http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Mirinae (Santi) caused 12 hours of flooding rains in the Philippines when it crossed the northern Luzon region over the weekend. On October 31 at 5 a.m. Local (Asia/Manila) Time (October 30 at 2100 UTC) Typhoon Mirinae weakened dramatically after it moved inland over central Luzon, the Philippines. By October 31 at 5 p.m. Local time, Mirinae had already reemerged into the South China Sea as a tropical storm and was headed for Vietnam, but it left behind floods, destruction and death. Mirinae made landfall in Vietnam early this morning, Eastern Time. http://www.physorg.com/news176396119.html Space & Earth Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:50:01 EST news176396119 Complex interactions between the ocean and overlying atmosphere cause hurricanes to form, and also have a tremendous amount of influence on the path, intensity and duration of a hurricane or tropical weather event. As researchers develop new ways to better understand and predict the nature of individual storms, a largely unstudied phenomenon has caught the attention of scientists at LSU's Earth Scan Laboratory, or ESL. Cool water upwellings occurring within ocean cyclones following alongside and behind hurricanes are sometimes strong enough to reduce the strength of hurricanes as they cross paths. http://www.physorg.com/news173369507.html Space & Earth Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:12:39 EST news173369507 (PhysOrg.com) -- A showy butterfly with bright orange-red wings and a 4-inch wingspan is back in the Sacramento metropolitan area after a four-decade absence and in the Davis area after 30 years. http://www.physorg.com/news173029761.html Biology Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:00:01 EST news173029761 Scientists in Pennsylvania report that boosting production of crops used to make biofuels could make a difficult task to shrink a vast, oxygen-depleted "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico more difficult. The zone, which reached the size of Massachusetts in 2008, forms in summer and threatens marine life and jobs in the region. Their study is scheduled for the Oct. 1 issue of ACS' semi-monthly journal Environmental Science & Technology. http://www.physorg.com/news172319226.html Space & Earth Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:50:13 EST news172319226 (PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Washington Seaglider operated for 9 months and 5 days in the Pacific Ocean, an endurance record more than double what any other autonomous underwater vehicle has accomplished on a single mission. http://www.physorg.com/news171813908.html Space & Earth Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:05:46 EST news171813908 Tornadoes that occur from hurricanes moving inland from the Gulf Coast are increasing in frequency, according to researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology. This increase seems to reflect the increase in size and frequency among large hurricanes that make landfall from the Gulf of Mexico. The findings can be found in Geophysical Research Letters online and in print in a future issue. http://www.physorg.com/news171623905.html Space & Earth Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:19:17 EST news171623905 Scientists from Stanford University have teamed up with Israeli and Jordanian researchers to protect the Gulf of Aqaba, a strategic waterway whose fragile marine ecosystem is vital to both Israel and Jordan. Participants in the NATO-funded project say they are bridging the Arab-Israeli political divide for the sake of science, peace and environmental conservation. http://www.physorg.com/news170438110.html Space & Earth Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:20:01 EST news170438110 NASA scientists Maury Estes and Mohammad Al-Hamdan have been seafaring in the Gulf of Mexico, and one of them grew a bit green around the gills. It's not surprising that a space agency scientist might have trouble getting his sea legs, but what was he doing out there in the surf to begin with? http://www.physorg.com/news170353865.html Space & Earth Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:00:01 EST news170353865 (PhysOrg.com) -- On July 31, 2009, the submersible robot glider RU27, also known as the Scarlet Knight, passed east of the spot in the Atlantic Ocean where its predecessor, RU17, was lost on Oct. 28, 2008. http://www.physorg.com/news168532577.html Space & Earth Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:37:04 EST news168532577 NOAA-supported scientists, led by Nancy Rabalais, Ph.D., from the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON), found the size of this year's Gulf of Mexico dead zone to be smaller than forecasted, measuring 3,000 square miles. However the dead zone, which is usually limited to water just above the sea floor, was severe where it did occur, extending closer to the water surface then in most years. http://www.physorg.com/news167720984.html Space & Earth Sat, 25 Jul 2009 06:10:13 EST news167720984 As the West warms, a drier Colorado River system could see as much as a one-in-two chance of fully depleting all of its reservoir storage by mid-century assuming current management practices continue on course, according to a new University of Colorado at Boulder study. http://www.physorg.com/news167317734.html Space & Earth Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:09:23 EST news167317734 University of Michigan aquatic ecologist Donald Scavia and his colleagues say this year's Gulf of Mexico "dead zone" could be one of the largest on record, continuing a decades-long trend that threatens the health of a half-billion-dollar fishery. http://www.physorg.com/news164546116.html Space & Earth Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:18:29 EST news164546116 While Congress considers