Science
Image Of Dying 'Hypergiant' Star Captured
MUNICH, Germany, Sept. 28 (UPI) — European astronomers have released a new image of a hypergiant star, a monster star with a diameter a thousand times bigger than the sun. At about 13,000 light years from Earth, it is the closest yellow hypergiant yet observed and new data show it shines about 500,000 times more […]
Competing Quake Predictions Analyzed
DAVIS, Calif., Sept. 28 (UPI) — A competition held by the Southern California Earthquake Center could mean better earthquake forecasts and improve tools for assessing them, officials said. In a study, researchers at the University of California, Davis, compared seven different earthquake forecasts — including their own — that were submitted in the competition launched […]
GOP Urges Caution In Clean Energy Race
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 (UPI) — With billions of dollars of taxpayer money on the line, the U.S. Department of Energy shouldn’t rush out with more clean energy loans, a critic said. Republican critics of U.S. President Barack Obama’s green energy initiatives have drawn a bead on Energy Department loan guarantees to companies working on alternative […]
API Sees Lower Gasoline Demand
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 (UPI) — A struggling U.S. economy is reflected in lower demand for gasoline, which fell by 2 percent compared with 2010, the API said. The global economy continues to limp along as it struggles to emerge from recession. The International Council of Shipping Centers said in a recent report that the “retail […]
Obesity Slows Fat 'Turnover' In The Body
LIVERMORE, Calif., Sept. 26 (UPI) — Obese people have trouble losing weight because their “turnover” rate of fat storage and loss is slower than for average weight people, U.S. researchers say. Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, writing in the journal Nature, report the turnover rate of fat is on average 1 1/2 years […]
Publication Offers Tree-Planting Tips
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Sept. 26 (UPI) — U.S. researchers say that while spring is the traditional planting season it’s not the only season for trees, many of which do better planted in the fall. Researches at Purdue University have released a publication, available free online, meant to provide home owners and arborists with complete information […]
U.S. Women In Science To Get Support
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 (UPI) — The U.S. National Science Foundation says it’s embarking on a 10-year plan to provide greater work-related flexibility to women in research careers. Among the practices to be inaugurated are moves to allow researchers to delay or suspend their research grants for as long as one year so they can care […]
GOP: Environmental Rules Are Job Killers
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 (UPI) — Republican lawmakers took another swipe at President Barack Obama’s environmental regulations by blaming coal mining rules for dimming employment prospects. Regulations for the coal industry are designed to reduce sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions in 27 states. Those pollutants account for high levels of smog and soot. U.S. Rep. […]
Obama Blocking 2010 Gulf Spill Probe?
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 (UPI) — U.S. President Barack Obama is throwing up obstacles to a review of the final report into last year’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a Republican critic said. An oversight hearing at the House Natural Resource Committee was delayed to Oct. 6. U.S. Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., chairman of […]
Exoskeleton Helping Stroke Victims Move
ENSCHEDE, Netherlands, Sept. 23 (UPI) — Scientists and engineers in the Netherlands say their prototype “robot legs” could improve the movement and walking of stoke victims. Developed by researchers at the University of Twente in Enschede, the lower-extremity powered exoskeleton, dubbed LOPES, aims to train a patient’s body and mind to recover a more natural […]
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