BOULDER, Colo., Dec. 16 (UPI) -- University of Colorado-Boulder scientists say they've discovered part of Alaska's northern coast is eroding at a rate of up to 45 feet annually.
TORONTO, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- Some 700 people in the Canadian province of Ontario have been approved to install rooftop solar panels to feed electricity back into the power grid.
EDMONTON, Alberta, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- Three University of Alberta paleontology graduate students have confirmed an 85-year-old dinosaur find, discrediting a 1970s revision of the discovery.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- NASA says it has awarded $12.1 million in grants to U.S. public schools, state-based education leadership programs and not-for-profit education organizations.
BOSTON, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- High levels of the hormone leptin have been linked to lower rates of Alzheimer's disease, researchers in Boston have discovered.
Methane study favors life on Mars theory … Bullying bystanders suffer too … NASA sees major Calif. ground water loss … A new target found for lymphoma therapy ... Health/Science news from UPI.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency and Saudi Arabia say they've signed a joint agreement calling for collaboration in lunar and asteroid science research.
BANGALORE, India, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Scientists in India say an injection of nerve cells into damaged areas of the brains of rats restores the animals' spatial memory and their ability to learn.
PASADENA, Calif., Dec. 15 (UPI) -- NASA says its Aqua spacecraft is now producing daily global measurements of carbon dioxide occurring in a key part of the Earth's atmosphere.
NEW YORK, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- U.S. and Chinese scientists say black soot deposited on Tibetan glaciers has contributed greatly to the retreat of the world's largest non-polar ice masses.
SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- University of Utah scientists say seismic images of the plumbing feeding the Yellowstone supervolcano show a magma plume much larger than previously thought.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it's opened a Mexico City post to help boost U.S. food and medical product safety by working with Mexican officials.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Dec. 15 (UPI) -- A Purdue University scientist says he has determined urbanization and other man-made landscape changes increases monsoon rainfall amounts.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced approval of a generic version of Aricept to treat dementia related to Alzheimer's disease.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the recall of various brands of dietary supplements sold to promote sexual enhancement.
ITHACA, N.Y., Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Cornell University scientists say they've discovered female birds in species that breed in groups can evolve the same kinds of sexual embellishments as males.
TONAWANDA, N.Y., Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Simple Foods Inc. of Tonawanda, N.Y., recalled a variety of carob products because of undeclared milk that poses a health hazard to people with dairy allergies.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Record levels of algae have plagued U.S. coastal areas this year, sickening swimmers and hampering shellfish harvests, oceanographers say.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Scientists say the sea-level rise along the U.S. Atlantic Coast was 2 millimeters faster during the 20th century than at any time in 4,000 years.
BOSTON, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- U.S. cancer researchers say they've found a link between a common mutation that can lead to cancer and a distant gene regulator that enhances its activity.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala., Dec. 15 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists who used worms in a study of epilepsy say their results might lead to new drugs targeted to resolve epileptic seizures.
LONDON, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Imperial College London scientists say they have ruled out the possibility that methane is delivered by meteorites into Mars' atmosphere.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says new satellite data show a major loss of water from aquifers in California's primary agricultural region.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- U.S. Food and Drug Administration researchers say they have identified a new magnetic resonance imaging safety risk for patients with pacemakers.
Contestants (L-R) Cooper Barth of West Long Branch, New Jersey, Eboseremhen Eigbe of Galloway, New Jersey, Jacob Bayly Hunter of Sante Fe, New Mexico and Massound Sharif of Albany, New York, all await their turns to compete during the 3rd round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. UPI/Mike Theiler
