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STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Dec. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've created a computer program to help predict when icebergs will calve from ice sheets.

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.

CAIRO, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- OPEC's direction at its weekend meeting in Cairo will be muddied by secrecy and ineptitude, an analysis says.

NEW DELHI, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- In order to increase its wind power, India is considering a transmission tariff mechanism.

BEIJING, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- China and Japan have signed contracts to work together toward energy conservation.

VATICAN CITY, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- The Vatican recently inaugurated its new solar power energy system.

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