CHICAGO, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Ohio, Michigan and Minnesota have joined forces to seal Illinois waterways from the Great Lakes in a fight against an invasive carp, officials said.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The nuclear reactor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology won't be converted to a safer fuel for at least five years, authorities said.
MIAMI, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Allowing the Seminole Tribe to expand a rock mine in Broward County would further threaten the endangered Florida panther, an environmental group said.
SEATTLE, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The stereotype of computer scientists as nerds who stay up at night coding and have no social life may drive women from the field, U.S. researchers suggest.
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 28 (UPI) -- The first transistor from a single molecule has been created by attaching a benzene molecule to gold contacts, scientists from Connecticut said.
MADISON, Wis., Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Ancient bright stars known as "blue stragglers" likely increase their mass by stealing fuel from companion stars, astronomers in Wisconsin said.
NEWCASTLE, England, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Soil studies show antibiotic resistance in nature is growing despite tighter control over antibiotic use in medicine and agriculture, British scientists said.
JUNEAU, Alaska, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Melting glacial ice in the Gulf of Alaska affects the marine food chain from microbes to the fish that feed on them, scientists said.
CHICAGO, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- The discovery of gene mutations linked to two nerve disorders could lead to a new understanding of how nerves stimulate muscles, scientists in Chicago said.
MIAMI, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- More colleges in Florida say they're adding outdoor smoking to their ban on indoor smoking to reduce second-hand smoke and litter.
CHICAGO, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants in Illinois increased 7 percent last year while declining 4 percent overall in the United States, officials say.
TUCSON, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Tucson's push to use rainwater to meet landscaping needs could serve as a model for dry regions throughout the nation, Arizona environmentalists said.
PASADENA, Calif., Dec. 27 (UPI) -- New U.S. scientific findings suggest that climate change may be affecting aquatic environments faster and sooner than the atmosphere.
LONDON, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- An explosives expert in London says PETN, or pentaerythritol tetranitrate, is an ideal explosive for terrorists because it is powerful and hard to detect.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Three space missions in 2010 aim to learn more about the sun, and the climate and the oceans of Earth, NASA officials said.
KATUMANI, Kenya, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Refurbished computers are changing the fortunes of farmers in central Kenya by accurately and instantly predicting the weather, officials said.
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BERKELEY, Calif., Dec. 24 (UPI) -- The tug of the sun and the moon are causing tremors nearly 15 miles below the surface of the San Andreas fault, scientists in California said.
EVANSTON, Ill., Dec. 24 (UPI) -- The world's thinnest material is being studied with a dye used to stain the Chicago River green on St. Patrick's Day, scientists in Illinois said.
EXETER, England, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- The invasive American mink has become increasingly dependent on seafood from the coastline of Scotland's Outer Hebrides, scientists in Britain said.
LIBREVILLE, Gabon, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Two endangered female leatherback turtles have traveled 800 miles since being released off Gabon Dec. 7, scientists say satellite tracking devices indicate.
LARAMIE, Wyo., Dec. 24 (UPI) -- A sticky compound in spider webs could lead to the development of a new generation of non-petroleum adhesives and glues, scientists in Wyoming said.
NAZARETH, Israel, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Archeologists in the Holy Land say they have uncovered a home in Nazareth, Israel, not seen since the time of Jesus more than 2,000 years ago.
CHICAGO, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- A high school senior and a 2-year-old are sharing a liver after an 8-hour surgery at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, officials said.
A one-of-a-kind 8 x 4 foot portrait of Marilyn Monroe made from 2,100 bite sized stuffed cupcakes stands in the lobby next to her wax figure on the eve of Marilyn Monroe's 86th birthday at Madame Tussauds in New York City on May 31, 2012. UPI/John Angelillo
