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U.S. astronaut crew on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon to cast ballots from space
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three NASA astronauts launching next month on SpaceX's first operational Crew Dragon mission plan to vote in the upcoming presidential election from the Interna...
Sep 29, 2020
Zimbabwe plans to send dead elephants’ brain tissue to U.S. for toxin tests
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe plans to send brain tissue samples from dead elephants to the United States to test for toxic micro-organisms blamed for hundreds of elephant deaths in neighbouring Botswan...
Sep 29, 2020
Australian firm says its nasal spray reduced coronavirus growth in animal study
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian biotech company Ena Respiratory said on Monday that a nasal spray it is developing to improve the human immune system to fight common cold and flu significantly reduced t...
Sep 27, 2020
SpaceX handed loss in challenge over Air Force contract
By Joey Roulette (Reuters) - A federal judge plans to deny SpaceX's challenge to U.S. Air Force contracts awarded to its rivals, writing in a Thursday court filing that the Pentagon properly assessed ...
Sep 25, 2020
Colombian miners strike fossilized gold: a mastodon
By Camilo Cohecha BOGOTA (Reuters) - Fossils of a mastodon, a giant prehistoric relative of today's elephants, have been discovered at an artisanal gold mine in central Colombia in a find which resear...
Sep 24, 2020
Remains of Jurassic sea predator found in Chile’s Atacama desert
By Natalia A. Ramos Miranda (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed the remains of Jurassic sea predators resembling killer whales in the world's driest desert in Chile. Pliosaurs were reptiles from abo...
Sep 24, 2020
Reptile dubbed ‘Jaws of Death’ terrorized Cretaceous seas
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Roughly 80 million years ago in the shallow inland sea that once split North America into eastern and western land masses, a fearsome 33-foot-long (10-meter-long)...
Sep 23, 2020
Kenya harnesses fly larvae’s appetite to process food waste
By George Obulutsa LIMURU, Kenya (Reuters) - Rotten bananas? Mushy avocados? Pulped oranges? Talash Huijbers wants them all. The 25-year-old is the founder of Insectipro, a Kenyan farm rearing black s...
Sep 23, 2020
Dutch ‘living coffin’ aims to provide source for life after death
DELFT (Reuters) - A Dutch start-up has created a biodegradable "living coffin" made of a fungus, instead of wood, which it says can convert a decomposing human body into key nutrients for plants. The ...
Sep 22, 2020
Egypt discovers 27 sarcophagi more than 2,500 years old
CAIRO (Reuters) - Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered 27 stone coffins at the ancient necropolis of Saqqara, a burial ground that is also home to one of the world's oldest pyramids, the ministry o...
Sep 21, 2020
