TOKYO (Reuters) – In August, a robot vaguely resembling a kangaroo will begin stacking sandwiches, drinks and ready meals on shelves at a Japanese convenience store in a test its […]

By Juarawee Kittisilpa and Orathai Sriring BANGKOK (Reuters) – Monkey labour to harvest coconuts for commercial products “is almost non-existent” in Thailand, the commerce minister said on Monday, after British retailers […]

By Cate Cadell and Roxanne Liu BEIJING (Reuters) – China said 300 symptomless carriers of the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, the epicentre of the pandemic, had not been found to […]

By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) – The GAVI vaccines alliance said on Thursday it had raised $8.8 billion from international donor governments, companies and philanthropic foundations to fund its immunisation […]

LONDON/CHICAGO (Reuters) – The first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic may be waning. For vaccine developers, that could be a problem. Scientists in Europe and the United States say the […]

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Scientists have detected an exotic planet in another solar system where the weather forecast is always dire – a 100 percent chance of the […]

By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) – Europe has now become the epicentre of a coronavirus pandemic that has claimed 5,000 lives around the world, “a tragic milestone”, the World Health […]

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The world’s last woolly mammoths, sequestered on an Arctic Ocean island outpost, suffered from serious genetic defects caused by generations of inbreeding that may […]

By Thin Lei Win ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As water shortages, high temperatures and rising greenhouse gas emissions threaten food production, countries around the world are looking somewhere new […]

By Ari Rabinovitch JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Researchers in Israel say they have reconstructed the skeleton of a pre-historic human from a long-extinct and elusive species using DNA found in the […]