched with zinc that can boost the essential min...
Apr 15, 2021
UAE partners with Japan’s iSpace to send rover to the moon in 2022
DUBAI (Reuters) - Japanese space company iSpace will transport a United Arab emirates rover to the moon in 2022, the company announced on Wednesday. Under the agreement, iSpace said it would also prov...
Apr 14, 2021
