- Solar plane lands at Washington on journey across U.S. (Reuters) – An airplane entirely powered by the sun landed in Washington on Sunday after a flight from St. Louis, the next-to-last leg of a journey across the United States intended to boost support for clean energy technologies. Like this:Like Loading...
- Exclusive: Antitrust probe of Lockheed-Boeing rocket venture WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. regulators have opened a probe into whether a Lockheed-Boeing joint venture that launches U.S. government satellites into space has flouted antitrust laws. Like this:Like Loading...
- Japan mulls hosting global collider project – Nikkei (Reuters) – The government has decided to solicit construction in Japan of the International Linear Collider (ILC), a next-generation particle accelerator that will allow physicists to explore rudimentary questions about the universe, the Nikkei said. Like this:Like Loading...
- Restrictive drug laws censor science, researchers say LONDON (Reuters) – The outlawing of drugs such as cannabis, magic mushrooms and other psychoactive substances amounts to scientific censorship and is hampering research into potentially important medicinal uses, leading scientists argued on Wednesday. Like this:Like Loading...
- China’s latest ‘sacred’ manned space mission blasts off BEIJING (Reuters) – A Chinese manned spacecraft blasted off with three astronauts on board on Tuesday on a 15-day mission to an experimental space lab in the latest step towards the development of a space station. Like this:Like Loading...
- China’s latest manned space mission to launch June 11 BEIJING (Reuters) – China will launch its next manned space flight on Tuesday, carrying three astronauts on a 15-day mission to an experimental space lab, the National Space Administration said, in the latest step towards the development of a space sta… Like this:Like Loading...
- Weather satellite revived after suspected micrometeoroid hit CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – A weather satellite that failed just before the start of an expected busy hurricane season is back in service, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said on Monday. Like this:Like Loading...
- Opinion: Congress to vet grant applications? Will they also hold our test tubes for us? Like this:Like Loading...
- In Alaska’s oilfields, drones countdown to takeoff (Reuters) – No pilot was required when the Aeryon Scout took off into the leaden skies of Alaska to inspect a stretch of oil pipeline. The miniature aircraft was guided by an engineer on the ground, armed only with a tablet computer. Like this:Like Loading...
- Second rover finds hint of a life-friendly ancient Mars CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – A Martian rock analyzed by NASA’s rover Opportunity contains clays formed in non-acidic water, an environment potentially suitable for the chemistry of ancient life to brew. Like this:Like Loading...
- Asteroid the size of a small truck buzzes Earth: NASA CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – An asteroid the size of a small truck zoomed past Earth four times closer than the moon on Saturday, the latest in a parade of visiting celestial objects that has raised awareness of potentially hazardous impacts on … Like this:Like Loading...
- U.S. management of wild horses flawed, scientific report finds SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – A federal agency working to rein in the population of wild horses in the West should rely more on fertility control than roundups because it would be more effective, a National Academy of Sciences review said on Wednesday. Like this:Like Loading...
- Russian Arctic-mapping satellite malfunctions: Ifax MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian satellite launched last year to map the Arctic has stopped working, a space industry source told the Interfax news agency on Thursday, in the latest disappointment for the country’s once-pioneering space program. Like this:Like Loading...
- U.S. farmer lawsuit filed against Monsanto over GMO wheat (Reuters) – American wheat farmers and a food safety advocacy group filed a lawsuit Thursday against biotech seed developer Monsanto Co, accusing the company of failing to protect the U.S. wheat market from contamination by its unauthorized wheat. Like this:Like Loading...
- Kansas wheat farmer sues Monsanto over rogue wheat release (Reuters) – A U.S. wheat farmer has sued Monsanto Co, accusing the biotech seed giant of gross negligence for not containing an experimental genetically modified wheat discovered in an Oregon field that has put U.S. wheat export sales at risk. Like this:Like Loading...
- Genomics and particle physics top the scientific charts LONDON (Reuters) – Genomics and particle physics – offering different perspectives on the fundamental nature of life and the cosmos – are the two hottest areas of scientific research. Like this:Like Loading...
- Fetch! Robot retrievers compete in $1.5 million NASA contest BOSTON (Reuters) – Eleven robots faced off in a Massachusetts field on Wednesday, showing off their ability to independently track down objects in a hunt for $1.5 million in prize money at a NASA-sponsored contest aimed at speeding technological develo… Like this:Like Loading...
- Nobel contender sees multiple cosmic mysteries GENEVA (Reuters) – Francois Englert, the Belgian physicist widely tipped to share a Nobel prize this year with Britain’s Peter Higgs, said on Tuesday many cosmic mysteries remain despite the discovery of the boson that gave shape to the universe. Like this:Like Loading...
