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Reuters and the Reuters sphere logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of the Reuters group of companies around the world. © Reuters 2013 CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Nearly two years after space shuttle Atlantis blasted off for the last time, NASA on Thursday put out a "For Lease" notice for one of its shuttle launch pads in Florida. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/23/us-usa-space-launchpad-idUSBRE94M16520130523?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews&rpc=935 http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/23/us-usa-space-launchpad-idUSBRE94M16520130523?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews&rpc=935 scienceNews Thu, 23 May 2013 17:26:07 -0400 DALLAS (Reuters) - A solar airplane that developers hope to eventually pilot around the globe landed safely on Thursday in Texas, completing the second and longest leg of an attempt to fly across the United States powered only by the sun. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/23/us-usa-plane-solar-idUSBRE94M0XX20130523?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews&rpc=935 http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/23/us-usa-plane-solar-idUSBRE94M0XX20130523?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews&rpc=935 scienceNews Thu, 23 May 2013 13:57:07 -0400 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Public backlash against deadly overseas drone strikes may undermine promising uses of such technology for anything from disaster response to mail delivery, a top U.S. industry group said as it launched a lobbying effort to "demystify" unmanned planes. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/23/us-usa-drones-industry-idUSBRE94M02D20130523?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews&rpc=935 http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/23/us-usa-drones-industry-idUSBRE94M02D20130523?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews&rpc=935 scienceNews Thu, 23 May 2013 02:40:13 -0400 CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - In a scene right out of Star Trek, a Texas company is developing a 3-D food printer for astronauts to create custom meals on the fly. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/22/us-space-food-idUSBRE94L1B420130522?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews&rpc=935 http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/22/us-space-food-idUSBRE94L1B420130522?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews&rpc=935 scienceNews Wed, 22 May 2013 19:02:09 -0400 CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - An automated telescope monitoring the moon has captured images of an 88-pound (40 kg) rock slamming into the lunar surface, creating a bright flash of light, NASA scientists said on Friday. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/17/us-space-moon-idUSBRE94G10520130517?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews&rpc=935 http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/17/us-space-moon-idUSBRE94G10520130517?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews&rpc=935 scienceNews Fri, 17 May 2013 19:49:41 -0400 MIAMI (Reuters) - The U.S. National Weather Service is getting a quantum jump in computing power that will significantly improve its forecasting and storm tracking abilities to better protect the country from severe weather. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/16/us-usa-weather-idUSBRE94F00320130516?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews&rpc=935 http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/16/us-usa-weather-idUSBRE94F00320130516?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews&rpc=935 scienceNews Wed, 15 May 2013 20:37:56 -0400 CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - An unmanned Atlas rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Wednesday to deliver an upgraded global positioning system satellite into orbit. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/16/us-space-launch-idUSBRE94F00K20130516?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews&rpc=935 http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/16/us-space-launch-idUSBRE94F00K20130516?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews&rpc=935 scienceNews Wed, 15 May 2013 20:33:29 -0400 CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA's first telescope dispatched to hunt for Earth-like planets that may support life elsewhere in the universe has lost use of its positioning system, threatening its mission, officials said on Wednesday. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/15/us-space-telescope-idUSBRE94E1ED20130515?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews&rpc=935 http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/15/us-space-telescope-idUSBRE94E1ED20130515?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews&rpc=935 scienceNews Wed, 15 May 2013 19:34:41 -0400 NEW YORK (Reuters) - After more than 15 years of failures by scientists around the world and one outright fraud, biologists have finally created human stem cells by the same technique that produced Dolly the cloned sheep in 1996: They transplanted genetic material from an adult cell into an egg whose own DNA had been removed. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/16/us-science-stemcells-idUSBRE94E0V220130516?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews&rpc=935 http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/16/us-science-stemcells-idUSBRE94E0V220130516?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews&rpc=935 scienceNews Thu, 16 May 2013 12:31:29 -0400 BEIJING (Reuters) - China warned the European Union on Thursday that imposing duties on Chinese solar panels would "seriously harm" bilateral trade ties, upping the tone of its criticism a week after the EU said it would move ahead with hefty penalties in June. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/16/us-china-eu-solar-idUSBRE94F0BD20130516?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews&rpc=935 http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/16/us-china-eu-solar-idUSBRE94F0BD20130516?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews&rpc=935 scienceNews Thu, 16 May 2013 05:00:11 -0400