HOUSTON, June 1 (UPI) -- The silhouette created as Venus transits the face of the sun Tuesday will be widely visible across seven continents, U.S. space officials said.
MIAMI, June 1 (UPI) -- U.S. forecasters say a new statistical model will help determine a hurricane's strength and size as the official 2012 Atlantic hurricane season gets under way.
WASHINGTON, June 1 (UPI) -- The Flame malware attacking computers in Iran and other areas in the Middle East appears to be a collection of existing techniques, a cybersecurity expert said.
LIVERMORE, Calif., May 31 (UPI) -- The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry says the latest heavy elements to be added to the periodic table will be named Flerovium and Livermorium.
BALTIMORE, May 31 (UPI) -- U.S. astronomers are forecasting the Milky Way will have a violent collision with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy in about 4 billion years.
SHAPWICK, England, May 31 (UPI) -- British wildlife researchers say great white egrets are breeding in Britain for the first time, confirming the hatching of a chick at a Somerset nature reserve.
WASHINGTON, May 31 (UPI) -- Many U.S. companies take contradictory actions on climate-change science while devoting resources to influencing the discussion, an advocacy group says.
PHILADELPHIA, May 31 (UPI) -- Humans can identify the age of other humans based on body odor, which can transmit various types of social information, a U.S. study found.
DALLAS, May 31 (UPI) -- NASA says millions of dollars of science equipment missing for four days during shipment from Minneapolis to Texas has been located in Dallas.
NASHVILLE, May 31 (UPI) -- "Supervolcano" eruptions with potential to cause widespread extinctions of life may have surprisingly short fuses, U.S. earth scientists say.
CAMBRIDGE, England, May 30 (UPI) -- A Chinese-made microprocessor used extensively by the U.S. military has a "backdoor" that allows the chip to be reprogrammed, British researchers allege.
MADRID, May 30 (UPI) -- Scientists say a frozen landscape in Canada similar to that on one of Jupiter's moons offers clues for upcoming missions to search for traces of life on Europa.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 30 (UPI) -- A U.S. scientist says he has a theory why a much fainter sun 2 billion years ago didn't leave a frozen Earth unfit to develop the kind of life we see today.
NEW YORK, May 30 (UPI) -- More than 150,000 Americans could die by the end of this century due to the excessive heat caused by climate change, a U.S. environmental advocacy group says.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 30 (UPI) -- A chance discovery of 80-year-old photographs in a Danish basement is providing new insight into how Greenland's glaciers are melting today, researchers say.
BALTIMORE, May 30 (UPI) -- A new way to find a star's age can give clues to how our Milky Way galaxy built itself up over billions of years from smaller galaxies, a U.S. astronomer says.
ITHACA, N.Y., May 30 (UPI) -- The genome of the tomato has been decoded, a step toward improving yield, nutrition, disease resistance, taste and color of the tomato, U.S. researchers say.
EDINBURGH, Scotland, May 30 (UPI) -- Scientists say a study of a meteorite that fell in Australia could give clues to the atmosphere on Mars and help inform future missions looking for life there.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., May 30 (UPI) -- American heads are getting larger although it's unclear why that is happening, forensic anthropologists at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, said.
SYDNEY, May 30 (UPI) -- The universe contains more atomic hydrogen gas -- the fuel that creates stars and galaxies -- than previously believed, an Australian astronomer says.
WATSONVILLE, Calif., May 30 (UPI) -- Observations on the San Andreas Fault near Santa Cruz, Calif., show large earthquakes have occurred more frequently there than previously thought, a study says.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., May 29 (UPI) -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has confirmed the presence of white-nose syndrome in federally listed endangered gray bats in two counties in Tennessee.
CAMBRIDGE, England, May 29 (UPI) -- The survival of meerkats living in clans in South Africa's Kalahari Desert is threatened by inbreeding, researchers conducting a 20-year study say.
LONDON, May 29 (UPI) -- A European contribution to the James Webb Space Telescope left London Heathrow airport Tuesday bound for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, officials said.
Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego, California watches confetti rain down as she wins the two-day Scripps National Spelling Bee championship, May 31, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Nandipati successfully spelled the word .* guetapens *, meaning to lure or ambush. UPI/Mike Theiler
