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Automakers pledge to work with Biden to reduce emissions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group representing major automakers on Tuesday vowed to work with President-elect Joe Biden on efforts to reduce vehicle emissions even as the industry remains split over an e...
Dec 01, 2020
Massive Puerto Rico telescope collapses
By Joey Roulette (Reuters) - The massive telescope at Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory that had been deteriorating since August collapsed on Tuesday, officials said, after 57 years of astronomical di...
Dec 01, 2020
China successfully lands spacecraft on moon to retrieve lunar rocks
BEIJING (Reuters) - China successfully landed a spacecraft on the moon's surface on Tuesday in a historic mission to retrieve lunar surface samples, Chinese state media reported. China launched its Ch...
Dec 01, 2020
Australian telescope maps deep space at record speed
By Sonali Paul MELBOURNE (Reuters) - A powerful new telescope in outback Australia has mapped vast areas of the universe in record-breaking time, revealing a million new galaxies and opening the way t...
Dec 01, 2020
Ravens game at Steelers postponed due to COVID-19 outbreak
(Reuters) - The Baltimore Ravens' game versus hosts Pittsburgh Steelers has been moved to Tuesday from Sunday because of a COVID-19 outbreak within the visiting team, ESPN reported on Friday. The matc...
Nov 27, 2020
Russia should look again at terms of ISS participation – space industry official
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia should consider revising the terms of its participation in the International Space Station, a Russian space industry executive said on Thursday, because it wants to focus on ...
Nov 26, 2020
Slow and steady or a big spurt? How to grow a ferocious dinosaur
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Large meat-eating dinosaurs attained their great size through very different growth strategies, with some taking a slow and steady path and others experiencing an...
Nov 26, 2020
Dinosaur-era bird with scythe-like beak sheds light on avian diversity
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A delicate but exquisitely preserved skull of a crow-sized bird with a scythe-like beak that inhabited Madagascar 68 million years ago is showing scientists that ...
Nov 25, 2020
SpaceX to press ahead with Starlink tests, delays commercial service
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - SpaceX will continue beta testing its satellite-based broadband service Starlink into next year, the company said late Tuesday, indicating commercial service wo...
Nov 25, 2020
Egyptian inventor trials robot that can test for COVID-19
TANTA, Egypt (Reuters) - With Egypt facing a second coronavirus wave, an inventor is trialing a remote-control robot which can test for COVID-19, take the temperature of patients, and warn them if the...
Nov 25, 2020
