NUNAWADING, Australia, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Orphan orangutans soon will live only in wildlife sanctuaries because their habitat in Borneo has become too unsafe, an orangutan preservation group said.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A new radar instrument peered through more than a mile of Greenland ice to show an image of the land hidden for millions of years, U.S. researchers said.
BOSTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Scientists at two U.S. universities developed a solution to make tattoos less permanent -- an ink that can be removed with a single laser treatment.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A new, faster way of identifying bacteria such as E. coli could be used for food safety and homeland security, Purdue University researchers said.
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A better determination of where natural disasters are likely to occur is the focus of a project at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
BRASILIA, Brazil, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- More than half of the dust needed to fertilize the rainforest in Brazil comes from a valley in the African country of Chad, researchers said.
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The Czech Republic signed an agreement with the European Southern Observatory to become a member effective Monday.
RICHMOND, Va., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Medical professionals working as a team can reduce rates of bloodstream infection dramatically, two Virginia Commonwealth University physicians said.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The liver transplant program at University of Southern California, known for taking risks, has one of the highest death rates in the nation, data showed.
NASHVILLE, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Research at Tennessee's Vanderbilt University has found that the human brain easily remembers faces over other images and won't initially distinguish beauty.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- By the end of 2007 Polar bears may be listed as a threatened species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, because their habitat is disappearing.
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- The Nepal Medical Association has called off a strike by its doctors that was prompted by an attack in a hospital in Kathmandu.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- A survey by the Rand Corp. and the University of California, Los Angeles, found that few homosexual teenagers tell their doctors of their sexual orientation.
BHOPAL, India, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- The state government of Madhya Pradesh, India, is adopting a family planning program based on a model created by the Pakistani government.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- A study by Pennsylvania researchers has shown that elderly people who take heartburn drugs are more likely to fracture their hips.
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LONDON, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Christmas dinner leftovers may be beneficial to the birds in the garden, Britain's Royal Society for the Protection of Birds said.
AUSTWELL, Texas, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- The yearly migration of the whooping cranes has returned them to Texas's Aransas National Wildlife refugee with 237 of the birds returning.
VORONEZH, Russia, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- The Voronezh region of central Russia is once again seeing an epidemic of hemorrhagic fever, this time affecting the kidneys.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- The Bush administration is calling for polar bears to be listed as a threatened species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
NEW YORK, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- A surge of new brain exercise products is offering baby boomers the hope of sharper minds, The New York Times reported Wednesday.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Dec. 26 (UPI) -- A study done on mice has shown that jet lag may not only be a nuisance to frequent fliers but it could be a health risk.
Former President George W. Bush, joined by his wife Laura Bush, looks at his official White House portrait during it's unveiling ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 31, 2012. UPI/Kevin Dietsch
