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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – U.S. warplanes mistakenly strafed Canadian troops fighting Taliban forces in southern Afghanistan, killing one soldier and seriously wounding five on Monday in an operation that NATO claims has also left 200 insurgents dead. More than 20 others were killed across Afghanistan, including a British soldier and four …

Female fertility may be affected by a gene that makes a protein called adrenomedullin. Female mice with only one copy of the gene have “significantly reduced fertility” compared with those with two copies of the gene, say researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The researchers included …

SAN FRANCISCO – A type of fish so common that practically every American kid who ever dropped a fishing line and a bobber into a pond has probably caught one is being enlisted in the fight against terrorism. San Francisco, New York, Washington and other big cities are using bluegills …