Science
Texas Study Suggests Eagle Ford Bonanza
SAN ANTONIO (UPI) — Drilling and production activity in the Eagle Ford shale area could produce more than $60 billion worth of output by 2021, a Texas university study says. The University of Texas at San Antonio’s Institute for Economic Development examined the economic development in 14 counties in south Texas that hold Eagle Ford […]
Study: Social Networking Is Not New
TUCSON (UPI) — Long before Twitter and Facebook, societies maintained social networks even when the only network “traffic” was people moving on foot, U.S. researchers say. Scientists at the University of Arizona studying late pre-Hispanic American Southwest societies said their findings show people of that period were able to maintain surprisingly long-distance relationships with nothing […]
Ship Risks To Whales In Southern California Studied
LOS ANGELES (UPI) — Researchers say they’ve identified areas off Southern California where whales face risks from potentially deadly collisions with commercial ship traffic. Scientists from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration have created maps predicting the density of endangered humpback, fin and blue whales by merging observed whale sightings with oceanographic conditions to identify […]
Google Takes On Swedish Language Watchdog
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (UPI) — Complaints from Google have led to the deletion of the word “ungoogleable” from a list of new Swedish words, the Language Council of Sweden says. The country’s language watchdog has defined “ungoogleable” — “ogooglebar” in Swedish — as something that does not show up in results from any Internet search engine, […]
Two New Species Added To World Lemur Count
DURHAM, N.C. (UPI) — Scientists say genetics have helped them identify two new species of mouse lemur, tiny saucer-eyed primates native to the African island of Madagascar. The finding brings the number of recognized species of the teacup-size creatures — specimens of the new species weigh less than 3 ounces — to 20. Because these […]
EPA: Most U.S. Waters Polluted
WASHINGTON (UPI) — More than half of U.S. rivers, streams and other waterways are in too poor of a condition for aquatic life, the Environmental Protection Agency said. The EPA said most the nation’s streams, rivers and other waters were in poor health. EPA analysis said that 27 percent of the nation’s waterways have high […]
Researchers Looking To Create Human Heart
MADRID (UPI) — Medical researchers in Spain say they are close to being able to grow human hearts for transplants outside the body. Doctors have already grown and transplanted a number of human organs, including windpipes, ears, tear ducts and an artery, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. Now, they want to recreate a heart. […]
Florida Coast Protected For Sea Turtles
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) — Much of Florida’s space coast is being declared “critical habitat” to protect the threatened loggerhead sea turtle, federal wildlife officials said. That means sea walls built below the mean low tide line will face additional scrutiny to preserve habitats for the turtles. Officials said most of the Atlantic coast in […]
U.S. Gasoline Prices In Decline
CAMARILLO, Calif. (UPI) — Retail gasoline prices in the United States are on pace to decline in the short term, Lundberg Survey President Trilby Lundberg said. Motor group AAA reports that U.S. consumers paid Monday, on average, $3.66 for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline. That’s 12 cents cheaper than one month ago and 23 […]
‘Tatooine’ Planet Found Orbiting Two Stars
GRENOBLE, France (UPI) — European astronomers say they’ve captured the first image of a planet orbiting two suns, like the fictional “Tatooine” of the Star Wars films. Philippe Delorme of the Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble, France, and colleagues took the picture of the massive world, dubbed 2MASS0103(AB)b, using a telescope in Chile, NewScientist.com reported […]
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