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. ...  > full story

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. ...  > full story

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. ...  > full story

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. ...  > full story

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. ...  > full story

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. ...  > full story

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." ...  > full story

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. ...  > full story

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. ...  > full story

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. ...  > full story