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. New research indicates that the ocean could rise in the next 100 years to a meter higher than the current sea level - which is three times higher than predictions from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC. The groundbreaking new results from an international collaboration between researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen, England and Finland are published in the scientific journal Climate Dynamics. http://www.physorg.com/news150645386.html Space & Earth Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:56:26 EST news150645386 (PhysOrg.com) -- Dartmouth engineering professor and entrepreneur Victor Petrenko -along with his colleagues at Dartmouth and at Ice Engineering LLC in Lebanon, N.H. -have invented a way to cheaply and effectively keep ice off power lines. http://www.physorg.com/news150566568.html Technology Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:02:48 EST news150566568 (PhysOrg.com) -- It`s December, and undergraduate Jenny Middleton bundles up to face the cold. While all across campus, students, and faculty don their winter gear, Middleton is not preparing for the New England winter; she is preparing for an expedition through the Earth`s coldest desert: the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica. http://www.physorg.com/news149872492.html Space & Earth Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:14:52 EST news149872492 A NASA robot tested last winter in an icy Wisconsin lake will complete a monthlong underwater mission in Antarctica on Thursday, having successfully explored dark, deep waters frozen off from the outside world tens of thousands of years ago. http://www.physorg.com/news149503602.html Electronics Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:46:42 EST news149503602 (PhysOrg.com) -- The idea of a white Christmas may seem magical for many of us, but spare a thought for a team of scientists forgoing the festive season to take part in a novel campaign being carried out in one of the most inhospitable regions on Earth to support ESA's CryoSat mission. http://www.physorg.com/news149168651.html Space & Earth Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:44:11 EST news149168651 Chemists in Canada have developed a new approach for producing more effective medical antifreeze fluids for preserving kidneys, hearts, and other organs donated for transplantation. These next-generation antifreezes can decrease damage to organs caused by ice crystals, and thus prolong the time a donated organ will remain viable prior to transplantation. This could increase the number of available organs for potential recipients. Their study is scheduled for the current issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society. http://www.physorg.com/news149144713.html Chemistry Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:05:13 EST news149144713 Scientists have discovered where they believe would be the best place to find ice on the moon. http://www.physorg.com/news148805928.html Space & Earth Thu, 18 Dec 2008 06:58:48 EST news148805928 Researchers watching the loss of ice flowing out from the giant island of Greenland say that the amount of ice lost this summer is nearly three times what was lost one year ago. http://www.physorg.com/news148563893.html Space & Earth Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:44:53 EST news148563893 As ice melts away from Antarctica, parts of the continental bedrock are rising in response -- and other parts are sinking, scientists have discovered. http://www.physorg.com/news148563736.html Space & Earth Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:42:16 EST news148563736 Could longer menus lead people to choose salads over French fries? According to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, people who choose from a large variety of menu items are more likely to make healthy choices than people who choose from shorter lists. http://www.physorg.com/news148563118.html Medicine & Health Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:31:58 EST news148563118 In light of recent developments that threaten to lead to the break-up of the Wilkins Ice Shelf, ESA is making daily satellite images of the ice shelf available to the public via the 'Webcam' from Space web page in order to monitor the developments as they occur. http://www.physorg.com/news148314897.html Space & Earth Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:34:57 EST news148314897 (PhysOrg.com) -- New rifts have developed on the Wilkins Ice Shelf that could lead to the opening of the ice bridge that has been preventing the ice shelf from disintegrating and breaking away from the Antarctic Peninsula. http://www.physorg.com/news147094723.html Space & Earth Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:38:43 EST news147094723 It won't help the Titanic, but a newly derived, simple law may help scientists improve their climate models and glaciologists predict where icebergs will calve off from their parent ice sheets, according to a team of Penn State researchers. http://www.physorg.com/news147015253.html Space & Earth Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:34:13 EST news147015253 Vast Martian glaciers of water ice under protective blankets of rocky debris persist today at much lower latitudes than any ice previously identified on Mars, says new research using ground-penetrating radar on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. http://www.physorg.com/news146409495.html Space & Earth Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:18:15 EST news146409495 When Ohio State glaciologists failed to find the expected radioactive signals in the latest core they drilled from a Himalayan ice field, they knew it meant trouble for their research. http://www.physorg.com/news146230530.html Space & Earth Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:35:30 EST news146230530 Scientists have long known that life can exist in some very extreme environments. But Earth continues to surprise us. At a European Science Foundation and COST (European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research) 'Frontiers of Science' meeting in Sicily in October, scientists described apparently productive ecosystems in two places where life was not known before, under the Antarctic ice sheet, and above concentrated salt lakes beneath the Mediterranean. http://www.physorg.com/news146140920.html