FORT COLLINS, Colo. (UPI) — U.S. hurricane experts William Gray and Philip Klotzbach say they expect a busy 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, with as many as 15 named storms. The Colorado State University scientists in their April forecast said they also anticipate an above average probability of major hurricanes making landfall in the United States. […]

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ANN ARBOR, Mich. (UPI) — Married women perform seven more hours of housework weekly than single women, University of Michigan researchers say. The researchers said their study suggested the average amount of housework women do weekly dropped from 26 hours in 1976 to 17 hours in 2005, while men’s contributions to housework has risen from […]

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Japan’s prime minister from 1998 to 2000, Keizo Obuchi, wrote an article in the International Herald Tribune that provides us with three quick leadership lessons. He writes: “The systems and processes that made us so successful in the past no longer work. They have become heavy shackles that hold us down. It is not easy […]

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EXETER, England (UPI) — British scientists who last year identified the first common version of a gene influencing height have now identified 20 genome regions that do the same. The researchers said the findings in independent studies from Peninsula Medical School in Exeter and the University of Oxford mean scientists now know of dozens of […]

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NEW HAVEN, Conn. (UPI) — Yale University scientists in Connecticut said rare genetic variants can be associated with a dramatically lower risk of high blood pressure. The researchers say their finding that rare mutations might collectively play a large part in the development of common, yet complex, diseases such as hypertension also has implications for […]

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Watch Video Animations of U.S. Carbon Dioxide Pollution Just where is all that global warming pollution coming from? The Northeast pumps out an awful lot of carbon dioxide, but the Southeast, Midwest and Southern California are also responsible for voluminous pollution that billows out each day. The precise sources of carbon dioxide have now been […]

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) — Now that the latest space shuttle Endeavour mission is completed, the U.S. space agency said it’s preparing for the May launch of space shuttle Discovery. National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials said Discovery’s two solid rocket boosters and 15-story external tank are undergoing final work and checkouts in the Kennedy […]

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PRINCETON, N.J. (UPI) — U.S. molecular biologists have determined proteins found in the intestines of some ants might be used to create new antibiotics for gram-negative bacteria. Princeton University researcher Natividad Ruiz, lead author of the study, and his colleagues discovered two key proteins guide one of the two groups of pathogenic bacteria that make […]

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DURHAM, N.C. (UPI) — Being born prematurely can impact how well people do in school and their ability to have children, a study by U.S. and Norwegian researchers said. Lead author Dr. Geeta Swamy of Duke University Medical Center said premature birth — before 37 weeks of gestation — is the leading cause of infant […]

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