PROVIDENCE, R.I., Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Researchers said Wednesday the Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Odyssey spacecraft have detected evidence of a relatively recent ice age on Mars.
A series by UPI examining the global communications phenomenon known as the World Wide Web. This week: As of Jan. 1, 2004, many commonplace online communications will become illegal in California.
ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 17 (UPI) -- An international team of researchers said Wednesday they have developed a new process to create incredibly tiny wires only billionths of a meter thick.
MIAMI, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- The South Florida Wading Bird Report for 2003 shows the birds of the Everglades produced about half the chicks that it did in 2002.
HOUSTON, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- A once-a-day pill that stopped lung cancer in some patients may be effective in stopping new breast cancers or recurrences, Texas scientists say.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- The first powered, heavier-than-air flight by the Wright brothers, on Dec. 17, 1903, ushered in a century of aviation and space history. Here are some other historic milestones that have marked the first century of flight.
Children with sickle cell disease fair poorly when exposed to second-hand smoke at home, the most popular brands of moist snuff also contain the highest amounts of nicotine, and other news of modern health.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- Was the success of the Wright brothers unique to their time and circumstance? Or could we expect they would fare the same today? And from where will the next generation of aviation entrepreneurs emerge?
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- If you didn't come of age with the feminists, you're less likely to call yourself one, reports a study conducted in part by the University of Pennsylvania.
MOROGORO, Tanzania, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- Giant African rats, already used to sniff out land mines, are being trained to sniff out tuberculosis in humans, the New Scientist reported.
TOKYO, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- A new trial will allow thousands of Japanese mobile phone owners to use them as a swipe card to pay for purchases, as travel passes, and as concert tickets.
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- A Korean research team has used reportedly genetically modified human embryonic stem cells to cure Parkinson's disease in rat experiments.
COLUMBIA, Mo., Dec. 16 (UPI) -- Researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia hope to give stroke patients a unique option in blood thinning medication -- cobra venom.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- The Medicare prescription drug law is a boon to monitoring device companies that can combine technology with patient education and self care, and other health business news.
LONDON, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- A series of dust storms could threaten the success of three space probes heading for Mars by obscuring a large part of the planet's northern hemisphere.
NEW YORK, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- A new study indicates people living in U.S. cities face an increased risk of dying from a heart attack as a result of air pollution
PHOENIX, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- Arizona State University researchers have found a pathway whereby plants can generate human-like proteins, which could lead to new medical advances.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- Shy and introverted people are more prone diseases, including viral infections, than outgoing folk, California researchers disclosed Tuesday.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- A St. Louis University scientist has received a patent for his technique of converting the virus that causes the common cold into an anti-cancer drug.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- President Bush Tuesday readied a new U.S. plan for air traffic management that will take advantage of technological innovations to improve flight safety.
LIVERPOOL, England, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- Two patients at England's Fazakerley Hospital died within three days of each other after a deadly bacteria entered their bloodstreams.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- Diet and lifestyle are more important in whether or not someone gets Alzheimer's after age 65 than their genetic endowment, Swedish scientists have discovered.
Many residents have protested the hydraulic fracturing oil drilling citing contamination of the ground and air at the Niobrara oil shale formation in Weld County, North eastern Colorado on May 30, 2012. Gas and oil companies are using large amounts of water to obtain shale oil and gas in a process called hydraulic fracturing or fracking. UPI/Gary C. Caskey
