MIAMI (UPI) — A team of 38 U.S. research divers has completed a 20-day biennial census, measuring how the protected status of the Dry Tortugas is working. In what is called an unprecedented collaboration, researchers from the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Florida Fish and Wildlife […]

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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (UPI) — U.S. medical scientists say they have developed an injectable treatment for severe brain injuries that are due to blunt force trauma. Purdue University researchers Andrew Koob and Richard Borgens said they discovered such an injury can be reduced by application of a simple polymer –polyethylene glycol, or PEG — mixed […]

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WASHINGTON (UPI) — U.S. space agency engineers said final testing has started for the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite that’s to be launched later this year. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration satellite, nicknamed LCROSS, is designed to confirm the presence or absence of water ice in a permanently shadowed lunar crater. NASA said […]

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WASHINGTON (UPI) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the addition of a boxed warning for Regranex (becaplermin) because of an increased risk of cancer mortality. The warning includes updated epidemiological data about the increased risk for diabetic patients who use three or more tubes of the topical cream that’s indicated for the treatment […]

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BALTIMORE (UPI) — U.S. astronomers say they are developing plans to use the new Allen Telescope Array to search for extraterrestrial intelligence in the Milky Way Galaxy. Johns Hopkins University Professor Richard Conn Henry is joining forces with Seth Shostak of the SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) Institute and Steven Kilston of the Henry Foundation […]

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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (UPI) — U.S. scientists report discovering a tiny species of bacteria that has survived for more than 120,000 years within a Greenland glacier. Pennsylvania State University researchers say the bacteria, found at a depth of nearly two miles, are among a type of ultra-small bacteria that can pass through microbiological filters, including […]

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ARMONK, N.Y. (UPI) — IBM scientists in the United States and Israel announced creation of a technology that standardizes the method of sharing health information. Company officials said the first of its kind system was created in collaboration with the Nuclear Threat Initiative’s Global Health and Security Initiative and the Middle East Consortium on Infectious […]

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (UPI) — U.S. physicists say they’ve discovered unusual properties in a novel superconducting material that might lead to an entirely new kind of superconductor. The researchers at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University found the surprising magnetic properties and predict they might have very powerful applications — from improved […]

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) — The U.S. space agency has scheduled Thursday for the launch of its Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said GLAST will be launched aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket. The launch window extends from 11:45 a.m. to 1:40 p.m. EDT daily […]

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TRAIL, British Columbia (UPI) — A smelter leak of acid and a ton of lead into the Columbia River in British Columbia had Canadian and U.S. environmental officials taking water samples Friday. The spill happened in Trail, British Columbia, Wednesday night at the Teck Cominco Metal plant several miles north of the border, and the […]

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