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Malaria kills twice as many as thought: study
Friday, February 3, 2012 3:58:39 PM CST
LONDON (Reuters) - Malaria kills more than 1.2 million people worldwide a year, nearly twice as many as previously thought, according to new research published on Friday that questions years of assumptions about the mosquito-borne disease.
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NASA confident in Russia despite space accidents
Thursday, February 2, 2012 5:11:17 PM CST
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Despite a spate of Russian space accidents last year, NASA remains confident in its partner's ability to fly crew and cargo to the International Space Station, the program manager said on Thursday.
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Russia blames Mars probe failure on space radiation
Thursday, February 2, 2012 10:22:32 AM CST
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia blamed radiation on Tuesday for a computer glitch that doomed its Mars moon mission, but space industry experts cast doubt on the findings of an investigation into the crash of what was to be Moscow's first deep space mission in two decades.
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Siblings' brain scans may hold key to addictions
Thursday, February 2, 2012 1:10:00 PM CST
LONDON (Reuters) - Drug addicts and their non-addicted siblings share certain features in the brain, suggesting a susceptibility to addiction is inherited but is also a flaw that can be overcome, scientists said on Thursday.
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OHB confirms won Galileo satellite contract from EU
Thursday, February 2, 2012 7:04:01 AM CST
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's OHB AG confirmed it won a 250 million euro ($330 million) contract to build eight satellites for the European Union's Galileo navigation system.
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No big Fukushima health impact seen: U.N. body chairman
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 1:15:04 PM CST
VIENNA (Reuters) - The health impact of last year's Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan appears relatively small thanks partly to prompt evacuations, the chairman of a U.N. scientific body investigating the effects of radiation said on Tuesday.
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U.S. panel defends call to censor bird flu studies
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 11:00:30 AM CST
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A potentially deadlier form of the bird flu virus poses one of the gravest known threats to humans and justifies an unprecedented call to censor the research that produced it, a top U.S. biosecurity official said on Tuesday.
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Snowy owls soar south from Arctic in rare mass migration
Saturday, January 28, 2012 11:53:41 AM CST
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - Bird enthusiasts are reporting rising numbers of snowy owls from the Arctic winging into the lower 48 states this winter in a mass southern migration that a leading owl researcher called "unbelievable."
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Arctic ice melt lifts hopes for Russian maritime trade
Friday, January 27, 2012 11:07:46 AM CST
SEVERODVINSK, Russia (Reuters) - When severe snowstorms prevented life-sustaining fuel supplies from reaching the frozen Alaskan town of Nome, U.S. officials turned to a Russian company for help.
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Russia to delay space mission due to technical problems
Friday, January 27, 2012 10:38:10 AM CST
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia plans to delay the next mission carrying U.S. and Russian astronauts to the International Space Station by several weeks due to problems with the spaceship's descent vehicle, Interfax news agency quoted an industry source as saying Friday.