ABERDEEN, Scotland, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have used laboratory techniques and sediment cores from the ocean to help explain the how rivers have changed course over millions of years.
PARIS, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- The European Space Agency's SMART-1 spacecraft has been surveying the Moon's surface in visible and near-infrared light using a new technique.
DURHAM, N.C., Dec. 23 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists used the self-assembling properties of DNA to mass-produce nanometer-scale structures on which patterns of molecules can be specified.
Britons urged to take malaria precautions ... Workers exposed to plutonium at Los Alamos ... Results still out on 'arsenic eating' fern ... Footprints some 20,000 years old studied
CALCUTTA, India, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- The successful launch Thursday of India's heaviest satellite from spaceport of Kourou in French Guyana may have boosted the country's space research efforts to
SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 23 (UPI) -- The WiMax Forum hasn't confirmed or denied reports that the first certifications for products will be unveiled next month.
LONDON, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- British health officials have renewed warnings that people traveling to malaria-affected areas should take medication to avert the disease.
LOS ALAMOS, Calif., Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Five workers at New Mexico's Los Alamos National Laboratory are being monitored after an accident resulted in plutonium being found inside their noses.
OLYMPIA, Wash., Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Washington state researchers say a preliminary analysis found that a subtropical fern planted in an arsenic polluted area did absorb the pollutant.
ROBINA, Australia, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- About 450 footprints of humans and wildlife running and walking dating back 19,000 to 23,000 years have been confirmed in Australia. Steve Webb, of Bond University, in Robina, Queensland, told the Sydney Morning Herald he learned of the site from an Abori
BEIJING, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- China's recent decision to move forward with third-generation wireless licensing might have been prompted by successful trials of homegrown technology.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- A Christian cell-phone service has been launched in the United States containing inspirational messages, ringtones and other features.
AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Telecom New Zealand says it has reached its goal of supplying third-generation mobile telephone service to nearly the entire nation by Christmas.
BANGALORE, India, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- India's latest communications satellite was in orbit and transmitting normally Friday following its launch from French Guiana.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- China has become de facto the factory to the world, while multinational corporations ignore India as a country to base their customer service operations at thei
CHICAGO, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Predictions that the maker of BlackBerry wireless e-mail technology was about to collapse due to protracted and bitter patent litigation were premature, experts
FRAMINGHAM, Mass., Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Comcast remains the biggest U.S. cable provider, but SBC has been growing rapidly in the latest quarter, a research group found Friday.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Google and Microsoft settled out of court on litigation that has kept a former Microsoft executive from heading Google's China unit.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Ericsson said Friday it won a contract from Surinam's Telesur to provide an Internet network together with Cisco Systems.
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