opening the eastern Gulf of Mexico to oil-and-gas drilling, experts on ocean currents warn of a potential environmental nightmare that could reach the coast of South Florida. http://www.physorg.com/news164437988.html Space & Earth Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:13:31 EST news164437988 (AP) -- Blue whales are returning to Alaska in search of food and could be re-establishing an old migration route several decades after they were nearly wiped out by commercial whalers, scientists say. http://www.physorg.com/news161845979.html Biology Mon, 18 May 2009 06:13:35 EST news161845979 Scientists have documented the first known migration of blue whales from the coast of California to areas off British Columbia and the Gulf of Alaska since the end of commercial whaling in 1965. http://www.physorg.com/news161269538.html Biology Mon, 11 May 2009 14:06:09 EST news161269538 (PhysOrg.com) -- Even for Northern shrimp (Pandalus borealis), which support commercial fisheries worldwide, timing is everything in life. The tiny creatures, eaten in shrimp rolls and shrimp salad, occupy a pivotal role in the oceanic food chain and may serve as early indicators of changing climate due to their sensitivity to temperature. Northern shrimp also seem to have an uncanny sense of reproductive timing, releasing their larvae to match the arrival of food and thus maximizing larval survival. http://www.physorg.com/news160926980.html Biology Thu, 07 May 2009 14:57:03 EST news160926980 A new study by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers is the first to pinpoint damage inside the brains of veterans suffering from Gulf War syndrome - a finding that links the illness to chemical exposures and may lead to diagnostic tests and treatments. http://www.physorg.com/news157018337.html Medicine & Health Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:12:43 EST news157018337 In the past year, maritime shipping has suffered a resurgence of piracy, at a level that the world has not seen since the early 18th century. http://www.physorg.com/news153673901.html Technology Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:14:11 EST news153673901 A large number of North Atlantic right whales have been seen in the Gulf of Maine in recent days, leading right whale researchers at NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) to believe they have identified a wintering ground and potentially a breeding ground for this endangered species. http://www.physorg.com/news150115302.html Biology Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:41:42 EST news150115302 Researchers at Southern Methodist University in Dallas are pioneering the use of spatial statistical modeling to analyze brain scan data from Persian Gulf War veterans, aiming to pinpoint specific areas of the their brains affected by Gulf War Syndrome. http://www.physorg.com/news146320151.html Medicine & Health Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:29:10 EST news146320151 At least one in four of the 697,000 U.S. veterans of the 1991 Gulf War suffer from Gulf War illness, a condition caused by exposure to toxic chemicals, including pesticides and a drug administered to protect troops against nerve gas, and no effective treatments have yet been found, a federal panel of scientific experts and veterans concludes in a landmark report released Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news146144650.html Medicine & Health Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:44:10 EST news146144650 The risk of depression is greater among Iraqi soldiers who took part in the Gulf War than among civilians. Surprisingly, on the other hand, neither of these groups showed any signs of post-traumatic stress ten years after that war-­with the exception of those Iraqis who have left Iraq. This is demonstrated in a study published in the new issue of the scientific journal New Iraqi Journal of Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news144928209.html Medicine & Health Mon, 03 Nov 2008 09:50:09 EST news144928209 The most comprehensive geological review ever undertaken of the upper U.S. Gulf Coast suggests that a combination of rising seas and dammed rivers could flood large swaths of wetlands this century in one or more bays from Alabama to Texas. http://www.physorg.com/news142174023.html Space & Earth Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:47:03 EST news142174023 Shortly after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit the U.S., Rice University civil and mechanical engineering professor Satish Nagarajaiah studied damage done to offshore drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. If tropical storm Gustav strengthens into a Category 3 hurricane, as forecasters are predicting, Nagarajaiah's findings could provide valuable knowledge about what to expect if Gustav hits the Gulf of Mexico oil platform regions. http://www.physorg.com/news139233070.html Space & Earth Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:51:10 EST news139233070 More than 80 percent of a sample of Air Force women deployed in Iraq and other areas around the world report suffering from persistent fatigue, fever, hair loss and difficulty concentrating, according to a University of Michigan study. http://www.physorg.com/news137950900.html Medicine & Health Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:41:40 EST news137950900 Researchers from Duke University, the University of Cincinnati and the Durham Veterans Administration Medical Center are hoping to find a geographical pattern to help explain why 1991 Gulf War veterans contracted the fatal neurological disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) at twice the normal rate during the decade after the conflict. http://www.physorg.com/news135869639.html Medicine & Health Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:33:59 EST news135869639