SHANGHAI/LONDON (Reuters) - Years of pouring money into its laboratories, wooing scientists home from overseas and urging researchers to publish and patent is starting to give China a competitive edge in biotechnology, a strategic field it sees as ripe...
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Dinosaur fossils preserve apparent red blood cells, collagen
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - They looked, as one researcher said, like "rubbish," eight seemingly inconsequential Cretaceous Period dinosaur fossils that sat in a London museum's collection for more than a century after being found in Canada's Alberta provin...
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Scientists solve mystery of milky rain in U.S. Pacific Northwest
PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) - Scientists have finally solved the mystery of a milky rain that coated cars and raised eyebrows across a wide swathe of the Pacific Northwest this February, researchers said on Tuesday.
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Botched parachute bedevils NASA ‘flying saucer’ test for second time
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - NASA's test run of a Mars landing system came to a quick end on Monday when the saucer-shaped vehicle's parachute tore away after partly unfurling high over the Pacific Ocean, a NASA TV broadcast showed.
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Botched parachute bedevils NASA ‘flying saucer’ test for second time
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - NASA's test run of a Mars landing system came to a quick end on Monday when the saucer-shaped vehicle's parachute tore away after partly unfurling high over the Pacific Ocean, a NASA TV broadcast showed.
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SeaHow’s New Generation Skimmer System
New SeaHow skimmer systems can be implemented to almost any work boat over 6m in length. Skimmers are designed to collect both light and heavy oils efficiently.
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Children learn to write by teaching robots
Researchers in Switzerland have designed a system where children teach robot students how to write, and in the process improve their own handwriting skills. This learning by teaching paradigm, they say, could engage unmotivated students as well as boos...
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No more: Italy Refused to Take More Mediterranean Migrants
Italian politicians based in the north vowed not to shelter any more migrants saved at sea, even as thousands more were being rescued in the Mediterranean from smugglers' boats in distress,
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Yangtze Ship Disaster: Nearly 400 Confirmed Dead
Nearly 400 bodies are recovered from a Chinese ship that capsized on the Yangtze River. Only 14 survivors, one of them the captain, were found after the ship carrying 456 people sank on Monday night.
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New Jersey governor sues to stop to ocean sonic boom research
(Reuters) - Governor Chris Christie's administration went to federal court on Friday in the hopes of stopping an underwater study off New Jersey's coast during summer tourism season, saying sonic boom research would endanger marine mammals and other sp...
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