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Malaria kills twice as many as thought: study (Reuters)
 LONDON, Feb. 3, 2012 (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. ... > read full story
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NASA confident in Russia despite space accidents (Reuters)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, Feb. 2, 2012 (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. ... > read full story
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Siblings' brain scans may hold key to addictions (Reuters)
LONDON, Feb. 2, 2012 (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. ... > read full story
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OHB confirms won Galileo satellite contract from EU (Reuters)
FRANKFURT, Feb. 2, 2012 (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. ... > read full story
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No big Fukushima health impact seen: U.N. body chairman (Reuters)
 VIENNA, Jan. 31, 2012 (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. ... > read full story
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U.S. panel defends call to censor bird flu studies (Reuters)
 CHICAGO, Jan. 31, 2012 (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. ... > read full story
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Snowy owls soar south from Arctic in rare mass migration (Reuters)
 SALMON, Idaho, Jan. 28, 2012 (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." ... > read full story
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Russia to delay space mission due to technical problems (Reuters)
MOSCOW, Jan. 27, 2012 (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. ... > read full story
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Arctic ice melt lifts hopes for Russian maritime trade (Reuters)
SEVERODVINSK, Russia, Jan. 27, 2012 (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. ... > read full story
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Rivals see no need to match Roche's big gene bet (Reuters)
 DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 27, 2012 (Reuters) -- Roche Holding AG's rivals Sanofi SA and Novartis AG see no need to match the Swiss drug maker in buying a gene-decoding business like Illumina Inc and reckon they can do partnerships instead. ... > read full story
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