WOODS HOLE, Mass., Nov. 24 (UPI) -- The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution says it has created an educational Web site to help people prepare for and survive a tsunami.
TOFTE, Norway, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- A Norwegian power company announced Tuesday Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit will head the opening of the world's first osmotic power plant.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the recall of some large seedless watermelons in California and Texas due to possible bacterial contamination.
HOUSTON, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- NASA said there was another false fire alarm Tuesday morning aboard the International Space Station -- the third such false alarm during the STS-129 mission.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Social networking sites, such as Facebook and MySpace, help young users form their social identity as they grow into adulthood, U.S. sociologists said.
CLEMSON, S.C., Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Clemson University says it has received a $45 million grant from the U.S. Energy Department to build and operate a large-scale wind turbine testing facility.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Nov. 24 (UPI) -- An Australian-led study has provided evidence a super-sized volcano eruption 73,000 years ago deforested much of central India.
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GENEVA, Switzerland, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider, located underground near the French-Swiss border, say proton beams have collided for the first time in the machine.
HOUSTON, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- U.S. space shuttle Atlantis astronauts Randy Bresnik and Robert Satcher Jr. finished the last spacewalk of the STS-129 mission Monday in 5 hours and 42 minutes.
LA JOLLA, Calif., Nov. 23 (UPI) -- A team of scientists led by the Scripps Research Institute says it has discovered a direct link between insulin and core body temperature.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Nov. 23 (UPI) -- Purdue University scientists say they'll use a $1.3 million grant to help further students' understanding of the role animals play in keeping people healthy.
FLORENCE, Italy, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- The director of a museum in Florence, Italy, said two fingers taken from Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei in 1737 have been rediscovered.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the voluntary recall of some Shedd's Country Crock-brand side dish products due to a labeling error.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- UCLA medical scientists say they have created a silicon chip with nano-sized features that can capture circulating tumor cells in a patient's bloodstream.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Nov. 23 (UPI) -- Purdue University scientists say they've shown how an experimental drug might restore the function of nerves damaged in spinal cord injuries.
DALLAS, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- U.S. surgeons say a review of cases in which surgeons had to remove the lower portion of the body from the waist down casts favorable light on the procedure.
MONTREAL, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- A Canadian-led team of researchers is urging creation of better quality diagnostic studies for tuberculosis, malaria and human immunodeficiency virus tests.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says the Procter & Gamble Co. is voluntarily recalling three lots of its Vicks Sinex nasal spray in three countries.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the recall of Majesty-brand cantaloupes due to possible salmonella contamination.
TITUSVILLE, Fla., Nov. 23 (UPI) -- NASA says it has awarded Peter Homer of Southwest Harbor, Maine, a $250,000 first-place prize for developing more flexible space gloves for use by astronauts.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the recall of Superior-brand lemon pepper and Cajun style marinated catfish due to a labeling error.
HOUSTON, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Astronauts aboard the International Space Station Saturday moved cargo from the shuttle Atlantis after a false alarm delayed a spacewalk, NASA said.
