LOS ANGELES, May 7 (UPI) -- Civil liberty groups are suing two Southern California police agencies over electronic license plate scanner data being stored by law enforcement.
NEW YORK, May 7 (UPI) -- A dinosaur skeleton at the center of an international custody battle and allegations of illegal smuggling is on its way back to Mongolia, U.S. officials say.
BERLIN, May 7 (UPI) -- A dramatic decline in the number of arctic foxes on a Russian island is linked to dangerous levels of mercury in marine prey, researchers say.
PARIS, May 7 (UPI) -- The European Space Agency says it has selected a satellite that can "weigh" the Earth's forests -- their biomass -- as its next Earth Explorer mission.
SYDNEY, May 7 (UPI) -- Most species of gigantic animals that once roamed Australia disappeared because of climate change, not human activity, researchers say.
ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 7 (UPI) -- Generation X members are earning graduate and professional degrees at a higher rate than any previous generation, University of Michigan researchers report.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 7 (UPI) -- Google's latest computerized device, the Google Glass, is likely to run into widespread legal challenges, attorneys and market observers say.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand, May 6 (UPI) -- New Zealanders burning treated timber remnants as a cheap way to heat homes have pushed airborne arsenic levels above guidelines, government researchers said.
BEIJING, May 6 (UPI) -- A fossilized elephant tusk at least 10,000 years old has been discovered in eastern China's Anhui province, local authorities said Monday.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 6 (UPI) -- Google has updated it Gmail app for iOS so that links in emails will open in the necessary Google apps like YouTube and Maps if they're installed on the iPhone.
OXFORD, England, May 6 (UPI) -- A British academic says evidence suggests the fabled Hanging Garden of Babylon did in fact exist -- but it was in Nineva, 300 miles away.
READING, England, May 6 (UPI) -- Languages spoken by billions of people in Europe and Asia have been traced to single mother tongue used in southern Europe 15,000 years ago, researchers say.
OSLO, Norway, May 6 (UPI) -- Carbon dioxide emissions are making arctic seas more acidic, something that would take tens of thousands of years to reverse, researchers say.
LEICESTER, England, May 6 (UPI) -- A British archaeological unit that unearthed England's King Richard III says another dig has discovered a 1,700-year-old Roman cemetery in Leicester.
GOTEBORG, Sweden, May 6 (UPI) -- An invisible pattern in fabrics with a special thread visible only under polarized light can help combat counterfeit garments, a Swedish researcher says.
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