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Titans’ COVID count at 24 after two more positives
More positive COVID-19 tests on Tuesday are forcing the Tennessee Titans to cancel their planned return to the field on Wednesday. ESPN reported two players tested positive after the Titans had two co...
Oct 07, 2020
Charpentier and Doudna win 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Scientists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of a method for genome editing, the award-giving body said on Wedn...
Oct 07, 2020
Biogen, gene-editing startup Scribe to develop therapies for Lou Gehrig’s disease
(Reuters) - U.S. drugmaker Biogen Inc and gene-editing startup Scribe Therapeutics Inc will jointly develop therapies for treating underlying genetic causes of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a f...
Oct 06, 2020
Black hole discoveries win 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Britain's Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel of Germany and U.S. scientist Andrea Ghez won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics for their discoveries about one of the most exotic phenome...
Oct 06, 2020
Musk’s SpaceX wins Pentagon award for missile tracking satellites
By Joey Roulette (Reuters) - Elon Musk's SpaceX won a $149 million contract to build missile-tracking satellites for the Pentagon, the U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA) said on Monday, in the compan...
Oct 05, 2020
Musk to visit SpaceX launchpad after mission aborts, delays
(Reuters) - SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk said he will visit his space company's Florida rocket facilities this week to investigate the cause of recent launch aborts and delays that have held up a ...
Oct 05, 2020
Scientists who helped identify Hepatitis C virus win 2020 Nobel Medicine Prize
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Two American and one British-born scientist won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for work in identifying the Hepatitis C virus, which causes cirrhosis and liver ca...
Oct 05, 2020
Egypt unveils 59 ancient coffins in major archaeological discovery
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt on Saturday put on show dozens of coffins belonging to priests and clerks from the 26th dynasty nearly 2,500 years ago, with archaeologists saying tens more were found in the v...
Oct 03, 2020
French ‘Alzheimer’s village’: where nursing home meets the outside world
By Emilie Delwarde DAX, France (Reuters) - Residents of the purpose-built village near Dax in southwestern France shop for groceries, get pampered at the hair salon and enjoy music recitals just like ...
Oct 01, 2020
David Attenborough leads call for world to invest $500 billion a year to protect nature
By Matthew Green LONDON (Reuters) - British broadcaster David Attenborough led a call from conservation groups on Wednesday for the world to invest $500 billion a year to halt the destruction of natur...
Sep 30, 2020
