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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. researchers have designed a reactor fuel that they believe can make nuclear power plants 50 percent more powerful and safer, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said.

The European Union is teaming up with car manufacturers to promote automotive accident-avoidance technologies.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese scientists made their first successful test of a thermonuclear fusion reactor on Thursday, raising the energy-hungry country's profile in the new but uncertain technology that promises clean power, state media reported. Reuters complete story

NEAR ARKALYK, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - The world's first female space tourist, Iranian-born Anousheh Ansari, returned to Earth on Friday, bumping down in a Russian Soyuz capsule at dawn on the Kazakh steppe.

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Travelers to parts of Africa and Asia are returning with a new mosquito-borne virus and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned on Thursday it could become entrenched in new areas.

Sharp-eyed Google Earth monitors have this morning alerted Vulture Central to the threat posed to humanity by a giant earwig which is as we speak rampaging its way across the German countryside:

TORONTO (Reuters) - When someone is "easy on the eye," it could also be because they are easy on the brain, according to a new international study.

LONDON (Reuters) - The 1918 Spanish Flu that killed up to 50 million people worldwide caused a severe immune response which may help to explain why it was so deadly, American scientists said on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Mars Rover Opportunity has arrived at the rim of a big crater that scientists never thought it could reach, NASA said on Wednesday.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Researchers in Israel, the Palestinian territories and Germany are pursuing a project to transform female freshwater fish into males, a sex change they hope will put bigger fish on the dinner table.

GENEVA (Reuters) - Commercial fishing methods threaten to devastate Europe's oceans, WWF International said on Wednesday.