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) -- Ships are on alert and maritime authorities are monitoring the movements of hundreds of menacing icebergs drifting toward New Zealand in the southern Pacific Ocean, officials said. http://www.physorg.com/news178374623.html Space & Earth Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:33:50 EST news178374623 NASA's Terra satellite captured a stunning image of Anja, the first tropical cyclone of the southern Hemisphere cyclone season. When Anja formed on Saturday, November 14, in the Southern Indian Ocean, about 330 miles south-southwest of Diego Garcia it was designated Tropical Cyclone 01S ("S" for south). By Sunday, November 15, 01S had strengthened into a tropical storm and was named Anja. http://www.physorg.com/news177606562.html Space & Earth Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:10:02 EST news177606562 After 15 years of research in the waters of the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans, scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society, the American Museum of Natural History, and an international coalition of organizations have unveiled the largest genetic study of humpback whale populations ever conducted in the Southern Hemisphere. http://www.physorg.com/news174718568.html Biology Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:10:01 EST news174718568 A series of record-setting unmanned research flights are providing University of Colorado at Boulder researchers with some of the first 3-D observations of gaping holes in the Antarctic sea ice known as polynyas and the blasting winds that help form them. http://www.physorg.com/news171818910.html Space & Earth Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:50:01 EST news171818910 (AP) -- The alarm sounded with two sneezy children in California in April. Just five months later, the never-before-seen swine flu has become the world's dominant strain of influenza, and it's putting a shockingly younger face on flu. http://www.physorg.com/news170863242.html Medicine & Health Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:20:01 EST news170863242 In a deadly game of heads or tails venomous sea snakes in the Pacific and Indian Oceans deceive their predators into believing they have two heads, claims research published today in Marine Ecology. http://www.physorg.com/news168764583.html Biology Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:03:59 EST news168764583 Imagine Earth without an atmosphere - without clouds, wind or air. Earth's atmosphere protects, transports, and reacts to life on Earth. http://www.physorg.com/news168707591.html Space & Earth Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:40:02 EST news168707591 In a Nature letter published July 23, 2009, Norwegian researchers present evidence that the auroras in the Northern and the Southern hemispheres can be totally asymmetric. These findings contradict the commonly made assumption of aurora being mirror images of each other. http://www.physorg.com/news167550308.html Space & Earth Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:46:11 EST news167550308 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new, highly detailed study of the H1N1 flu virus shows that the pathogen is more virulent than previously thought. http://www.physorg.com/news166722748.html Medicine & Health Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:52:59 EST news166722748 (PhysOrg.com) -- Cloud chasers studying Saturn's moon Titan say its clouds form and move much like those on Earth, but in a much slower, more lingering fashion. http://www.physorg.com/news163266644.html Space & Earth Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:51:38 EST news163266644 (AP) -- Authorities on Sunday began the grim task of removing the carcasses of 55 whales that beached themselves and had to be shot despite the frantic rescue efforts of hundreds of volunteers. http://www.physorg.com/news162995886.html Biology Sun, 31 May 2009 13:39:05 EST news162995886 (AP) -- Swine flu and the possibility of a vaccine topped the agenda Monday as the World Health Organization opened its annual meeting amid concern that the virus continues to spread - and kill - around the globe. http://www.physorg.com/news161845919.html Medicine & Health Mon, 18 May 2009 06:12:36 EST news161845919 (AP) -- The most pivotal moments in the swine flu saga are yet to come. Will it sweep through impoverished Southern Hemisphere countries in the next few months? Will it roar back in the rest of the world in the fall? And who will be vaccinated if it does? http://www.physorg.com/news161142339.html Medicine & Health Sun, 10 May 2009 02:46:25 EST news161142339 There are fewer species of ants in the northern hemisphere than in the southern hemisphere. This is the conclusion drawn by an international team of scientists that have studied 1,003 local ant assemblages on five different continents. According to the study, ant communities in the northern hemisphere may have suffered more extinctions as a result of the climate changes that occurred between 53 and 54 million years ago. http://www.physorg.com/news160817116.html Biology Wed, 06 May 2009 08:27:05 EST news160817116 (AP) -- Southern hemisphere countries that have largely escaped swine flu infections could soon become more vulnerable, experts warn, as the approaching winter brings with it an elevated risk of the virus spreading and mutating. http://www.physorg.com/news160676818.html Medicine & Health Mon, 04 May 2009 17:28:08 EST news160676818 (AP) -- On the 27th day of their trek, a dozen "black specks" of humanity crawling across Antarctica's vast white silence, Lou Albershardt heard a sound she'd never heard in two decades on the ice. http://www.physorg.com/news156870658.html Space & Earth Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:11:35 EST news156870658 (PhysOrg.com) -- Global climate rapidly shifted from a relatively ice-free world to one with massive ice sheets on Antarctica about 34 million years ago. What happened? What changed? A team of scientists led by Yale geologists offers a new perspective on the nature of changing climatic conditions across this greenhouse-to-icehouse transition -one that refutes earlier theories and has important implications for predicting future climate changes. http://www.physorg.com/news154883447.html Space & Earth Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:11:21 EST news154883447 (PhysOrg.com) -- So much attention has been paid to the similarities and differences between Earth and Mars that we often look to the ancient red planet for signposts in our own planet's future. A U of T physicist, whose work is published this week in the prestigious international journal Science, may have explained some key differences in the magnetic fields of the two planets. http://www.physorg.com/news141573374.html Physics Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:56:14 EST news141573374 University of Cincinnati Professor of Geology Tom Lowell is featured in the July 18 issue of Science, discussing the latest research into the question of whether the significant climate change event about 12,900 years ago known as Younger Dryas impacted the climate all around the globe. http://www.physorg.com/news135522908.html Space & Earth Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:15:08 EST news135522908