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By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) -Human skin cells may one day be used to create functional human eggs in a step toward helping women have their own genetic children when their natural eggs are dysfunctional,...

TIERRA AMARILLA (Reuters) -Residents in the mining town of Tierra Amarilla in the Chilean desert are hopeful that a new court ruling will allay their fears about a giant sinkhole that opened near thei...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The moon is sometimes called "two-faced" because the surface of its side perpetually facing away from Earth looks so different than its side always facing our plan...

By Will Dunham (Reuters) -About 12,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers who inhabited a swathe of Arabian desert carved life-sized images of camels and other animals on sandstone cliffs and boulders, using...

By Tim Hepher PARIS (Reuters) -French companies are fine-tuning plans for stratospheric spy balloons and airships as competition heats up in the no man's land between the atmosphere and outer space, t...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Firefly Aerospace on Monday said the core booster for its centerpiece Alpha rocket was destroyed during a ground test in Texas, weeks before that rocket was due for a long-awaite...

THE HAGUE (Reuters) -The Netherlands said it would give back a major fossil collection to Indonesia, granting its former colony's request to recover historical artefacts, including bones of the "Java ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed a white dwarf - a highly compact stellar ember - that appears to have gobbled up an icy world akin to th...

By Miranda Murray BERLIN (Reuters) -A senior official from the European Space Agency said mergers could be needed to reach the scale to compete with U.S. and Chinese rivals, but that too much concentr...

By Will Dunham (Reuters) -In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that it was hard to gauge its significance. A new anal...