3D mannequin helps cyclist go for gold

By printing a 3D mannequin of leading international cyclist Tom Dumoulin and testing a series of skinsuits on his replica inside a wind tunnel until they found the perfect fit, researchers at TU Delft believe they can help Team Giant-Alpecin win gold at the UCI Road World Championships in Doha.

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Apes show complex cognitive skills watching 'King Kong' videos

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists using homemade videos featuring a person in a King Kong costume have documented a remarkable cognitive skill shared by chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans: the human-like ability to recognize when someone else's beliefs are wrong.

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Ripe old age: humans may already have reached maximum lifespan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When she turned 120 years old in 1995, plucky Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment was asked what type of future she expected.

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Blue Origin successfully tests capsule safety, lands booster

(Reuters) - A rocket owned by Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin blasted off from Texas on Wednesday then unexpectedly landed itself intact after the crew capsule separated and parachuted to the desert floor in a successful test of safety systems.

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Scottish, French and Dutch-born scientists win Nobel chemistry prize

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Jean-Pierre Sauvage, J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard Feringa won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for work on the design and synthesis of molecular machines, the award-giving body said on Wednesday.

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Brainy bees learn how to pull strings to get what they want

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists in Britain have managed to teach bumblebees to pull strings to get to food and then pass on what they have learned to others in their colony - showing a high level of intelligence despite their tiny brains.

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Thouless, Haldane and Kosterlitz win 2016 Nobel physics prize

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - British-born scientists David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Physics for studies of unusual states of matter such as in superconductors, the award-giving body said on Tuesday.

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Japanese scientist wins Nobel medicine prize for work on 'self-eating' cell mechanism

STOCKHOLM/LONDON (Reuters) - Japan's Yoshinori Ohsumi won the 2016 Nobel prize for medicine for ground-breaking experiments with yeast which exposed a key mechanism in the body's defenses where cells degrade and recycle their components.

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Rosetta crash lands on comet, brings historic mission to an end

BERLIN (Reuters) - The European Space Agency said the Rosetta spacecraft has crash-landed on a comet after an historic 12 years spent chasing it across more than 6 billion kilometers of space.

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Rosetta sent on collision course to surface of comet

BERLIN (Reuters) - European scientists have sent the Rosetta spacecraft on its final, one-way journey to the surface of a comet, after a historic 12-year mission to discover the secrets of the dusty, icy bodies.

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Scientists fix fractures with 3D-printed synthetic bone

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists in the United States have successfully treated broken spines and skulls in animals using 3D-printed synthetic bone, opening the possibility of future personalized bone implants for humans to fix dental, spinal other bone injuries.

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Elon Musk outlines plans to put humans on Mars

GUADALAJARA, Mexico (Reuters) - SpaceX is developing an interplanetary rocket and capsule to transport large numbers of people and cargo to Mars with the ultimate goal of colonizing the planet, company chief and tech billionaire Elon Musk said on Tuesday.

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Hubble spots evidence of water plumes on Jupiter's moon Europa

(Reuters) - Astronomers on Monday said they have spotted evidence of water vapor plumes rising from Jupiter's moon Europa, a finding that might make it easier to learn whether life exists in the warm, salty ocean hidden beneath its icy surface.

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