SHAMBURG, Ill., Dec. 20 (UPI) -- Motorola is seeing its new wireless surveillance cameras as a major advance in the fields of security and law enforcement.
TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Dec. 19 (UPI) -- A study by North Carolina scientists suggests inconsistencies among a number of genetic databases could lead to misdiagnoses of genetic disorders.
BOULDER, Colo., Dec. 19 (UPI) -- The National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., says global warming may destroy most permafrost across the Northern Hemisphere.
ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 19 (UPI) -- University of Central Florida scientists say they've found a safe and effective method of producing large quantities of anthrax vaccine.
MEDFORD, Mass., Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Johns Hopkins scientists say the beneficial effects of a popular class of antidepressants may be the result of increased nerve-fiber growth in the brain.
NEW YORK, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- A multi-institutional study has offered more insight into the evolutionary process by examining how albinism evolves in cavefish.
NEW YORK, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Scientists at Columbia University have found that one of the few remaining groups of wild Asian elephants in India is genetically distinct.
WALTHAM, Mass., Dec. 19 (UPI) -- A computational study by Brandeis University scientists proposes the existence of a neural model underlying time-related tasks in the human brain.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Dec. 19 (UPI) -- University of North Carolina scientists say they've purified a protein and have shown it can alter gene activity by reversing a molecular modification.
LONDON, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- British scientists say they've determined that the number of pack years of cigarette smoking is a major determinant of risk for macular degeneration.
CHICAGO, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Chicago's Rush University Medical Center surgeons say 96 percent of minimally invasive knee replacement patients leave the same day, with no complications.
LONDON, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- British and Belgium scientists report they have identified 570 genes that act abnormally during the development of Parkinson's Disease.
LIVERPOOL, England, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Ophthalmologists at the University of Liverpool have become the first in the world to image geodesic structures -- called CLANs -- inside the human body.
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DUBENDORF, Switzerland, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- A Swiss study indicates motorcycles collectively emit 16 times more hydrocarbons and three times more carbon monoxide than do cars.
GRONINGEN, Netherlands, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- A Dutch scientist says she's discovered that knowing how a mathematical theory developed improves a pupil's understanding of the theory.
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Dutch otolaryngologist Marein van der Torn hopes to develop a prosthesis that will improve the voice of people who have lost their vocal cords.
CHICAGO, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Northwestern Memorial Hospital researchers in Chicago say they've discovered some drug-eluting stents can cause serious allergic reactions.
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Dec. 19 (UPI) -- A University of California-Santa Barbara scientist believes he's discovered why we give to charity: It's in our genes.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Dec. 19 (UPI) -- A University of North Carolina study suggests chlorine is much more effective at killing noroviruses than previously believed.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Oil companies, levees and the burrowing nutria have been blamed for destroying Louisiana's marshes -- and now a new culprit arrives: the periwinkle snail.
President Barack Obama shares a laugh with author with Toni Morrison after awarding her a Presidential Medal of Freedom during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our Nation's highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch
