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CARDIFF, Wales, May 16 (UPI) -- British researchers say new technology can read "unreadable," fragile historic documents that could crack and crumble if unrolled or unfolded.
'Crazy ants' from South America invading southeastern U.S.
AUSTIN, Texas, May 16 (UPI) -- Invasive "crazy ants" displacing native fire ants across the southeastern United States could have dramatic effects on the region's ecosystem, researchers say.
LONDON, May 16 (UPI) -- Four British members of the hacking group Lulzsec, which carried out a series of high profile cyber-attacks in 2011, have been sentenced.
Frogs once used for pregnancy tests said carriers of disease
SAN FRANCISCO, May 16 (UPI) -- African frogs imported into the United States for early 20th century pregnancy tests carried a deadly disease that has decimated amphibians, researchers say.
Hundreds of impacts every year still forming Mars craters
TUCSON, May 15 (UPI) -- U.S. astronomers say images from a spacecraft orbiting Mars suggest the Red Planet is still a target for cosmic impacts, experiencing hundreds each year.
CARDIFF, Wales, May 15 (UPI) -- India's tigers are facing extinction owing to a collapse in the variety of their mating partners and the resultant lack of genetic diversity, scientists say.
VICTORIA, British Columbia, May 15 (UPI) -- Climate change and warming oceans are gradually changing which fish are being featured in seafood markets around the world, Canadian researchers say.
African fossils give new clues to evolutionary split among primates
ATHENS, Ohio, May 15 (UPI) -- Two fossil discoveries in Africa are the oldest evidence yet found of the evolutionary split between Old World monkeys and apes, researchers say.
Huge detector under Antarctic ice may have seen first cosmic neutrinos
MADISON, Wis., May 15 (UPI) -- A giant experiment buried beneath the South Pole's ice has recorded the first neutrinos ever detected originating outside our solar system, researchers say.
TIMMINS, Ontario, May 15 (UPI) -- A reservoir deep underground in Canada holds water that may be 1 billion years old, possibly the oldest water on Earth, researchers say.
New research could create stem cells for disease treatments
PORTLAND, Ore., May 15 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say they've reprogrammed human skin cells to become embryonic stem cells capable of transforming into any other cell type in the body.
Equipment failure jeopardizes planet-hunting space telescope mission
WASHINGTON, May 15 (UPI) -- The future of the planet-hunting Kepler space telescope mission is in jeopardy after a part that helps it point to cosmic targets failed, NASA said Wednesday.
Researchers: Human intelligence not solely result of large brain areas
DURHAM, England, May 15 (UPI) -- Human intelligence can no longer be explained as just the evolutionary increase in the size of the brain's frontal lobes, British researchers say.
Cull of invasive fish pits biologists against anglers in Washington
USK, Wash., May 15 (UPI) -- Officials in Washington are waging a campaign against a non-native fish invading from the East but some anglers say they are opposed to the war on the species.
Ancient marine reptile said 'creature out of its time'
SOUTHAMPTON, England, May 15 (UPI) -- European scientists say a newly identified kind of ichthyosaur, a dolphin-like marine reptile from the age of dinosaurs, gives new insights into the creatures.
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Boeing 787 Dreamliner Returns to Service
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United and Boeing employees perform a ground check on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner after a flight from Houston at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago on May 20, 2013. The Houston-to-Chicago flight landed without incident and marked the return to service of United-owned Dreamliners after the airliner was grounded for 100 days by aviation regulators worldwide due to the overheating of onboard batteries. UPI/Brian Kersey