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. (AP) -- The first battered bodies were found on a small Australian beach, the white sand around them stained crimson with their blood. A few days later, the killer struck again - this time on the nearby cliffs overlooking Sydney Harbor. The cluster of victims were covered in bite marks, their tiny tummies slashed open. http://www.physorg.com/news166893123.html Biology Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:30:02 EST news166893123 It's not just good manners to wait your turn -- it's actually down to evolution, according to new research by University of Leicester psychologists. http://www.physorg.com/news166337233.html Biology Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:47:46 EST news166337233 Same-sex behavior is a nearly universal phenomenon in the animal kingdom, common across species, from worms to frogs to birds, concludes a new review of existing research. http://www.physorg.com/news164376975.html Biology Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:46:24 EST news164376975 (AP) -- Scientists looking for lost penguins stumbled upon an effective method: Follow their poop from space. http://www.physorg.com/news163141205.html Biology Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:00:35 EST news163141205 Famous for its cuteness and comic gait on land, the penguin also has an enigmatic life at sea, sometimes spending months foraging in the ocean before returning to its breeding grounds. http://www.physorg.com/news161438465.html Biology Wed, 13 May 2009 13:02:06 EST news161438465 As the cold, dry climate of the western Antarctic Peninsula becomes warmer and more humid, phytoplankton - the bottom of the Antarctic food chain - is decreasing off the northern part the peninsula and increasing further south, Rutgers marine scientists have discovered. In research to be published tomorrow in the journal Science, Martin Montes-Hugo and Oscar Schofield report that levels of phytoplankton off the western Antarctic Peninsula have decreased 12 percent over the past 30 years. http://www.physorg.com/news156087450.html Biology Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:38:09 EST news156087450 Carnegie Mellon University engineering faculty, Priya Narasimhan and Rajeev Gandhi, and their students have created a new, unique large-scale mobile wireless video service designed to enhance sports fans' experience at games. http://www.physorg.com/news155407286.html Technology Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:44:30 EST news155407286 A quarter-century of data reveals how changing weather patterns and land use, combined with overfishing and pollution, are taking a heavy toll on penguin numbers. http://www.physorg.com/news153684137.html Biology Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:03:29 EST news153684137 Popularized by the 2005 movie "March of the Penguins," emperor penguins could be headed toward extinction in at least part of their range before the end of the century, according to a paper by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) researchers published January 26, 2009, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. http://www.physorg.com/news152272479.html Biology Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:55:07 EST news152272479 The Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society announced today that its efforts to protect a wildlife-rich coastal region in South America have paid off in the form of a new coastal marine park recently signed into law by the Government of Argentina. http://www.physorg.com/news149923404.html Biology Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:23:24 EST news149923404 Like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, penguins are sounding the alarm for potentially catastrophic changes in the world's oceans, and the culprit isn't only climate change, says a University of Washington conservation biologist. http://www.physorg.com/news134110238.html Space & Earth Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:50:38 EST news134110238