WASHINGTON (CNN)—The United States is stepping up its efforts to curb poppy cultivation in Afghanistan, a nation that “has re-emerged as the world’s leading supplier of illicit opium, morphine and heroin,” the State Department’s top counter-narcotics official said Monday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Bush reshuffled his advisory council on cloning and related medical issues on Friday, adding a prominent neurosurgeon known for his work on conjoined twins and two conservatives who have spoken out strongly against cloning.
ADELAIDE, Australia (AP)—Cute, cuddly and fast breeding, thousands of koalas are eating themselves out of a home on an Australian island. But authorities are refusing to heed conservationists’ pleas to reduce the population, fearing a backlash from tourists and animal rights activists.
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PARIS, France (AP)—Pushing back the boundaries of space observation, French and Swiss astronomers say they have detected the farthest galaxy ever seen.
A network of snail brain cells has been cultivated on a silicon chip, an advance that its creators claim is a big step towards microchip implants that can control artificial limbs, restore sight and revive memory function.
NEW YORK (AP) – A man was sentenced Thursday to 2 1/2 years in prison for registering misleading domain names on the Internet that guided children searching for popular sites like Disneyland to pornography instead.