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 tsunami that killed more than 200 people in the Samoan islands and Tonga earlier this year towered up to 46 feet (14 meters) high - more then twice as tall as most of the buildings it slammed into, scientists said Friday. http://www.physorg.com/news179118002.html Space & Earth Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:10:02 EST news179118002 (PhysOrg.com) -- Corals depends on the products of photosynthetic algae for most of their food, but they also eat tiny plankton. Now, for the first time, there is evidence of a coral eating jellyfish. http://www.physorg.com/news177666871.html Biology Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:50:02 EST news177666871 Seismic surveys used for oil and gas prospecting on the sea floor are a disturbance for blue whales, the world's biggest animal and one of its rarest species, biologists reported on Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news172909374.html Biology Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:50:04 EST news172909374 (AP) -- Joint U.S.-Canada exploration of the Arctic sea floor discovered an unusual underwater mountain and evidence that could boost the two countries' claims that their boundaries extend farther north. For the past two months ships from the countries have ventured north in icy areas of the Arctic where almost no surface ships have been, in an effort to find out how far the continental shelf extends. http://www.physorg.com/news171824277.html Space & Earth Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:10:02 EST news171824277 (AP) -- Thousands of walruses are congregating on Alaska's northwest coast, a sign that their Arctic sea ice environment has been altered by climate change. http://www.physorg.com/news171743169.html Biology Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:26:43 EST news171743169 Japan plans to deploy unmanned probes to scour the sea-floor around the resource-poor island nation for mineral deposits, a government-backed scientific organisation said Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news168778082.html Space & Earth Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:20:02 EST news168778082 The potential for a huge Pacific Ocean tsunami on the West Coast of America may be greater than previously thought, according to a new study of geological evidence along the Gulf of Alaska coast. http://www.physorg.com/news167303056.html Space & Earth Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:04:45 EST news167303056 (PhysOrg.com) -- Drifting across the world's oceans are a group of unicellular marine microorganisms that are not only a crucial source of food for other marine life -- but their fossils, which are found in abundance, provide scientists with an extraordinary record of climatic change and other major events in the history of the earth. http://www.physorg.com/news166790588.html Biology Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:43:50 EST news166790588 Computer simulations, paleomagnetism and plate motion histories described in today's issue of Science reveal how hotspots, centers of erupting magma that sit atop columns of hot mantle that were once thought to remain firmly fixed in place, in fact move beneath Earth's crust. http://www.physorg.com/news157902147.html Space & Earth Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:50:37 EST news157902147 (PhysOrg.com) -- Mars today is a world of cold and lonely deserts, apparently without life of any kind, at least on the surface. Worse still, it looks like Mars has been cold and dry for billions of years, with an atmosphere so thin, any liquid water on the surface quickly boils away while the sun's ultraviolet radiation scorches the ground. http://www.physorg.com/news151253201.html Space & Earth Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:46:41 EST news151253201 An international team of earth scientists report movement of warmed sea water through the flat, Pacific Ocean floor off Costa Rica. The movement is greater than that off midocean volcanic ridges. The finding suggests possible marine life in a part of the ocean once considered barren. http://www.physorg.com/news141314645.html Space & Earth Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:04:05 EST news141314645 Tiny microbes beneath the sea floor, distinct from life on the Earth's surface, may account for one-tenth of the Earth's living biomass, according to an interdisciplinary team of researchers, but many of these minute creatures are living on a geologic timescale. http://www.physorg.com/news135878602.html Biology Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:03:22 EST news135878602 University of Alberta scientists contend they have the answer to mass extinction of animals and plants 93 million years ago. The answer, research has uncovered, has been found at the bottom of the sea floor where lava fountains erupted, altering the chemistry of the sea and possibly of the atmosphere. http://www.physorg.com/news135432196.html Space & Earth Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:03:16 EST news135432196