BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Nov. 14 (UPI) -- A 1.2 million-year-old pelvis found in Ethiopia provides new insight into the size of ancient newborns, an Indiana University paleoanthropologist said.
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SANTIAGO, Chile, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Chile's health minister said the country's public and private health systems failed to notify nearly 2,000 people they were infected with HIV.
JERUSALEM, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- A Tel-Aviv University anthropologist in Israel said he believes early Hebrews looked more like black Africans than the people who now live in the Middle East.
LONDON, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Britain's High Court has ruled the government needs to provide better protection to people in rural areas who are exposed to crop sprays.
BANGALORE, India, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Chandrayaan-1 launched and landed its lunar probe Friday admitting India to the select group of countries that have put their hardware on the moon.
MIAMI, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- U.S. District Judge Ursula Ungaro has granted a preliminary injunction sought by the Miccosukee Tribe to stop the overhaul of the Tamiami Trail in Florida.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- Officials in Ohio are urging residents not to sweep their leaves into the street for collection because they can wash into streams and kill fish.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Nov. 13 (UPI) -- U.S. commercial television broadcasters are doing a poor job of providing quality children's educational programming, the advocacy group Children's Now says.
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers said matching heart transplant patients to donors of the same gender results in better long-term survival.
BOSTON, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- Research suggests a large waistline doubles the risk of dying prematurely, a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine said.
LONDON, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- The London Zoo is celebrating eight blessed events -- the hatching of a clutch of rhino rat snakes, a rare species from Southeast Asia.
BEIJING, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- A thick layer of soot and manmade particles stretches across parts of India and China, clouding the sky in some areas, a U.N. report said Thursday.
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PITTSBURGH, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists studying 10 of the world's most popular approved pesticides say, when combined, the chemicals caused 99 percent mortality in tadpoles.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Nov. 13 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say they have created a compound that prevents replication of the virus that causes SARS and could lead to a treatment for the disease.
PASADENA, Calif., Nov. 13 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says its Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first visible-light snapshot of a planet circling another star.
BERLIN, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- A German-led study suggests a new blood test better identifies heart failure patients presenting in hospital emergency departments than current tests.
NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- A United Nations Environmental Program report says cities across Asia are becoming darker due, in part, to greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere.
