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U.S. space tourist confident ahead of blast-off
By Maria Golovnina BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - Richard Garriott, a U.S. space tourist due to travel to space on a Russian spaceship on...

Indonesia raises alert level of Sulawesi volcano
JAKARTA - Indonesia has raised the alert level for a volcano on Sulawesi island after it began spewing hot clouds and lava, a vulcanolog...

ADHD drugs cut risk of drug abuse, smoking: study
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO - Girls who take stimulants to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are less likely than o...

Safer prenatal Down's syndrome test found in U.S
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON - A prenatal blood test can be used to determine if an unborn baby has Down 's syndrome without the sma...

India's first moon mission to take off on October 22
By Matthias Williams NEW DELHI - India will launch a locally built rocket for the country 's first unmanned mission to the moon o...

Asteroid to burn up before hitting Earth
WASHINGTON - A tiny asteroid discovered earlier Monday by an Arizona observatory will hit Earth 's atmosphere over Sudan in a few hours ...

Climate change seen aiding spread of deadly diseases
BARCELONA, Spain - A "deadly dozen " diseases ranging from avian flu to yellow fever are likely to spread more because of climate chang...

Gene discovery may help hunt for blindness cure
LONDON - Scientists have discovered a gene mutation linked to the most common cause of blindness in the developed world, holding out the...

Two Japanese and American win physics Nobel
By Niklas Pollard STOCKHOLM - Two Japanese scientists and a Tokyo-born American shared the 2008 Nobel Prize for physics for helpi...

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...