TUSCALOOSA, Ala., Nov. 20 (UPI) -- The worst day for car crashes in Alabama was the day before Thanksgiving, three times greater than on Thanksgiving itself, a University of Alabama study found.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- The number of girls under age 18 arrested for violent crimes fell 17 percent from a decade earlier, U.S. Justice Department research says.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- The U.S. Environmental Portection Agency is seeking public review and comment on a petition asking the agency to classify nanoscale silver as a pesticide.
OLYMPIA, Wash., Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Health officials in Washington state say dozens of illnesses and injuries due to exposure to bug bombs have been reported since 2005.
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, who performed the first human heart transplant in the United States, has died of heart failure in Ann Arbor, Mich., at age 90.
ATLANTA, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- A computer model based on online searches about the flu can offer real-time weekly levels of flu activity, the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta reports.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Nov. 19 (UPI) -- An international team led by a U.S. researcher has completed genome sequencing for an extinct animal, offering insight into its modern-day cousin.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., Nov. 19 (UPI) -- U.S. giant Johnson & Johnson said it pulled an online ad for Motrin pain reliever after consumers protested that the ad callously portrayed women's pain.
SEATTLE, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Cigarette smoking dropped by roughly 28 percent during the decade since the landmark settlement with the U.S. tobacco industry was reached, officials say.
NEW YORK, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Scientists at Columbia University say an injection of testosterone may cure "werewolf syndrome," in which the sufferer's face and body are covered in hair.
LONDON, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Efforts are under way to try to save a plot of land described as one of Britain's top three habitats for insects from becoming a truck park and warehouse.
PORTREE, Scotland, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Fossils found on the Isle of Skye indicate a primitive turtle may have moved from land to water 164 million years ago, scientists said.
NEW YORK, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- The herbal supplement ginkgo biloba, popular among U.S. adults hoping to improve their memory, doesn't appear to delay or prevent dementia, a study indicates.
NEW YORK, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- A drug touted as a safer, gentler way to treat cancer increases the risk of blood clots, a U.S. study in the Journal of the American Medical Association said.
BARCELONA, Spain, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- The first successful human windpipe transplant using the patient's stem cells was completed in Spain, physicians at four European universities announced.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration opened three offices in China this week as part of an effort to improve the safety of food imported from the Asian nation.
HOUSTON, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- A tool bag floated away in space as U.S. astronaut Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper worked outside the International Space Station Tuesday.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 18 (UPI) -- Any financial aid to U.S. automakers should be tied to better fuel efficiency to boost energy independence and the economy, a scientific organization said.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- A group of primates in Indonesia that hasn't been seen alive in 85 years has been rediscovered by a team fromTexas A&M University.
PISA, Italy, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- Italian explorers and geologists in the Antarctic report finding the world's largest and oldest cache of meteorite particles.
ADELAIDE, Austria, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- The oldest known nuclear family was killed in a violent struggle, an analysis of the 4,600-year-old remains buried in Germany indicate.
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