- China’s latest manned space mission to launch this month BEIJING (Reuters) – China will launch its next manned rocket in the middle of this month, carrying three astronauts to an experimental space module, state media said on Monday, the latest stage of an ambitious plan to build a space station. Like this:Like Loading...
- Trip to Mars would likely exceed radiation limits for astronauts CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – Radiation levels measured by NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover show astronauts likely would exceed current U.S. exposure limits during a roundtrip mission to Mars, scientists said on Thursday. Like this:Like Loading...
- Large asteroid, with small moon in tow, to fly by Earth CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – A large asteroid accompanied by its own small moon was approaching Earth on Friday, the latest in a string of celestial visitors drawing attention to the potential dangers of objects in space. Like this:Like Loading...
- Asteroid mining company wants to put your face in space CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – A privately owned asteroid mining firm, backed in part by Google Inc’s founders, launched a crowd-funding project on Wednesday to gauge public interest in a small space telescope that could serve as a backdrop for pe… Like this:Like Loading...
- International crew takes short cut to space station CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – A Russian spaceship took a shortcut to the International Space Station on Tuesday, delivering a veteran cosmonaut, a rookie Italian astronaut and an American mother on her second flight to the outpost in less than si… Like this:Like Loading...
- International crew blasts off for space station CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – A veteran Russian cosmonaut, a rookie Italian astronaut and an American mother on her second flight blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Tuesday for a six-hour ride to the International Space Sta… Like this:Like Loading...
- The formula for turning cement into metal In a move that would make the Alchemists of King Arthur’s time green with envy, scientists have unraveled the formula for turning liquid cement into liquid metal. This makes cement a semi-conductor and opens up its use in the profitable consumer electr… Like this:Like Loading...
- Going inside the machinery and machinations of working in science You get a degree, you get an academic job. Then what? Like this:Like Loading...
- Solar plane completes second leg of cross-country flight in Texas DALLAS (Reuters) – A solar airplane that developers hope to eventually pilot around the globe landed safely on Thursday in Texas, completing the second and longest leg of an attempt to fly across the United States powered only by the sun. Like this:Like Loading...
- Planetary alignment peaks with celestial show this weekend CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – Venus and Jupiter, the two brightest planets in the sky this month, will be joined by tiny Mercury for a rare celestial show this weekend. Like this:Like Loading...
- Rocket lifts off with U.S. military communications satellite CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – An unmanned Delta 4 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Friday to put a multi-use, broadband communications satellite into orbit for the U.S. military. Like this:Like Loading...
- NASA puts shuttle launch pad in Florida up for lease CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – Nearly two years after space shuttle Atlantis blasted off for the last time, NASA on Thursday put out a “For Lease” notice for one of its shuttle launch pads in Florida. Like this:Like Loading...
- Commercial human ventures planned for the moon: NASA study CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – Corporate researchers may be living on the moon by the time NASA astronauts head off to visit an asteroid in the 2020s, a study of future human missions unveiled on Thursday shows. Like this:Like Loading...
- NASA investing in 3-D food printer for astronauts CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – In a scene right out of Star Trek, a Texas company is developing a 3-D food printer for astronauts to create custom meals on the fly. Like this:Like Loading...
- U.S. industry touts ‘drone’ promise as public debate flares WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Public backlash against deadly overseas drone strikes may undermine promising uses of such technology for anything from disaster response to mail delivery, a top U.S. industry group said as it launched a lobbying effort to “demys… Like this:Like Loading...
- Human-like opponents lead to more aggression in video game players, UConn study finds Video games that pit players against human-looking characters may be more likely to provoke violent thoughts and words than games where monstrous creatures are the enemy, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Connecticut and Wake… Like this:Like Loading...
- Heat-related deaths in Manhattan projected to rise Residents of Manhattan will not just sweat harder from rising temperatures in the future, says a new study; many may die. Researchers say deaths linked to warming climate may rise some 20 percent by the 2020s, and, in some worst-case scenarios, 90 perc… Like this:Like Loading...
- Critics slam new cloning research NEW YORK (Reuters) – Scientists’ assertion that the advance in therapeutic cloning announced on Wednesday could not and would not pave the way to cloning a baby did little to assuage critics of the research. Like this:Like Loading...
- Scientists create human stem cells through cloning NEW YORK (Reuters) – After more than 15 years of failures by scientists around the world and one outright fraud, biologists have finally created human stem cells by the same technique that produced Dolly the cloned sheep in 1996: They transplanted gene… Like this:Like Loading...
- NASA telescope’s planet-hunting days may be over CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – NASA’s first telescope dispatched to hunt for Earth-like planets that may support life elsewhere in the universe has lost use of its positioning system, threatening its mission, officials said on Wednesday. Like this:Like Loading...
