LONDON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The end of the coldest December in a decade in Britain has the nation in a cold snap, with temperatures of about 10 F and heavy snow.
LAUGHLIN, Nev., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A coal-fired power plant that emitted vast quantities of air pollution that clouded views of the Grand Canyon will close at year's end.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A shortage of the prized beluga caviar from the Caspian Sea has increased sales for caviar from the sturgeon of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers.
AACHEN, Germany, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- German researchers say a new procedure for the imaging of coronary veins proves to be less invasive and has fewer complications.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers say they have found two genes that are essential for the proper development of muscle.
ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The Freeflight Atmospheric Scramjet Test Technique, or FASTT, is the first liquid fuel-powered scramjet to fly, says the U.S. Office of Naval Research.
U.S. healthcare not ready for boomers ... Biosensor could detect cancer types ... Locust breeding expected to rise ... Researcher says women compete differently
DURHAM, N.C., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A single unifying physics theory can essentially describe how animals of every ilk, from flying insects to fish, get around, says a U.S. study.
UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Locust breeding is expected to accelerate in the months ahead, the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization said in a bulletin Friday.
NEWCASTLE, England, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The European Union has awarded a grant to international researchers, led by the University of Newcastle, to develop a biosensor to detect disease.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The telecommunications industry continued to be cutthroat in 2005 worldwide, not least with SBC Communications buying out AT&T and Verizon expected to merge wit
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Research shows that U.S. women not only compete differently than men in the workplace, they also compete differently with each other.
BEIJING, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Analysts predicted Friday that China's progress on third-generation wireless could stoke a rivalry between competing technologies.
BRUSSELS, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A Belgian company has developed a wireless laptop module that connects to standard cell towers and is not limited to the proximity of WiFi hot spots.
MOSCOW, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Russia's largest wireless phone operator continued its consolidation program Friday by acquiring the remaining stake in ReCom.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. healthcare system is not ready for the baby boom generation moving into retirement, geriatric care specialists say.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The government is getting out of the way of next-generation mobile broadband services -- a new niche being developed by cell-phone companies -- by preparing to
PARIS, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A communications satellite designed to provide wireless broadband to airliners has been carried into space by France's Alcatel Alenia Space.
FRAMINGHAM, Mass., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The global personal-computer market surged in the third quarter, but the boom is unlikely to be sustained, a research group said Friday.
NEW DELHI, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- India telecom major BSNL has extended its deadline for signing up for a free two-month trial of its broadband service until the end of January.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A new study says dance seems to show evidence of sexual selection and to reveal important information about the dancer.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A new study says hyperbaric oxygen treatments aid in the recovery of injured and diseased tissue by increasing stem cell mobility.
A one-of-a-kind 8 x 4 foot portrait of Marilyn Monroe made from 2,100 bite sized stuffed cupcakes stands in the lobby next to her wax figure on the eve of Marilyn Monroe's 86th birthday at Madame Tussauds in New York City on May 31, 2012. UPI/John Angelillo
