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. Russia's new nuclear-capable missile suffered another failed test launch, the defence ministry said Thursday, solving the mystery of a spectacular plume of white light that appeared over Norway. http://www.physorg.com/news179671318.html Space & Earth Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:43:24 EST news179671318 Cisco and British telecom giant BT Group on Wednesday announced a partnership aimed at a growing hunger by businesses worldwide for Internet-based communications services. http://www.physorg.com/news179607463.html Technology Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:30:02 EST news179607463 (PhysOrg.com) -- Hawaii may be paradise for vacationers, but for geologists it has long been a puzzle. Plate tectonic theory readily explains the existence of volcanoes at boundaries where plates split apart or collide, but mid-plate volcanoes such as those that built the Hawaiian island chain have been harder to fit into the theory. A classic explanation, proposed nearly 40 years ago, has been that magma is supplied to the volcanoes from upwellings of hot rock, called mantle "plumes," that originate deep in the Earth's mantle. Evidence for these deep structures has been sketchy, however. http://www.physorg.com/news179074389.html Space & Earth Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:53:40 EST news179074389 "There is a likely chance of tsunami waves reaching the shores of Israel," says Dr. Beverly Goodman of the Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences at the University of Haifa following encompassing geoarchaeological research at the port of Caesarea. "Tsunami events in the Mediterranean do occur less frequently than in the Pacific Ocean, but our findings reveal a moderate rate of recurrence," she says. http://www.physorg.com/news175775946.html Space & Earth Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:41:06 EST news175775946 Sales of personal computers (PCs) in the Asia-Pacific region rose 17 percent from a year ago to 23.4 million units in the third quarter, an industry monitor said Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news175239170.html Technology Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:33:26 EST news175239170 Eutrophication of the seas may have an impact on genetic variation in algae, research at the University of Gothenburg shows. http://www.physorg.com/news175178474.html Biology Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:10:03 EST news175178474 (AP) -- Indian Kashmir's glaciers are melting fast because of rising temperatures, threatening the water supply of millions of people in the Himalayan region, a new study by Indian scientists says. http://www.physorg.com/news174651252.html Space & Earth Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:40:01 EST news174651252 (PhysOrg.com) -- Two color-coded perspective views of the Independent State of Samoa (left) and American Samoa (right), generated with digital elevation data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, illustrate the varying topography of the islands. http://www.physorg.com/news173705412.html Space & Earth Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:42:30 EST news173705412 America's Arctic has long been a place of myth and dream, where the Inupiat Eskimos have thrived, explorers endured and artists found inspiration. While competing visions of the Arctic have clashed in the past, we are now on a collision course between industrial development and the unspoiled environment that has supported Alaska Natives' traditional culture. http://www.physorg.com/news172482937.html Space & Earth Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:20:01 EST news172482937 (AP) -- Abandoned mercury mines throughout central California's rugged coastal mountains are polluting the state's major waterways, rendering fish unsafe to eat and risking the health of at least 100,000 impoverished people. http://www.physorg.com/news172473568.html Space & Earth Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:32:41 EST news172473568 Wind speeds and directions were measured for the first time in the Mars polar region using the Phoenix lander`s Telltale instrument. Astronomers recorded Easterly winds of approximately 15-20 kilometres per hour during the martian mid-summer. When autumn approached, the winds increased and switched round to come predominantly from the West. While these winds appeared to be dominated by turbulence, the highest wind speeds recorded of up to nearly 60 kilometres per hour coincided with the passing of weather systems, when also the number of dust devils increased by an order of magnitude. The results are being today at the European Planetary Science Congress in Potsdam by Dr Haraldur Gunnlaugsson. http://www.physorg.com/news172305133.html Space & Earth Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:32:51 EST news172305133 One in six Mediterranean mammals is threatened with extinction at the regional level, mainly due to the destruction of their habitat from urbanization, agriculture and climate change, nature body IUCN said Tuesday in a new study. http://www.physorg.com/news172231545.html Biology Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:20:02 EST news172231545 Against all odds, organized labor managed to make new inroads during the economic upheaval of the past year, new findings from UCLA's Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) suggest. http://www.physorg.com/news171519138.html Other Sciences Mon, 07 Sep 2009 05:40:01 EST news171519138 Montana State University scientists are involved in a new space mission to figure out how energy is transferred through the sun's atmosphere. http://www.physorg.com/news170957674.html Space & Earth Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:00:01 EST news170957674 Personal computer sales in Asia ended two