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Britain's fat cats facing diabetes risk: study
LONDON (Reuters) - Overweight cats who spend more time sleeping on the sofa than chasing mice face a growing risk of developing diabetes, researchers in Scotland said on Tuesday.

Energy drinks' caffeine in line with coffee: report
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Despite such speedy-sounding names as "Full Throttle," "Amp" and "Rush," energy drinks pack a punch that is generally no stronger than ...

Bush climate meeting draws doubts about action
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. summit in September on climate change, one of at least four international meetings set for this year, is already raising doubts about any action being taken ...

Brain chemical has key role in ADHD: studies
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two studies published on Monday showed the importance of a brain chemical in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, with researchers saying it might help explain ...

Spain hauls in 8 tons of jellyfish from beaches
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain has launched a campaign to investigate and collect a plague of jellyfish on its coastline, and so far has collected eight tons of them, the Environment Ministry ...

Researchers show Alzheimer's, Glaucoma link
LONDON (Reuters) - A protein that damages tissue in the brains of Alzheimer's patients is also the main cause of blindness worldwide, British researchers said in a new finding that may lead ...

New species of bat, frogs found in Congo forests
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Six new species, including a bat and two frogs, have been discovered in Democratic Republic of the Congo in an eastern area off limits to scientists for decades because ...

Weather clears for space shuttle launch Wednesday
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Work to prepare space shuttle Endeavour for its first flight in nearly five years was on schedule on Tuesday and meteorologists predicted clear skies for ...

U.N. talks help eels, elephants, slow extinctions
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Elephants and eels may find life slightly easier as a result of trade curbs imposed after UN talks that ended on Friday in a modest attempt to slow what may be the ...

China plants trees to hold back desertification
DUOLUN COUNTY, China (Reuters) - Until giant sand dunes swallowed his home, Deng Baogui was a shepherd and wheat farmer in an Inner Mongolian village where his family had lived for three ...

British body backs inter-species clones
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Making human-animal embryos for scientific experiments should be allowed because of the benefits to science and medicine, British experts said in a report released ...

Ecuador weighs Galapagos turtles vs tourists
PUERTO AYORA, Ecuador (Reuters) - Marauding Europeans are nothing new to the Galapagos Islands, which long ago were the haunt of English pirates preying on Spanish galleons laden with Inca ...

Desalination no answer to water crisis: WWF
GENEVA (Reuters) - Removing salt from sea water to overcome a worldwide shortage of drinking water could end up worsening the crisis, environmental group WWF warned on Tuesday.

Extinct ancestor was pygmy version of modern panda
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 2 million years ago, in lowland tropical forests of what is now China, lived an ancestor of the giant panda that was very similar to the famed vegetarian bear ...

Having male twin reduces woman's fertility: study
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Women who have a male twin are less likely to marry and have children, perhaps because of being exposed to their brother's testosterone for nine months in the womb ...

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