By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A fossil finger bone dating back about 90,000 years that was unearthed in Saudi Arabia’s Nefud Desert is pointing to what scientists are calling
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Bayer to sell digital farming business to clear way for Monsanto deal
By Ludwig Burger FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Germany’s Bayer <BAYGn.DE> plans to sell its digital farming business to BASF <BASFn.DE> as part of changes to concessions it has offered to win
Physicist Stephen Hawking, who conquered the stars, dies at 76
By Stephen Addison (Reuters) – Stephen Hawking, who sought to explain some of the most complicated questions of life while himself working under the shadow of a likely premature death,
Israeli scientists complete mock Mars mission in Negev desert
RAMON CRATER, Israel (Reuters) – A team of six Israeli researchers on Sunday ended a four-day Mars habitat experiment in Israel’s Negev desert where they simulated living conditions on the
Arachnophobes take heed – this ancient spider had a whip-like tail
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – If you are not a fan of spiders, you may not like the creepy little arachnid scientists found entombed in chunks of amber from
Self-driving car experts offer online degree in ‘flying cars’
By Paul Lienert (Reuters) – Self-driving car pioneer Sebastian Thrun has shifted his gaze to the skies, as his Silicon Valley online school Udacity launches what it calls the first
Are Earthlings alone? Half of humans believe in alien life
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Nearly half of humans believe in alien life and want to make contact, a survey in 24 countries has found, in what researchers said helps to explain
Colossal distant black hole holds surprises about early universe
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The oldest and most distant black hole ever observed — a celestial brute 800 million times more massive than the sun — is providing
New vaccine, long-acting drug trials buoy hopes in HIV fight
By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) – Researchers announced the launch of two big studies in Africa on Thursday to test a new HIV vaccine and a long-acting injectable drug, fuelling
Dying at home rather than in hospital, elderly Japanese ‘go to the afterlife quietly’
(The November 20 story corrects paragraph 11 to show data is from Yamato Clinic, not OECD.) By Megumi Lim and Kim Kyung-Hoon TOKYO (Reuters) – After he was diagnosed with