- Rocket blasts off from Florida carrying new GPS satellite CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – An unmanned Atlas rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Wednesday to deliver an upgraded global positioning system satellite into orbit. Like this:Like Loading...
- National Weather Service gets big computing boost MIAMI (Reuters) – The U.S. National Weather Service is getting a quantum jump in computing power that will significantly improve its forecasting and storm tracking abilities to better protect the country from severe weather. Like this:Like Loading...
- U.S. sees China launch as test of anti-satellite muscle -source WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government believes a Chinese missile launch this week was the first test of a new interceptor that could be used to destroy a satellite in orbit, a U.S. defense official told Reuters on Wednesday. Like this:Like Loading...
- China says EU solar duties to “seriously harm” trade ties BEIJING (Reuters) – China warned the European Union on Thursday that imposing duties on Chinese solar panels would “seriously harm” bilateral trade ties, upping the tone of its criticism a week after the EU said it would move ahead with hefty penalties… Like this:Like Loading...
- Scientists create human stem cells through cloning NEW YORK (Reuters) – After more than 15 years of failures by scientists around the world and one outright fraud, biologists have finally created human stem cells by the same technique that produced Dolly the cloned sheep in 1996: They transplanted gene… Like this:Like Loading...
- Meteoroid impact triggers bright flash on the moon CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – An automated telescope monitoring the moon has captured images of an 88-pound (40 kg) rock slamming into the lunar surface, creating a bright flash of light, NASA scientists said on Friday. Like this:Like Loading...
- Starman falls to Earth after five-month space odyssey ALMATY/CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – The Canadian astronaut who became a music sensation when his zero-gravity version of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” went viral on the web returned to Earth along with two crewmates on Tuesday after a five-month … Like this:Like Loading...
- Ice melt, sea level rise, to be less severe than feared: study OSLO (Reuters) – A melt of ice on Greenland and Antarctica is likely to be less severe than expected this century, limiting sea level rise to a maximum of 69 cm (27 inches), an international study said on Tuesday. Like this:Like Loading...
- China missile hit highest suborbital level since 1976: scientist WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China launched a large missile on Monday that reached 6,200 miles above the earth, its highest suborbital launch since 1976, according to a U.S. scientist at Harvard University. Like this:Like Loading...
- Graphene joins the race to redefine the ampere A new joint innovation by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and the University of Cambridge could pave the way for redefining the ampere in terms of fundamental constants of physics. The world’s first graphene single-electron pump (SEP), described… Like this:Like Loading...
- Climate change will cause widespread global-scale loss of common plants and animals More than half of common plants and one third of the animals could see a dramatic decline this century due to climate change, according to research from the University of East Anglia. read more Like this:Like Loading...
- Chemistry breakthrough sheds new light on illness and health From microscopes to MRI scanners, imaging technology is growing ever more vital in the world’s hospitals, whether for the diagnosis of illness or for research into new cures. Imaging technology requires dyes or contrast agents of some sort. Current con… Like this:Like Loading...
- Spacewalking repairmen replace space station’s leaky pump CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – A pair of spacewalking astronauts wrapped up a hastily planned repair job on Saturday to replace a suspect coolant pump needed to keep the International Space Station at full power. Like this:Like Loading...
- Tablets can interfere with implanted defibrillators, stop hearts Science fair experiment shows cover-closing magnets disabling ICDs. Like this:Like Loading...
- Flawed diamonds promise sensory perfection From brain to heart to stomach, the bodies of humans and animals generate weak magnetic fields that a supersensitive detector could use to pinpoint illnesses, trace drugs — and maybe even read minds. Sensors no bigger than a thumbnail could map gas de… Like this:Like Loading...
- CU study suggests link between tumor suppressors and starvation survival A particular tumor suppressor gene that fights cancer cells does more than clamp down on unabated cell division — the hallmark of the disease — it also can help make cells more fit by allowing them to fend off stress, says a University of Colorado Bo… Like this:Like Loading...
- Ammonia leak detected outside International Space Station (Reuters) – An ammonia leak was detected in the cooling system outside of the International Space Station on Thursday, but no crew members are in danger and the station is operating normally, the U.S. space agency NASA said on its website. Like this:Like Loading...
- If Mars One makes you skeptical, you might be dead inside—like me Op-ed: Do we scoff at dreamers because we lack imagination, or are they actually crazy? Like this:Like Loading...
- U.S. returning looted Tyrannosaurus skeleton to Mongolia WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A 70-million-year-old dinosaur skeleton from the Gobi Desert that was smuggled to the United States in pieces and auctioned for more than $1 million was returned on Monday by the U.S. government to Mongolia. Like this:Like Loading...
