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Protecting 1.2% of Earth would prevent most extinctions, study says
By Jake Spring SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Setting aside an additional 1.2% of the world's land as nature preserves would prevent the majority of predicted plant and animal extinctions and cost about $263 b...
Jun 25, 2024
China's Chang'e-6 moon probe lands back on Earth
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Chang'e-6 lunar probe landed on Tuesday in the northern Chinese region of Inner Mongolia, making the country the first to bring back samples from the moon's far side. The r...
Jun 25, 2024
Sino-French satellite launched into orbit, China's CCTV says
SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) - A satellite developed by China and France, the most powerful yet for studying the farthest explosion of stars, was launched into orbit on Saturday, Chinese state broadcast...
Jun 22, 2024
Boeing's Starliner return to Earth delayed indefinitely
(Reuters) - NASA and Boeing indefinitely postponed the Starliner spacecraft's return from the International Space Station to Earth, NASA said on Friday. (Reporting by Mrinmay Dey and Joey Roulette; Ed...
Jun 21, 2024
Ancient pig-like animal shows beginnings of mammalian brain evolution
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - More than 250 million years ago, Scotland was not veiled in mist and rain, as it often is today, but rather a desert blanketed in sand dunes. One of the denizens of this cha...
Jun 21, 2024
Antiquities returning to Mexico include Mayan vase sold for $4 in US store
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The Mexican government will welcome back 20 cultural artifacts that date to the country's storied ancient past, all found in the United States including a Mayan vase over 1,000...
Jun 20, 2024
Fossils of ancient crocodile-like reptile found in Brazil
BRASILIA (Reuters) - A Brazilian scientist has identified fossils of a small crocodile-like reptile that lived during the Triassic Period several million years before the first dinosaurs. The fossils ...
Jun 20, 2024
Dinosaur from Montana had horns like Norse god Loki's blades
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 78 million years ago in what was then a subtropical coastal plain - now the badlands of northern Montana - lived a four-legged plant-eating dinosaur built a...
Jun 20, 2024
European lynx species rebounds from brink of extinction
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - A species of lynx found in remote areas of Spain and Portugal has rebounded from near extinction, with its adult population growing more than tenfold since the start o...
Jun 20, 2024
Boeing Starliner's crewed return to Earth pushed to June 26
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Boeing Starliner's return to Earth from the International Space Station with its first crew of astronauts has been pushed back to June 26, a NASA official said Tuesday. NASA astr...
Jun 18, 2024
