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If you do not snooze you lose: sleep seen as essential for the brain
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists are providing a fuller understanding of the essential role that sleep plays in brain health, identifying an abrupt transition at about 2.4 years of age...
Sep 18, 2020
T cell shortage linked to severe COVID-19 in elderly; antiseptic spray may limit virus spread
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 ...
Sep 18, 2020
Ig Nobel science award: An alligator on helium sounds like …?
(Reuters) - If humans sound like Minnie Mouse after inhaling helium, would an alligator squeak on the gas used to float balloons? This profound puzzle challenged a global research team to record an al...
Sep 18, 2020
China aims to operate regular space flights by 2045, official says
BEIJING (Reuters) - China aims to set up a space programme operating thousands of flights a year and carrying tens of thousands of tons of cargo and passengers by 2045, state news agency Xinhua quoted...
Sep 18, 2020
The future is cyborg: Kaspersky study finds support for human augmentation
LONDON (Reuters) - Nearly two thirds of people in leading Western European countries would consider augmenting the human body with technology to improve their lives, mostly to improve health, accordin...
Sep 17, 2020
NASA mulls possible mission to Venus after recent discovery of possible life
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA is considering approving by next April up to two planetary science missions from four proposals under review, including one to Venus that scientists involv...
Sep 16, 2020
Common public screening methods unreliable; student athletes may need heart test after COVID-19
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 ...
Sep 16, 2020
Girl power in the deep blue sea: World’s largest fish are female
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Male and female whale sharks - filter-feeding marine behemoths - grow at different rates, with females doing so more slowly but getting much larger than the guys,...
Sep 16, 2020
One of largest known T. rex skeletons up for auction at Christie’s
By Mimi Dwyer and Roselle Chen (Reuters) - The British auction house Christie's plans to sell the skeleton of one of the largest known Tyrannosaurus rexes in early October, the company said on Wednesd...
Sep 16, 2020
Hyundai Samho delivers world’s first LNG-powered very large container ship
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries Co Ltd said on Wednesday it had delivered the world's first very large container ship powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG) t...
Sep 16, 2020
