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NASA: Shuttle retirement project on track
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 6 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says it historic fleet of retired space shuttles will all be in their new, permanent display homes by the end of the year.
NEWARK, Calif., March 6 (UPI) -- A California startup company says its electric-vehicle batteries will provide longer range, a longer overall life, and are affordable, quick-charging and safe.
WASHINGTON, March 6 (UPI) -- The first American settlers came from Europe rather than across the Bering land bridge from Siberia to Alaska, a new book proposes.
BEIJING, March 6 (UPI) -- A leading Chinese scientist has expressed confidence in China's nuclear power industry, saying the country's nuclear power stations are safe.
MOSCOW, March 6 (UPI) -- Russia says it is building a humanoid robot to work in orbit on the International Space Station within two years, its first space robot in two decades.
Moon to blame for sinking of Titanic?
SAN MARCOS, Texas, March 6 (UPI) -- While no one denies an iceberg sank the liner Titanic 100 year ago, there may have been another culprit that put it there, U.S. scientists say -- the moon.
Google combines services as 'Google Play'
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 6 (UPI) -- Google says it is unifying its digital offerings into a single cloud-based site, an online marketplace to be known as Google Play.
LONDON, March 6 (UPI) -- Two British Internet service providers have lost an appeal over controversial measures to curb online piracy of copyrighted material.
Rare monkeys in China to be protected
BEIJING, March 6 (UPI) -- China says a new research center will be built to protect the country's rare golden monkeys.
Foot fossil dates life's emergence on land
BURNMOUTH, Scotland, March 6 (UPI) -- A fossil foot found in Scotland pushes back the timeline for the appearance of the first four-legged creatures to spend their lives on dry land, scientists say.
Antarctica sees an influx of invading life
STELLENBOSCH, South Africa, March 6 (UPI) -- Antarctica is being invaded by alien plants and tiny animals inadvertently carried in by scientist and tourists visiting the continent, researchers say.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 6 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say climate change may bring unsustainable demands on the world's groundwater supply for agriculture, industry and drinking water.
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., March 6 (UPI) -- Researchers say a nearly 13,000-year-old layer of thin, dark sediment buried in the floor of a lake in central Mexico suggests a cosmic body crashed into Earth.
Fossils show dinosaur predators scavenged
DUBLIN, Ireland, March 6 (UPI) -- A fossil find suggests specialized dinosaur predators didn't turn down free meals and would resort to scavenging any available carcass, Irish researchers say.
Global warming called threat to ice hockey
OTTAWA, March 6 (UPI) -- The future of Canada's iconic national sport -- ice hockey -- is under threat from human-caused climate change, researchers say.
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