Scientists find Antarctic ice is melting faster
CANBERRA (Reuters) - The summer ice melt in parts of Antarctica is at its highest level in 1,000 years, Australian and British resea...
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Companies jockey for position in changing U.S. space market
By Andrea Shalal-Esa WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Space companies are shifting strategies to benefit from a change in how the U.S. governm...
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Two million-year-old creature had mix of ape, human traits
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A 2 million-year-old ancestor of man had a mixture of ape and human-like features that allowed it to hike v...
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Putin says Russia to launch first manned space flight from its soil in 2018
By Denis Dyomkin VOSTOCHNY COSMODROME, Russia (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin told astronauts in orbit on Friday that Russia wi...
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Japanese fish survive 5,000-mile trip across Pacific in tsunami boat
By Elaine Porterfield SEATTLE (Reuters) - Scientists are baffled as to how a group of small fish native to Japan survived a journey ...
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Wider lithium battery use strains technology - experts
By Deepa Seetharaman WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Batteries like the one that burned on a Boeing Co 787 Dreamliner in January can be made ...
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New technology speeding progress on bird flu vaccine
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - Even as U.S. officials this week awaited the arrival of a sample of the new bird flu virus ...
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DNA discoverer Crick's Nobel, letter fetch millions at auction
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Nobel Prize medal won by Francis Crick, the co-discoverer of DNA, sold for $2.27 million at auction on Thur...
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Captive particles and Dr. Who show physicists are human too
By Robert Evans GENEVA (Reuters) - Physicists are deadly serious people, right? Clad in long white coats, they spend their days smas...
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Analysis: Big brain projects highlight drug research gaps
By Ben Hirschler and Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Governments on both sides of the Atlantic are placing big new bets on the futur...
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