- Solar-powered plane wraps first leg of flight across United States (Reuters) – The flight from San Fransisco to Phoenix took 18 hours and 18 minutes on Saturday – and didn’t use a drop of fuel. Like this:Like Loading...
- Boeing demonstrator breaks hypersonic flight record WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Boeing Co’s X-51A Waverider made history this week when it achieved the longest hypersonic flight by a jet-fuel powered aircraft, flying for 3-1/2 minutes at five times the speed of sound, the U.S. Air Force said on Friday. Like this:Like Loading...
- Solar-powered plane takes off for flight across U.S. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A solar-powered airplane that developers hope to eventually pilot around the world took off early on Friday from San Francisco Bay on the first leg of an attempt to fly across the United States with no fuel but the sun’s energ… Like this:Like Loading...
- Big drugmakers think small with nanomedicine deals LONDON (Reuters) – Is nanomedicine the next big thing? A growing number of top drug companies seem to think so. Like this:Like Loading...
- Solar-powered plane takes off for cross-U.S. flight SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A solar-powered airplane that developers hope to eventually pilot around the world took off early on Friday from San Francisco Bay on the first leg of an attempt to fly across the United States with no fuel but the sun’s energ… Like this:Like Loading...
- Alexander Graham Bell speaks, and 2013 hears his voice WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nine years after he placed the first telephone call, Alexander Graham Bell tried another experiment: he recorded his voice on a wax-covered cardboard disc on April 15, 1885, and gave it an audio signature: “Hear my voice – Alexan… Like this:Like Loading...
- Virgin’s passenger spaceship completes first rocket test flight (Reuters) – A six-passenger spaceship owned by an offshoot of Virgin Group fired its rocket engine in flight for the first time on Monday, a key step toward the start of commercial service in about a year, Virgin owner Richard Branson said. Like this:Like Loading...
- Alexander Graham Bell speaks, and 2013 hears his voice WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nine years after he placed the first telephone call, Alexander Graham Bell tried another experiment: he recorded his voice on a wax-covered cardboard disc on April 15, 1885, and gave it an audio signature: “Hear my voice – Alexan… Like this:Like Loading...
- Space junk needs to be removed from Earth’s orbit: ESA FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Space junk such as debris from rockets must be removed from the Earth’s orbit to avoid crashes that could cost satellite operators millions of euros and knock out mobile and GPS networks, the European Space Agency said. Like this:Like Loading...
- Why does anything exist? Scientists find a bit of the answer LONDON (Reuters) – Scientists probing the nature of antimatter have found a bit more evidence to explain why the universe is not an empty husk, although not enough to account for the billions of galaxies strewn across the cosmos. Like this:Like Loading...
- Slow is scary if France quits nuclear : state institute TOURNEMIRE, France (Reuters) – A long slow retreat from nuclear power in France or indecision over policy could be very risky as skilled staff retire and young people reject careers with an uncertain future, the state-funded atomic safety research inst… Like this:Like Loading...
- Campaigners call for ban on “killer robots” LONDON (Reuters) – Machines with the ability to attack targets without any human intervention must be banned before they are developed for use on the battlefield, campaigners against “killer robots” urged on Tuesday. Like this:Like Loading...
- Hubble telescope spies incoming Comet ISON CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – A recently discovered comet, dazzlingly bright even though it is still almost as far away as Jupiter, is racing toward a November rendezvous with the sun, officials said on Tuesday. Like this:Like Loading...
- New U.S. rocket blasts off from Virginia launch pad (Reuters) – A privately owned rocket built in partnership with NASA to haul cargo to the International Space Station blasted off on Sunday for a debut test flight from a new commercial spaceport in Virginia. Like this:Like Loading...
- New U.S. rocket blasts off from Virginia launch pad (Reuters) – A privately owned rocket built in partnership with NASA to haul cargo to the International Space Station blasted off on Sunday for a debut test flight from a new commercial spaceport in Virginia. Like this:Like Loading...
- Bad weather again keeps new U.S. rocket on the ground CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – The test-launch of a new U.S. rocket to fly cargo to the International Space Station was canceled on Saturday due to a second day of poor weather at the Wallops Island, Virginia, launch site, officials said. Like this:Like Loading...
- Gene data show China bird flu mutated “under the radar” LONDON (Reuters) – The new strain of bird flu that has killed 17 people in China has been circulating widely “under the radar” and has acquired significant genetic diversity that makes it more of a threat, scientists said on Friday. Like this:Like Loading...
- Cosmonauts tackle equipment installation outside space station CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – A pair of Russian cosmonauts wrapped up a 6-1/2 hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Friday, the first of up to eight outings this year to install experiments and prepare the orbital outpost for … Like this:Like Loading...