Biology Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:42:00 EST news146140920 (PhysOrg.com) -- Using nearly 50 years of data, University of Maine researchers have determined that subglacial floods in East Antarctica caused a rapid and short-lived acceleration of a major outlet glacier. http://www.physorg.com/news146117002.html Space & Earth Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:03:22 EST news146117002 (PhysOrg.com) -- Observations from satellites now allow scientists to monitor changes to water levels in the sea, in rivers and lakes, in ice sheets and even under the ground. As the climate changes, this information will be crucial for monitoring its effects and predicting future impacts in different regions. http://www.physorg.com/news145790075.html Space & Earth Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:14:35 EST news145790075 A study reported in today's issue of Nature disputes a longstanding picture of how ice sheets influence ocean circulation during glacial periods. http://www.physorg.com/news145202102.html Space & Earth Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:55:02 EST news145202102 Earth scientists are attempting to predict the future impacts of climate change by reconstructing the past behavior of Arctic climate and ocean circulation. In a November special issue of the journal Ecology, a group of scientists report that if current patterns of change in the Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans continue, alterations of ocean circulation could occur on a global scale, with potentially dramatic implications for the world's climate and biosphere. http://www.physorg.com/news145197809.html Space & Earth Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:43:29 EST news145197809 (PhysOrg.com) -- A NASA-led research team has used satellite data to make the most precise measurements to date of changes in the mass of mountain glaciers in the Gulf of Alaska, a region expected to be a significant contributor to global sea level rise over the next 50-100 years. http://www.physorg.com/news145189633.html Space & Earth Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:27:13 EST news145189633 The universe is full of water, mostly in the form of very cold ice films deposited on interstellar dust particles, but until recently little was known about the detailed small scale structure. Now the latest quick freezing techniques coupled with sophisticated scanning electron microscopy techniques, are allowing physicists to create ice films in cold conditions similar to outer space and observe the detailed molecular organisation, yielding clues to fundamental questions including possibly the origin of life. Researchers have been surprised by some of the results, not least by the sheer beauty of some of the images created, according to Julyan Cartwright, a specialist in ice structures at the Andalusian Institute for Earth Sciences (IACT) of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) and the University of Granada in Spain. http://www.physorg.com/news145097410.html Physics Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:50:10 EST news145097410 (PhysOrg.com) -- When treating cardiac arrest victims, doctors can't call a time-out. Without the ability to obtain fresh oxygen from blood pumped through the body, brain cells start to die in just minutes. Within 10 to 20 minutes after the heart stops beating, the clock has run out. Even if doctors can get the heart ticking again, the brain has died. http://www.physorg.com/news144949439.html Medicine & Health Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:43:59 EST news144949439 The Greenland ice cap has been a focal point of recent climate change research because it is much more exposed to immediate global warming than the larger Antarctic ice sheet. Yet while the southern Greenland ice cap has been melting, it is still not clear how much this is contributing to rising sea levels, and much further research is needed. A framework for such research was defined at a recent workshop organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF). http://www.physorg.com/news144928325.html Space & Earth Mon, 03 Nov 2008 09:52:05 EST news144928325 (PhysOrg.com) -- The thickness of sea ice in large parts of the Arctic declined by as much as 19% last winter compared to the previous five winters, according to data from ESA's Envisat satellite. http://www.physorg.com/news144417890.html Space & Earth Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:04:50 EST news144417890 Scientists from the U.S., U.K. and Australia have teamed up to explore two of the last uncharted regions of Earth, the Aurora and Wilkes Subglacial Basins, immense ice-buried lowlands in Antarctica with a combined area the size of Mexico. The research could show how Earth's climate changed in the past and how future climate change will affect global sea level. http://www.physorg.com/news144397393.html Space & Earth Tue, 28 Oct 2008 07:23:13 EST news144397393 (PhysOrg.com) -- Does ice-cream actually taste better when it is licked from a cone than when eaten from a spoon? http://www.physorg.com/news144066587.html Other Sciences Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:29:47 EST news144066587 Recent mapping of a number of raised beach ridges on the north coast of Greenland suggests that the ice cover in the Arctic Ocean was greatly reduced some 6000-7000 years ago. The Arctic Ocean may have been periodically ice free. http://www.physorg.com/news143738391.html Space & Earth Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:19:51 EST news143738391 (PhysOrg.com) -- An odd, solitary hill rising part-way down an eroding slope in Mars' north polar layered terrain may be the remnant of a buried impact crater, suggests a University of Arizona planetary scientist who studied the feature in a new, detailed image from the HiRISE camera onboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. http://www.physorg.com/news143393467.html Space & Earth Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:31:07 EST news143393467 A new NASA study shows that the rising frequency and intensity of arctic storms over the last half century, attributed to progressively warmer waters, directly provoked acceleration of the rate of arctic sea ice drift, long considered by scientists as a bellwether of climate change. http://www.physorg.com/news142527766.html Space & Earth Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:02:46 EST news142527766