Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) Science News (Master Feed)
China sends satellites into space in first sea-based commercial launch
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has successfully sent nine satellites into orbit in its first commercial launch of a rocket from a platform at sea, state media reported on Wednesday. The satellites, one of ...
Sep 16, 2020
California wildfire threatens Mount Wilson Observatory and communications hub
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Firefighters waged an all-out ground and air campaign on Tuesday to save the famed Mount Wilson Observatory and an adjacent hub of communications towers from a ...
Sep 15, 2020
European space agency signs deal for asteroid defence mission
DARMSTADT, Germany (Reuters) - The European space agency (ESA) signed a deal worth 129 million euros ($154 million) on Tuesday to make a spacecraft for a joint project with NASA looking at how to defl...
Sep 15, 2020
Flu outbreaks may be linked to COVID-19; arthritis drug benefit seen
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 14, 2020
Scientists create gene-edited animals as ‘surrogate sires’ to boost food production
By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have created gene-edited pigs, goats and cattle to produce sperm with traits such as disease resistance and higher meat quality in what they say is a step...
Sep 14, 2020
Potential sign of alien life detected on inhospitable Venus
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists said on Monday they have detected in the harshly acidic clouds of Venus a gas called phosphine that indicates microbes may inhabit Earth's inhospitable...
Sep 14, 2020
UAE, Israeli educational institutions sign artificial intelligence MoU: WAM
DUBAI (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates' Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence and Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science have agreed to work together, UAE state news agency WAM s...
Sep 13, 2020
Scientists confounded by new findings on universe’s mysterious dark matter
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dark matter, mysterious invisible stuff that makes up most of the mass of galaxies including our own Milky Way, is confounding scientists again, with new observat...
Sep 11, 2020
Japan space agency delays H3 rocket flight due to technical issues
TOKYO (Reuters) - The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said on Friday that it was delaying the maiden flight of its H3 Launch Vehicle rocket, citing a technical problem identified with the ne...
Sep 11, 2020
NASA sets out to buy moon resources mined by private companies
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA on Thursday launched an effort to pay companies to mine resources on the moon, announcing it would buy from them rocks, dirt and other lunar materials as t...
Sep 10, 2020
