NEW YORK, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- Chemo brain -- reduced cognitive abilities because of chemotherapy treatment of cancer -- can improve with computer-based training, U.S. researchers say.
AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- U.S., U.K. and Australian scientists will explore two of the last uncharted regions of Earth: the Aurora and Wilkes Subglacial Basins in Antarctica.
MONTPELLIER, France, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- French medical scientists say they've identified patterns of gene expression that can predict response to treatment of advanced metastatic colorectal cancer.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says Armadillo Aerospace of Rockwall, Texas, has won $350,000 in prize money in the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge.
DENVER, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've developed a simple gene-based blood test that can more accurately and quickly measure cystic fibrosis patients' therapy response.
MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've found a link between gene variations and cancer survival that might impact multiple myeloma and other disease treatments.
LONDON, Ontario, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- The University of Western Ontario Meteor Group says it has captured, for the second time this year, rare video footage of a meteor falling to Earth.
ITHACA, N.Y., Oct. 27 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have developed a method that makes and patterns nanoscale wires and other devices now made with expensive lithographic tools.
HEIDELBERG, Germany, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- German scientists say they've developed technology that allows paraplegics paralyzed from the hips down to wirelessly operate the right pedal of a piano.
PARIS, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- The European Space Agency says the launch of its GOCE Earth Explorer satellite will not take place earlier than February due to a system failure.
DENVER, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists are studying an investigational emphysema treatment that involves using stents to create new pathways for air in diseased lungs.
SAUSALITO, Calif., Oct. 27 (UPI) -- U.S. marine biologists say they have initiated a study of the increased incidence of leptospirosis cases in wild California sea lions.
CLEVELAND, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- A U.S. scientist has developed a technology he says can provide 3-D optical imaging of such anisotropic fluids as liquid crystals.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- U.S. doctors' ability to screen fetuses for more genetic abnormalities has raised concern the advances could result in more abortions, experts say.
JACKSON, Wyo., Oct. 26 (UPI) -- Wolves still generate controversy and litigation 13 years after being reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park, U.S. wildlife officials say.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Oct. 26 (UPI) -- More problems have been found with the design of the next-generation manned U.S. spacecraft launch rocket, leading some to wonder if it will ever be built.
SEATTLE, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- Seven orcas have disappeared from Washington's Puget Sound, and experts fear they have died, victims of a declining population of Chinook salmon.
AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- A kakapo, a member of one of the rarest bird species on Earth, is to be released into the wild after being treated for lead poisoning at a New Zealand zoo.
TAIYUAN, China, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- China said Saturday scientists have launched a scientific research satellite from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Shanxi province.
LONDON, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- British scientists said a new genetic test can screen embryos for almost any known genetic disease in embryos that are just days old.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- A U.S. Food and Drug Administration assessment of bisphenol-A was based on plastics industry reports, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel said.
BRISBANE, Australia, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- The Australian state of Queensland may regulate agricultural runoff to protect the Great Barrier Reef, one of the world's great natural wonders.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- U.S. space officials reactivated the Hubble space telescope's instrument panel Thursday in an effort to get the telescope transmitting again.
CAMBRIDGE, England, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- Physicist Stephen Hawking will retire his post in 2009 as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Britain's Cambridge University, the university said.
