MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 24 (UPI) -- For those folks who tend to lose their Androids and worry about data security, U.S. tech giant Google says it has a feature to lock the device from afar.
STANFORD, Calif., Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Global warming may impact weather, possibly causing more severe thunderstorms, which could mean billions of dollars in damages, a U.S. researcher said.
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Thousands of volunteers helped catalog more than 300,000 galaxies, the first time so much galaxy population information was collected, a U.S. researcher said.
WASHINGTON, N.C., Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Al Rossiter Jr., a longtime UPI science writer who became the wire service's executive editor, died in North Carolina, Duke University announced. He was 77.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 24 (UPI) -- A Gmail glitch that affected nearly 50 percent of the webmail service's users for about 10 hours has been fixed, the Mountain View, Calif., company said.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Despite its susceptibility to being hacked, people praise the fingerprint identification system on the iPhone 5S released recently by U.S. tech giant Apple.
HARARE, Zimbabwe, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Poachers killed at least 81 elephants and an unknown number of buffaloes and kudus by planting poison in a Zimbabwe national park, government officials said.
BOSTON, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- David Hubel, a Harvard University scientist and Nobel laureate who helped changed the understanding of the brain, has died at the age of 87, his family said.
BEIJING, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Claims China was looking to hack into U.S. defense networks to steal drone technology are "groundless," a Chinese government spokesman said Tuesday.
EDINBURGH, Scotland, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Wave energy company Pelamis said it completed testing on its next generation of wave power machines that could deploy in Scottish waters.
LONDON, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- Governments must leave fossil fuel reserves in the ground unburned and unexploited to really protect the planet, a senior diplomat from Ireland said Monday.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Sept. 23 (UPI) -- Abatement of greenhouse gas emissions could save between 1.4 million and 3 million premature deaths in the year 2100, a study by a U.S. researcher indicated.
BILBAO, Spain, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- Searching for that perfect wine pairing? Try wine and biodiesel, research from the University of the Basque Country in Spain indicates.
CAIRNS, Australia, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- The last ice age required Aboriginal Australians to concentrate in areas with good food and water supplies, abandoning most of the continent, researchers said.
SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 23 (UPI) -- Four LinkedIn users are suing the business social network of mining their email accounts without permission, then spamming addressees about joining the service.
CUPERTINO, Calif., Sept. 23 (UPI) -- Apple, Inc. sold 9 million of its latest iPhones in the first three days they were on the shelves, a company record, the Cupertino, Calif., company said.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- Most voters said they agree with the Obama administration's decision to tighten controls on U.S. coal plant emissions, a Rasmussen Reports survey indicated.
CUPERTINO, Calif., Sept. 23 (UPI) -- U.S. technology giant Apple said Monday that it sold 9 million iPhones 5s devices during the weekend, breaking the company's own three-day sales record.
Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) speaks to the press after Congress failed to agree to a continuing resolution to fund the government, causing the first government shutdown in 17 years, in Washington, D.C. on October 1, 2013. Boehner was joined by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) (L), House Majority Whip Kevin MCCarthy (R-CA) and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA). UPI/Kevin Dietsch