consecutive quarters of contraction to post robust growth in the second quarter of 2009, a report released Monday said. http://www.physorg.com/news167279457.html Technology Mon, 20 Jul 2009 05:30:01 EST news167279457 (PhysOrg.com) -- Ah, Paris. Land of the Eiffel Tower, delicious French bread and... tropical rainforests? Sacrebleu! It seems unlikely, but scientists have discovered evidence that France may have been a hot, wet tropical rainforest 55 million years ago. http://www.physorg.com/news166977549.html Chemistry Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:50:02 EST news166977549 (PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers has discovered an unexpected concentration of a certain isotopic molecule in parts of the stratosphere that could have implications for understanding the carbon cycle and its response to climate change. http://www.physorg.com/news166795373.html Space & Earth Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:03:31 EST news166795373 (AP) -- Nearly one-third of the natural gas yet to be discovered in the world is north of the Arctic Circle and most of it is in Russian territory, according to a new analysis led by researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey. http://www.physorg.com/news162812345.html Space & Earth Fri, 29 May 2009 10:47:22 EST news162812345 (PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton has broken new ground in outer space by pinpointing the impact epicentre of an Earthbound space storm as it crashes into the atmosphere and giving an advance warning that it's on the way. http://www.physorg.com/news162652445.html Space & Earth Wed, 27 May 2009 14:15:00 EST news162652445 (PhysOrg.com) -- There are very few places in the world where dynamic activity taking place beneath Earth's surface goes undetected. http://www.physorg.com/news162573232.html Space & Earth Tue, 26 May 2009 16:15:02 EST news162573232 (AP) -- The Obama administration, which promised a sharp break from the Bush White House on global warming, declared Friday it would stick with a Bush-era policy against expanding protection for climate-threatened polar bears and ruled out a broad new attack on greenhouse gases. http://www.physorg.com/news161027942.html Space & Earth Fri, 08 May 2009 18:59:23 EST news161027942 An important genetic study conducted through Mayo Clinic has identified vital new information concerning alcoholism in subjects with European ancestry, according to a recent issue of Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research. http://www.physorg.com/news159723718.html Medicine & Health Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:42:45 EST news159723718 Sales of personal computers in the Asia Pacific region excluding Japan fell five percent in the first quarter from the previous year as a global economic slump hurt demand, a report said Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news159425643.html Technology Mon, 20 Apr 2009 05:54:40 EST news159425643 (AP) -- The Obama administration is pushing to protect Antarctica's fragile environment by imposing mandatory limits on the size of cruise ships sailing there and the number of passengers they bring ashore. http://www.physorg.com/news158150057.html Space & Earth Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:34:47 EST news158150057 Broadband-service providers will see their revenue from mobile services jump to 137 billion dollars worldwide by 2014, up 450 percent from 2008, a report said Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news157280865.html Technology Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:08:16 EST news157280865 The helpless behavior that is commonly linked to depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is preceded by stress-related losses of synapses -microscopic connections between brain cells -in the brain's hippocampal region, researchers at Yale School of Medicine report in the March 1 issue of Biological Psychiatry. http://www.physorg.com/news155383870.html Medicine & Health Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:11:36 EST news155383870 The wide-open spaces of the Flint Hills may no longer provide a secure home on the range for several familiar grassland birds, according to research by a Kansas State University ecologist and her colleagues. http://www.physorg.com/news155305199.html Biology Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:20:34 EST news155305199 (PhysOrg.com) -- Already Charles Darwin investigated facial expressions of monkeys in order to find out how closely related humans and monkeys really are. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics have now shown that rhesus monkeys and humans employ the same strategies to process faces of conspecifics: both species look first at the eyes of conspecifics, whereas for non-conspecific faces they let their gaze wander over the whole face. http://www.physorg.com/news155234440.html Biology Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:41:21 EST news155234440 Worldwide semiconductor sales declined 28.6 percent in January from a year ago as the global recession continued to take a big bite out of the computer chip industry, an industry tracker said Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news155223014.html Technology Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:31:32 EST news155223014 In the first systematic analysis of threats to the biodiversity of the world's mediterranean-climate regions, scientists at The Nature Conservancy and UC Davis report that these conservation hotspots are facing significant and increasing pressure. The study, which appears in this week's edition of the journal Diversity and Distributions, is part of a global conservation assessment of the rare mediterranean biome. http://www.physorg.com/news154097352.html Space & Earth Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:49:46 EST news154097352