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WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Energy says it has selected six university-proposed projects under its University Coal Research Program.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a report on the year-long implementation of its Food Protection Plan to protect domestic and imported foods.

BEIJING, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- The Chinese Space Technology Academy announced the Monday launch of a remote sensing satellite, sent aloft on a Long March-2D carrier rocket.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- Botanists say they're puzzled about why oak trees from Virginia to Kansas and north to Nova Scotia failed to produce acorns this year.

LOS ANGELES , Nov. 30 (UPI) -- Searching the Internet exercises the brains of older people by activating their neural circuitry, says UCLA's Memory & Aging Research Center.

CLEVELAND, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- A dinosaur skeleton that vanished from Mongolia likely was sold on the black market, says a fossil hunter from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 29 (UPI) -- A Colorado company is offering a new service for parents -- genetic testing to determine if they should steer their toddlers toward speed or endurance sports.

BRASILIA, Brazil, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- A Brazilian official says deforestation of the Amazon rain forest increased by nearly 4 percent in the year up to July, the first increase in four years' time.

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MADISON, Wis., Nov. 28 (UPI) -- Five astronomy students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have carried their research to unexpected heights -- they found a galaxy.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- Doctors predict that spray-on skin cells will be used as a common form of sore treatment in the Swedish healthcare system within a few years.

SYDNEY, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- Australian infants with a severe form of epilepsy risk having their diagnoses delayed because of a company's patent on a key gene, a hospital official says.

LONDON, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- British twins Samantha and Jennifer Bennett are flashing chubby-cheek smiles, acting like happy babies these days after pioneering surgery, their parents say.

BRUSSELS, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- The European Commission has accused drug companies of blocking the entry of cheaper generic drugs into Europe, adding billions to the cost of medicine.

NEW YORK, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- High-tech heart scans fail in some cases to detect artery blockages and at other times can misidentify blockages that don't exist, a study found.