MOSCOW (Reuters) - Drug addiction kills 80,000 Russians each year, a senior Russian anti-drugs official was quoted as saying on Friday, while a human rights watchdog issued a report warning Russia's drug treatment strategy needed reform. "Russia is sit

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Fear may be linked to the sense of smell, and can be switched off simply by shutting down certain receptors in the brain, Japanese scientists have found. In an experiment with mice, the researchers identified and removed certain

Plants chatter amongst themselves to spread information, a lot like humans and other animals, new research suggests. A unique internal network apparently allows greens to warn each other against predators and potential enemies. Many herbal plants such

WASHINGTON - Mounting tiny video cameras to the tail feathers of crows, researchers discovered that the birds use a variety of tools to seek food, and even make their own tools, plucking, smoothing and bending twigs and grass stems. "We observed a new

MAPUTO (AFP) - The Mozambican government on Monday authorised soldiers to gun down wild animals who are seen as a threat to human beings after a new report highlighted an increase in the number of deadly attacks. "The number of people killed by wild

ZAMBOANGA, Philippines (AFP) - Philippine authorities seized a Chinese fishing vessel and arrested its 19 crew for illegally poaching endangered sea turtles, police said Friday.The crewmen, from Hainan island off southern China, face charges of catchi

Astronomers have spotted evidence of a second Earth being built around a distant star 424 light-years away. Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted a huge belt of warm dust swirling around a young star called HD 113766

At the general store on Canada Lake in the southern Adirondacks, mice were the talk of the town this summer. With winter closing in, people can expect to keep hearing the skritch of tiny feet as the destructive rodents move indoors. "My husband was buy

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A crippled cow moose in west Anchorage is showing such a knack for survival that state biologists have so far avoided the normal course of putting her down. The moose, which is missing about 12 inches of its right hind leg, is also

CAPE CANAVERAL,Fla.-The Soviets beat the United States at getting a satellite, and a man, into space. Now, the Chinese may get to the moon before the U.S. can make a return visit. Fifty years after Sputnik became the world's first artificial satellite