Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) Science News (Master Feed)
Archaeologists in Peru unveil 3,500-year-old city that linked coast and Andes
LIMA (Reuters) -Archaeologists on Thursday unveiled a 3,500-year-old city in Peru that likely served as a trading hub linking Pacific coast cultures with those in the Andes and Amazon, flourishing aro...
Thomson Reuters Jul 03, 2025
A water-saving tool in drought-hit Chile: human hair
SANTIAGO (Reuters) -Small mats of human hair line the base of plants, helping lock in moisture for crops in orchards around Chile that have been struggling with drought for years. The hair, which is t...
Thomson Reuters Jul 03, 2025
Ancient Egyptian man's genome reveals his society's cross-cultural ties
By Will Dunham (Reuters) -DNA obtained from the remains of a man who lived in ancient Egypt around the time the first pyramids were built is providing evidence of the ties between two great cultures o...
Thomson Reuters Jul 02, 2025
Astronomers get picture of aftermath of a star's double detonation
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times the mass of our sun that exhausts its ...
Thomson Reuters Jul 02, 2025
It’s too easy to make AI chatbots lie about health information, study finds
By Christine Soares (Reuters) -Well-known AI chatbots can be configured to routinely answer health queries with false information that appears authoritative, complete with fake citations from real med...
Thomson Reuters Jul 01, 2025
Exclusive-Bezos-backed methane tracking satellite is lost in space
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) -An $88 million satellite backed by billionaire Jeff Bezos that detected oil and gas industry's emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas methane has been lost...
Thomson Reuters Jul 01, 2025
Chile observatory captures the universe with 3,200-megapixel camera
SANTIAGO (Reuters) -Chile's Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which boasts the world's largest digital camera, has begun displaying its first images of the cosmos, allowing astronomers to figure out how the ...
Thomson Reuters Jun 27, 2025
Rocks in Canada's Quebec province found to be the oldest on Earth
By Will Dunham (Reuters) -Along the eastern shore of Hudson Bay in Canada's northeastern province of Quebec, near the Inuit municipality of Inukjuak, resides a belt of volcanic rock that displays a bl...
Thomson Reuters Jun 26, 2025
Zurich researchers pioneer rare earth e-waste recycling
By Cecile Mantovani and Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA (Reuters) -Researchers at ETH University in Zurich have developed a new method to efficiently recover rare earth elements from electronic waste, advan...
Thomson Reuters Jun 26, 2025
With a primitive canoe, scientists replicate prehistoric seafaring
By Will Dunham (Reuters) -Our species arose in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago and later trekked worldwide, eventually reaching some of Earth's most remote places. In doing so, our ancestors surmount...
Thomson Reuters Jun 25, 2025




