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Planet Earth its quietest in decades as lockdowns reduce seismic noise
ZURICH (Reuters) - Earth had its quietest period in decades during 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic significantly reduced human activity and its impact on the planet's crust, according to scientists work...
Feb 18, 2021
NASA rover Perseverance hurtles toward historic landing attempt on Mars
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NASA's Mars rover Perseverance hurtled into the final stretch of its seven-month journey from Earth en route to a nail-biting landing attempt Thursday on an anc...
Feb 18, 2021
UK variant not causing worse illness in children; COVID-19 breath test shows promise
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 17, 2021
Teeth from Siberian mammoths yield oldest DNA ever recovered
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have recovered the oldest DNA on record, extracting it from the molars of mammoths that roamed northeastern Siberia up to 1.2 million years ago in rese...
Feb 17, 2021
NASA rover Perseverance on track for daredevil landing on Mars
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NASA's Mars rover Perseverance, the most advanced robotic astrobiology lab ever flown to another world, neared the end of its seven-month, 293-million-mile (470...
Feb 17, 2021
Want to be an astronaut? Europe is recruiting for the first time in 11 years
BERLIN (Reuters) - Europe is to recruit new astronauts for the first time in 11 years as leading space-faring nations set their sights on missions to the Moon and, eventually, Mars. The European Space...
Feb 16, 2021
Another small step: Tiny Hungarian water-tracker aims to rove the Moon
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - A miniature rover being developed to explore the Moon's surface is on track to join the search for water there, its Hungarian inventors believe - using a device that weighs less t...
Feb 16, 2021
NASA rover faces ‘seven minutes of terror’ before landing on Mars
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - When NASA's Mars rover Perseverance, a robotic astrobiology lab packed inside a space capsule, hits the final stretch of its seven-month journey from Earth this...
Feb 14, 2021
Vaccinated COVID-19 patients appear less contagious; arthritis drug in spotlight
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 12, 2021
New Year blessings from Mars as China releases footage from space probe
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's space agency released two videos providing a close-up glimpse of Mars on Friday, captured as its Tianwen-1 probe entered the red planet's orbit, saying the spacecraft was s...
Feb 12, 2021
