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Some Antarctic scientists train in British mud
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent YELD FARM - There hasn 't been a glacier in England since the Ice Age so Antarctic sc...

Genes may explain racial disparities in asthma
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Asthma patients who are black tend to have more severe disease than asthma patients who are white, leading to...

One in four mammals risks extinction
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent BARCELONA, Spain - A quarter of the world 's mammals are threatened with extinction, ...

NASA spacecraft zooms above surface of Mercury
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON - A car-sized NASA spacecraft zoomed above the surface of Mercury on Monday, viewing rocky terrain neve...

AIDS pioneers and cancer scientist win Nobel prize
By Niklas Pollard STOCKHOLM - Two French scientists who discovered the AIDS virus and a German who bucked conventional wisdom to ...

Dark matter and nanotech may vie for Nobel prizes
By Michael Kahn LONDON - A scientist who helped prove the existence of dark matter and a researcher who used the power of jellyfi...

Lack of control seen fueling superstitions
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO - Lack of control can lead rational people to see patterns even where no true pattern exists, a find...

U.S. spacecraft poised to fly past Mercury next week
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON - A NASA spacecraft will whiz over Mercury 's crater-scarred surface next Monday, getting a look at the...

Spermicide Coke, stale chips research wins Ig Nobels
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor WASHINGTON - A researcher who figured out that Coke explodes sperm and scientists who di...

Genes pinpoint people at risk for gout: study
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON - Scientists have pinpointed three genes related to the high blood levels of uric acid that cause gout ...