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(AP) -- Members of Congress are demanding emergency action to prevent Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes and devastating their $7 billion fishery. http://www.physorg.com/news179857681.html Biology Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:00:01 EST news179857681 (AP) -- After nearly four decades as a fishing guide on the Great Lakes, Pat Chrysler has seen enough damage from invasive species to fear what giant, ravenous Asian carp could do to the nation's largest bodies of freshwater. http://www.physorg.com/news179679229.html Biology Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:30:01 EST news179679229 (AP) -- No Asian carp have been spotted so far in a Chicago canal during a massive fish kill aimed at trying to keep the giant fish out of the Great Lakes. http://www.physorg.com/news179087700.html Biology Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:50:01 EST news179087700 Coral reef fish can undergo a personality change in warmer water, according to an intriguing new study suggesting that climate change may make some species more aggressive. http://www.physorg.com/news179059979.html Biology Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:54:15 EST news179059979 (AP) -- Fears that giant, voracious species of carp will get into the Great Lakes and wipe out other fish have led to rising demands that the government close the waterway connecting the lakes to the Mississippi River - an unprecedented step that could disrupt the movement of millions of tons of iron ore, coal, grain and other goods. http://www.physorg.com/news179002734.html Space & Earth Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:50:05 EST news179002734 The largest fish kill in Illinois history -- expected to net 100 tons of fish including, hopefully, some Asian carp -- is to start Wednesday south of Chicago in an attempt to make sure none of the feared carp make it past an electric barrier while it is shut down for maintenance. http://www.physorg.com/news178952297.html Biology Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:58:48 EST news178952297 Johan Wesselink of the University of Twente, The Netherlands, has developed a device to actively combat noise nuisance. This invention curtails sound waves and vibrations by producing anti-noise. The researcher is confident that his device will be used in the transport and industrial sectors within a matter of years. http://www.physorg.com/news178903738.html Technology Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:29:47 EST news178903738 Two feared species of Asian carp have zoomed beyond the $9 million electric barriers built to keep them out of Lake Michigan. Now, the only thing left between the carp and the Great Lakes is a lock and dam in southern Chicago. http://www.physorg.com/news178315636.html Biology Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:40:01 EST news178315636 IBM Researchers are helping to break the language barrier with the advent of technology dubbed "n.Fluent" -- smart software that translates text between English and 11 other languages. IBM employees use it to instantaneously translate electronic documents and Web pages -- even live, instant messages exchanged on smartphones. http://www.physorg.com/news178221164.html Technology Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:10:03 EST news178221164 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have shown in the laboratory that metal nanoparticles damaged the DNA in cells on the other side of a cellular barrier. The research, by the University of Bristol, is published online this week in Nature Nanotechnology. http://www.physorg.com/news176657350.html Nanotechnology Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:20:02 EST news176657350 (PhysOrg.com) -- The remarkable eyes of a marine crustacean could inspire the next generation of DVD and CD players, according to a new study from the University of Bristol published today in Nature Photonics. http://www.physorg.com/news175702057.html Physics Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:08:17 EST news175702057 (PhysOrg.com) -- Mobile phone subscriptions in Africa have defied the world economic crisis by growing faster than in any other region of the world since 2003, according to a United Nations report published yesterday. http://www.physorg.com/news175519235.html Technology Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:22:37 EST news175519235 (PhysOrg.com) -- A team of international researchers is the first to uncover the chemical composition and structure of a microelectronics element that is vital to producing ever smaller - and, thus, cheaper and faster - devices. http://www.physorg.com/news173985674.html Physics Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:00:02 EST news173985674 The blood brain barrier is generally considered an obstacle to delivering therapies from the bloodstream to the brain. However, University of Iowa researchers have discovered a way to turn the blood vessels surrounding brain cells into a production and delivery system for getting therapeutic molecules directly into brain cells. http://www.physorg.com/news172762279.html Medicine & Health Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:32:13 EST news172762279 (PhysOrg.com) -- For someone with limited English, using typed medication directions instead of hand written directions can make a huge difference in understanding medical instructions. http://www.physorg.com/news172758572.html Medicine & Health Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:33:35 EST news172758572 Australia's Great Barrier Reef is in serious jeopardy as global warming and chemical runoff threaten to kill marine species and cause serious outbreaks of disease, a report