CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - The commander of the International Space Station and her Russian flight engineer completed a 6-1/2-hour spacewalk on Friday to finish a handful of tasks postponed from space shuttle Discovery’s recent mission to the orbital outpost.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A big blob of molten rock appears to be pushing up remnants of an ancient volcano in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, scientists reported on Friday.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Doctors in Macau are urging the government to introduce another vaccine to protect children against pneumococcal diseases, which kill more than a million children worldwide a year, mostly in poorer states.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has launched a project to create a new generation of spacecraft and boosters, the head of national space administration said on Friday, making clear that they would not appear on orbit before 2020.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - The smallpox vaccine protects for a lifetime, and so does actual an infection of measles or mumps, according to the first long-term study of immunity to childhood diseases.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian scientists studying humpback whales sounds say they have begun to decode the whale’s mysterious communication system, identifying male pick-up lines and motherly warnings.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA moved space shuttle Atlantis to its seaside launch pad on Saturday ahead of a planned early December mission to get Europe’s first permanent space laboratory into orbit.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China, the third country to put a man into space aboard its own rocket, will open part of the second stage of its moon mission projects to private funding, a newspaper said on Thursday.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Ultra-high energy cosmic rays — particles that pack the punch of a rifle shot — make their way to Earth from massive black holes in nearby galaxies, scientists said on Thursday, in a finding that may solve a mystery that has puzzled physicists for decades.
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LIMA (Reuters) - A 4,000-year-old temple filled with murals has been unearthed on the northern coast of Peru, making it one of the oldest finds in the Americas, a leading archaeologist said on Saturday.
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SUGIHWARAS, Indonesia (Reuters) - Indonesia’s steaming Mount Kelud volcano was dangerously close to an eruption on Monday as magma pushed through its blocked crater causing boiling water to spill down its sides, a volcanologist said on Monday.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Japanese scientists have identified two light receptors in marine algae which appear to be responsible for the proliferation of these plants.
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LUXOR, Egypt (Reuters) - Egypt put the mummy of the boy pharaoh Tutankhamun on display in his tomb in the Valley of the Kings on Sunday, giving visitors their first chance to see the face of a ruler who died more than 3,000 years ago.
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ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Patients who received drug-eluting stents were no more likely to die or suffer a heart attack than those who got bare-metal versions, researchers found in a large U.S. study that adds to the debate over the safety of the artery-opening devices.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A very common gene can help explain why breast-fed babies tend to grow up to be more intelligent than those raised exclusively on bottled milk.
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - Space shuttle Discovery undocked from the International Space Station on Monday after an 11-day stay during which astronauts made a risky repair to a solar panel and delivered a new module to the outpost.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese lunar obiter entered the moon’s orbit on Monday, 12 days after takeoff, a feat hailed as a new milestone in China’s exploration of space.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Insufficient sleep can negatively affect preteens’ metabolism as well as their exercise and eating habits, causing them to get fat, researchers reported on Monday.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Moisture has become a luxury in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa where many locals are waking up to nosebleeds in the dry autumn, state media said on Monday as the Himalayan region faces growing threat of global warming.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian scientists have found how to switch hunger on and off using a molecule that targets the brain — a discovery which could stop weight loss in terminally ill patients or produce weight loss in the morbidly obese.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Inspired by the toe pads of tree frogs and crickets, researchers in India have created a form of sticky coating that is both strong and reusable.
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DAMASCUS (Reuters) - French archaeologists have discovered an 11,000-year-old wall painting underground in northern Syria which they believe is the oldest in the world.
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MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) - A French explorer unveiled plans on Friday to fly over the Arctic in an airship to measure the ice cap amid concern at the pace it is melting.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A Russian capsule carrying a new crew for the International Space Station and Malaysia’s first astronaut slipped into a berthing port at the orbital outpost on Friday as the space ships sailed 220 miles
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A South China tiger has been caught on camera by a hunter-turned-farmer, the first confirmed sighting for 30 years of a sub-species experts had feared was extinct in the wild, the Xinhua news agency said on Friday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The winning of the Nobel Peace Prize by Al Gore and the U.N. climate panel on Friday should give a push to alternative energy technologies that are already enjoying their best year ever, experts said.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - An 85 million-year-old dinosaur skull has been found in southwestern Japan, one of the oldest discoveries of its kind in the country, the Kyodo news agency said on Saturday.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese scientists have worked out the first complete map of the Chinese genome and are now turning their attention to a national treasure — the giant panda, a Beijing newspaper reported on Friday.
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