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JPMorgan’s blockchain payments test is literally out of this world
By Anna Irrera LONDON (Reuters) - Stuck in space with bills to pay? Don't worry, the satellites could take care of it. JPMorgan Chase & Co has recently tested blockchain payments between satellites or...
Feb 24, 2021
Battered stones of Jerusalem’s Western Wall get the full treatment
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The ancient stones that make up Jerusalem's Western Wall are showing the scars of weathering from two millennia of scorching sunlight and driving rain. To stop them getting worse...
Feb 23, 2021
Mars rover sends home movie of daredevil descent to landing on red planet
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NASA scientists on Monday unveiled first-of-a-kind home movies of last week's' daredevil Mars rover landing, vividly showing its supersonic parachute inflation ...
Feb 22, 2021
Pregnant women being infected at higher rates; COVID-19 from UK variant lasting longer
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 ...
Feb 22, 2021
Chinese state fund invests in gene firm BGI
By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) - The Chinese government has made an investment in BGI Genomics Co, a listed Chinese company that has supplied millions of COVID-19 tests globally as the gene firm s...
Feb 21, 2021
‘Something we’ve never seen’ – Mars rover beams back selfie from moment before landing
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NASA scientists on Friday presented striking early images from the picture-perfect landing of the Mars rover Perseverance, including a selfie of the six-wheeled...
Feb 19, 2021
COVID-19 heart problems may persist for months; smartphone oxygen meters prove helpful
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 ...
Feb 19, 2021
Elizabeth Ann, the first cloned ferret, spurs hope for endangered U.S. species
(Reuters) - U.S. scientists have successfully cloned an endangered black-footed ferret using frozen cells from a long-dead wild animal, the first time any native endangered species has been cloned in ...
Feb 19, 2021
New look at first black hole detected shows it is bigger than expected
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A fresh examination has revealed new details about the first black hole ever detected - which was spotted in 1964 and became the subject of a friendly wager betwe...
Feb 18, 2021
Bosnian villagers cheer as NASA attempts to land on namesake lake on Mars
SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Schoolchildren in the Bosnian village of Jezero waited with great excitement for an attempt by NASA on Thursday to land on an ancient lake bed on Mars which is named after their t...
Feb 18, 2021