warned Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news171102349.html Space & Earth Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:30:01 EST news171102349 (AP) -- Deep beneath the crystalline blue surface of the Atlantic Ocean off the southeastern U.S. lies a virtual rain forest of coral reefs so expansive the network is believed to be the world's largest. http://www.physorg.com/news169813348.html Space & Earth Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:23:11 EST news169813348 While most Americans think climate change is an important issue, they don't see it as an immediate threat, so getting people to "go green" requires policymakers, scientists and marketers to look at psychological barriers to change and what leads people to action, according to a task force of the American Psychological Association. http://www.physorg.com/news168879215.html Medicine & Health Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:56:39 EST news168879215 Australian scientists on Thursday announced a ground-breaking genome-mapping project that could help the Great Barrier Reef fight off the twin threats of climate change and toxic farm chemicals. http://www.physorg.com/news168151655.html Biology Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:10:01 EST news168151655 (PhysOrg.com) -- The tremendous diversity of life continues to puzzle scientists, long after the 200 years since Charles Darwin's birth. However, in recent years, consistent patterns of biodiversity have been identified over space, time organism type and geographical region. http://www.physorg.com/news167057268.html Biology Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:48:38 EST news167057268 A rare, deadly developmental disorder of the lungs called alveolar capillary dysplasia with misalignment of pulmonary veins (ACD/MPV) that usually kills the infants born with it within the first month of life results from deletions or mutations in the FOXF1 transcription factor gene, said a consortium of researchers led by Baylor College of Medicine in a report that appears in the American Journal of Human Genetics. http://www.physorg.com/news163341976.html Medicine & Health Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:46:48 EST news163341976 (AP) -- An ocean liner docked in an Australian city on Saturday despite objections raised by port officials over a swine flu outbreak on board that cut short a Great Barrier Reef cruise. http://www.physorg.com/news162884187.html Medicine & Health Sat, 30 May 2009 06:37:04 EST news162884187 The lesson from Australia's Great Barrier Reef is that we have to protect its biodiversity - because biodiversity in turn protects us. http://www.physorg.com/news160924011.html Space & Earth Thu, 07 May 2009 14:07:38 EST news160924011 (PhysOrg.com) -- Detecting the coherent motion of a single electron is a challenge, for the simple reason of scale: the timescale of the coherent motion of a single-electron wave function is in the picosecond regime (one trillionth of a second), which presents significant technical difficulties. However, understanding single-electron dynamics is very important for a wide range of future quantum technologies. http://www.physorg.com/news160824176.html Physics Wed, 06 May 2009 10:23:36 EST news160824176 (PhysOrg.com) -- Marine scientists say they are astonished at the spectacular recovery of certain coral reefs in Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park from a devastating coral bleaching event in 2006. http://www.physorg.com/news159558717.html Space & Earth Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:53:39 EST news159558717 Regular exercise can prevent the disruption of the blood brain barrier that normally occurs with a dose of methamphetamine comparable to that used by heavy meth users. http://www.physorg.com/news159541578.html Medicine & Health Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:06:44 EST news159541578 As electronic circuits shrink from finely etched lines in silicon wafers to nearly elusive proportions, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Columbia University are studying how electrons flow through a molecular junction -a nanometer scale circuit element that contacts gold atoms with a single molecule. Their findings reveal the electrical resistance through this junction can be turned 'on' and 'off' simply by pushing and pulling the junction -a feature that could be used as a switch in nanoscale electronic devices. http://www.physorg.com/news155309783.html Nanotechnology Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:36:54 EST news155309783 (PhysOrg.com) -- A barrier coating developed through CSIRO`s Light Metals Flagship offers aluminium smelters significant annual savings in reduced consumption of petroleum coke alone. http://www.physorg.com/news154620422.html Technology Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:07:44 EST news154620422 Like guards controlling access to a gated community, nuclear pore complexes are communication channels that regulate the passage of proteins and RNA to and from a cell's nucleus. Recent studies by researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies offer new insights about the pores' lifespan and how their longevity affects their function. http://www.physorg.com/news151849718.html Biology Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:29:37 EST news151849718 A virus that causes cold-like symptoms in humans originated in birds and may have crossed the species barrier around 200 years ago, according to an article published in the December issue of the Journal of General Virology. Scientists hope their findings will help us understand how potentially deadly viruses emerge in humans. http://www.physorg.com/news146399764.html Biology Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:36:04 EST news146399764