WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- President Bush named environmental chief and former Gov. Michael Leavitt Monday to take over the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
MIAMI, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- The federal government will launch five new weather satellites in the next eight years to help hurricane forecasting, The Tampa Tribune reports.
BOULDER, Colo., Dec. 12 (UPI) -- One of the mystery villains in global climate change is the role of aerosols -- dust and small particle emissions -- on climate and temperature.
TOKYO, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- A University of Tokyo engineering department team has developed a flexible ultra-thin scanner that can be inserted between book pages, Mainichi News reported.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- San Francisco has adopted a new set of standards for zoo elephants that animal rights activists say should become a national model.
ARGONNE, Ill., Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Argonne National Laboratory scientists are revamping an old X-ray technique to study proteins in an attempt to see enough detail to tell if a medicine is working.
RICHMOND, Va., Dec. 10 (UPI) -- More people died from racial disparities in health status over the last decade than were saved by medical advances, reports a Virginia public health physician.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Most of the shrimp eaten in the United States is raised in polluted ponds and may contain U.S.-banned chemicals according to a new report by Public Citizen.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Concerns are rising over the possible toxicity of nanomaterials and the safety of nanoscale manufacturing, but experts say the field is so new there is not enough research in hand to know what regulations are needed or even if there actually is a safety i
EDINBURGH, Scotland, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Scottish investigators say that studying ice and its interaction with other materials at the molecular level can help prevent slips and falls in wintry weather.
MOSCOW, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Russian specialists have dismantled ground equipment used for launches of the Photon and Bion spacecraft at Plesetsk cosmodrome, local media reported Friday.
Team plans unmanned mission to Neptune ... Monkeys observed using tools to dig food ... Tremors under San Andreas studied ... New study has folic acid warning ... News from United Press International.
SACRAMENTO, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Movie executive Sherry Lansing has been named to a citizens committee overseeing California's new $3 billion stem cell research program.
JERUSALEM, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Researchers in Israel have discovered that bacteria fight antibiotics by producing slow-growing cells that survive because they are so immature.
BERKELEY, Calif., Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Department of Energy researchers say a microscope that allows them to probe ceramics at the atomic level may lead to more energy-efficient generators.
CINCINNATI, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- An Ohio woman was released from Cincinnati's University Hospital Friday, one week after doctors removed a 66-pound tumor from her ovary.
ATLANTA, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- A NASA-funded team hopes to extend human knowledge into the outer reaches of the solar system by designing an unmanned nuclear-powered probe of Neptune.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Most space advocates and many in the nascent private manned spaceflight industry have been enthusiastic about the benefits of the Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act of 2004, which the Senate passed Wednesday and now awaits the president's signature, b
NEW YORK, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- A series by UPI examining the exploding field of nanotechnology. This week: In order to keep computers advancing in power as they have for decades, a new U.S. research initiative partnering industry, academia and government has now launched to hunt in nan
BERKELEY, Calif., Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Seismologists at the University of California are studying mysterious tremors deep under the San Andreas Fault that may signal future earthquakes.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- A chemical compound that failed as an inflammation treatment is now the most promising new tuberculosis medicine in 40 years, scientists say.
Fans react and hold up signs as floats carrying the New York Giants rides down the Canyon of Heroes for the Giants victory ticker tape parade 2 days after the New York Giants defeated the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI in New York City on February 7, 2012 . UPI /John Angelillo
