ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- Pakistan has vowed to not roll back new telecommunications policies that improved transparency and consistency in the sector.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Children like sweets, and sweets act as an analgesic; now scientists say that analgesic efficacy depends on a child's weight and liking for sweets.
URBANA, Ill., Dec. 15 (UPI) -- University of Illinois scientists say they've developed a fully stretchable form of single-crystal silicon with micron-sized, wave-like geometries.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Dec. 15 (UPI) -- A Florida State University study suggests parents may be inadvertently teaching body image stereotypes even when their children are still using high chairs.
EDMONTON, Alberta, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- University of Alberta scientists have developed a technique to help people master verbal French to learn to write the language using the Web.
DAVIS, Calif., Dec. 14 (UPI) -- A University of California-Davis scientist is criticizing the British practice of killing wild badgers to prevent tuberculosis in cattle.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Scientists at San Francisco's Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease say they have discovered a causative factor for Alzheimer's disease.
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DALLAS, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- The Dallas-based American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology have published Peripheral Arterial Disease Guidelines.
SEATTLE, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- An encounter with a giant earthworm and the army ants pursuing it has resulted in a new theory about the origin of the ants' cooperative hunting behavior.
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 15 (UPI) -- A Yale University astronomer says more than half of the largest galaxies in the near universe have collided and merged during the past 2 billion years. Pieter van Dokkum, assistant professor of astronomy, used hundreds of images from two of the deepest sk
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Dec. 15 (UPI) -- University of Virginia scientists say a baseball player's batting average correlates with the player's ability to perceive ball size.
MARSEILLE, France, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- University of the Mediterranean scientists have found evidence of typhus and trench fever in pulp from the teeth of Napoleonic soldiers. Dr. Dadier Raoultwho used the dental pulp from the soldiers who died during Napoleon's disastrous retreat from Russia
CALCUTTA, India, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- What could be the cheapest mode of communication, tying a note to a homing pigeon or making a mobile call? Ask this of Tata Teleservices, one of India's most ag
ATHENS, Ohio, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- An Ohio University study suggests bats not only use echoes to determine their physical environment, but also have touch-sensitive receptors on their wings. Neurobiology Professor John Zook says the wing receptors assist the bats in maintaining altitude an
DURHAM, N.C., Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Duke University researchers suggest an emphasis on individuality in college admission testing disadvantages minority students.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Penn State University researchers have determined pet owners can't resolve storm phobia in their dogs, but having a multi-dog home may reduce stress. The study is among the first to measure, non-invasively, the production of a specific stress hormone prod
DES MOINES, Iowa, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Research by Drake University psychology professors suggests the more mental mistakes gamblers make, the more they bet.
ATLANTA, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Three U.S. appellate judges indicate a Georgia judge erred in ruling the placement of evolution disclaimer stickers in science books is unconstitutional.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- NASA and Homeland Security officials have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate and coordinate research and development projects.
ATLANTA, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Georgia Tech biologists are supporting a controversial theory that has divided the fields of evolutionary genomics and developmental biology for two years. Researchers say the size and complexity of a species' genome is not an evolutionary adaptation, but
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Three independent analyses of the New Madrid seismic zone centered in Missouri indicates the fault line indicates little or no movement.
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Seoul National University Professor Hwang Woo-suk, a famed South Korean stem cell research pioneer, has reportedly admitted publishing faked studies.
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
