Drug makers halt branded gifts to doctors ... New smoking ban at government offices ... Whole Foods pulls wrongly marked kids food ... Study: Thinking too much leads to obesity .. Health/Science news from UPI.
CAMBRIDGE, England, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- British scientists plan to use a yellow submarine to explore beneath a giant melting Antarctic glacier whose collapse could raise sea levels 4 inches.
HOUSTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The crew aboard the space shuttle Columbia could not have survived its re-entry accident in 2003, a U.S. space agency report released Tuesday indicated.
Study: 435 U.S. schools have air hazards ... Pollution killing Chesapeake blue crabs ... Study: Black U.S. women shrinking ... Book: Soviets stole H-bomb secrets ... Health/Science news from UPI.
OSCEOLA, Wis., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Moscow acquired the secret of the hydrogen bomb from an atomic spy at the Los Alamos weapons lab in New Mexico, a new book says.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- U.S. military rockets can send astronauts safely to the moon sooner and for billions of dollars less than NASA's troubled Ares I rocket, documents suggest.
NORFOLK, Va., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The Chesapeake Bay's blue crab population has been devastated by pollution, overfishing and lax federal oversight, a U.S. environmental group said.
LONDON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The critically endangered Tristan Albatross suffered its worst breeding season ever and is threatened by predatory mice, British researchers report.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The U.S. Agriculture Department's Rural Development said Monday it was accepting applications for the Distance Learning and Telemedicine grant program.
Abstinence pledge ineffective, study shows ... Human hair works as nutrient, study finds ... Female circumcision prevalent in Kurdistan ... Competition may have done in Neanderthals ... Health/Science news from UPI.
STARKSVILLE, Miss., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Human hair, normally swept and tossed from barber and beauty shops, can be used as a nutrient source for container plants, U.S. researchers said.
LAWRENCE, Kan., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Competition with Cro-Magnon populations, not climate change, led to the Neanderthal extinction, a multidisciplinary U.S. and French research team reported.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Teens signing pledges to remain virgins until marriage are likely to engage in premarital sex and more likely not to use birth control, U.S. researchers report.
BAGHDAD, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Female circumcision is widespread in Iraq's Kurdistan region, despite it having what is considered a more progressive society, women's advocacy groups say.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Revisions to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders should be made openly instead of hidden from the public, a critic of the process says.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Long, thick eyelashes may be a chemical treatment away now that the U.S. drug watchdog has approved a prescription medication, the maker says.
DENVER, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- The recent drop in oil prices is not likely to derail the push to develop shale oil deposits in the western United States, an oil executive says.
RALEIGH, N.C., Dec. 28 (UPI) -- The coral reefs covering less than 1 percent of the Earth are disappearing at alarming rates as scientists struggle to learn why, a U.S. researcher says.
BARNSTABLE, Mass., Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Cape Cod Stranding Network coordinator Sarah Herzig says 10 dolphins have been stranded on beaches in the Massachusetts region in recent days.
CANBERRA, Australia, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Submariners in Australia face a slim possibility of deep-sea rescue because the government has been unable to create an adequate system, experts say.
JAKARTA, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Scientists say they're gaining insight into climate change from rapidly recovering tsunami-damaged coral reefs in the Indian Ocean.
LONDON, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- The Natural Trust has given up its battle with the sea on one of England's most famous stretches of coast, allowing Studland Beach in Dorset to erode naturally.
Food safety to take backseat to economy ... Canal would link Dead Sea to Red Sea ... Green energy thwarted by winter ... Harvard researcher quits Shaklee ... Health/Science news from UPI
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
