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Researchers document huge drop in African elephants in a half century
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - African elephants are Earth's largest land animals, remarkable mammals that are very intelligent and highly social. They also are in peril. Fresh evidence of this comes in a...
Nov 11, 2024
Scientists uncover a magnetic misunderstanding about Uranus
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope. This frigid planet, our solar system...
Nov 11, 2024
Trump victory expected to boost Musk's Mars dream
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Elon Musk's dream of transporting humans to Mars will become a bigger national priority under the administration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, sources s...
Nov 08, 2024
Chinese rover helps find evidence of ancient Martian shoreline
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With the assistance of China's Zhurong rover, scientists have gathered fresh evidence that Mars was home to an ocean billions of years ago - a far cry from the dr...
Nov 07, 2024
Webb telescope reveals rapid growth of primordial black hole
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called Sagittarius A*. In fact, these objects, ...
Nov 05, 2024
US startup Axiom Space explores using Indian rockets for space mission
By Nivedita Bhattacharjee NEW DELHI (Reuters) - U.S.-based startup Axiom Space is exploring using Indian launch vehicles to support its international space station mission, a senior executive said on ...
Nov 05, 2024
World's first wooden satellite, developed in Japan, heads to space
By Kantaro Komiya and Irene Wang KYOTO (Reuters) - The world's first wooden satellite, built by Japanese researchers, was launched into space on Tuesday, in an early test of using timber in lunar and ...
Nov 04, 2024
Russia launches Soyuz rocket with dozens of satellites, including two from Iran
(Reuters) - Russia launched a Soyuz rocket early on Tuesday carrying two satellites designed to monitor the space weather around Earth and 53 small satellites, including two Iranian ones, Russia's Ros...
Nov 04, 2024
Scientists in Argentina unearth oldest tadpole, from dinosaur times
By Miguel Lo Bianco BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Scientists in Argentina have discovered excellently preserved fossil remains of the oldest-known tadpole, the larval stage of a large frog species that liv...
Oct 30, 2024
Scientists rebuild the face of 400-year-old Polish 'vampire'
By Thomas Holdstock PIEN, Poland (Reuters) - Buried with a padlock on her foot and an iron sickle across her neck, "Zosia" was never supposed to be able to come back from the dead. Entombed in an unma...
Oct 30, 2024
