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. The community-associated strain of the deadly superbug MRSA -- an infection-causing bacteria resistant to most common antibiotics -- poses a far greater health threat than previously known and is making its way into hospitals, according to a study in the December issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases. http://www.physorg.com/news178264346.html Medicine & Health Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:30:01 EST news178264346 Amphibians, for years considered a leading indicator of environmental degradation, are not uniquely susceptible to pollution, according to a meta-analysis to be published in Ecology Letters. http://www.physorg.com/news177155119.html Biology Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:47:11 EST news177155119 Japanese researchers have developed a computer program which may be able tell from an emergency call if you are about to die. Research published in the open access journal BMC Emergency Medicine shows that a computer algorithm is able to predict the patient's risk of dying at the time of the emergency call. http://www.physorg.com/news175328694.html Medicine & Health Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:40:02 EST news175328694 Five giant non-native snake species would pose high risks to the health of ecosystems in the United States should they become established here, according to a U.S. Geological Survey report released today. http://www.physorg.com/news174665310.html Biology Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:00:02 EST news174665310 (AP) -- A panel of university and private-sector scientists urged Congress on Thursday not to overregulate laboratories that handle the world's deadliest pathogens, saying it could have a chilling effect on research of biological threats. http://www.physorg.com/news173539166.html Medicine & Health Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:50:01 EST news173539166 The U.S. Forest Service Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center (EFETAC) recently launched the Comparative Risk Assessment Framework and Tools (CRAFT), a user-friendly, Web-based support system that helps natural resource managers address uncertainties inherent in land management decisions. CRAFT offers a structured, simplified approach to determine objectives and calculates risks and tradeoffs associated with different management scenarios. http://www.physorg.com/news173025358.html Space & Earth Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:40:01 EST news173025358 If the future warming trends that scientists have projected are realized, one of the country's most aggressive exotic plants will have the potential to invade more U.S. land area, according to a new study published in the current issue of the journal Invasive Plant Science and Management. The study found that tamarisk -prevalent today in some parts of the region, but generally limited to warm and dry environments -could expand its range into currently uninvaded areas. http://www.physorg.com/news172246709.html Biology Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:40:05 EST news172246709 Scientists are, for the first time, objectively evaluating ways to help species adapt to rapid climate change and other environmental threats via strategies that were considered too radical for serious consideration as recently as five or 10 years ago. Among these radical strategies currently being considered is so-called "managed relocation." Managed relocation, which is also known as "assisted migration," involves manually moving species into more accommodating habitats where they are not currently found. http://www.physorg.com/news162491300.html Biology Mon, 25 May 2009 17:28:50 EST news162491300 Cisco on Tuesday unveiled tools to harden computer network defenses of businesses that use software applications as services on the Internet. http://www.physorg.com/news159548293.html Technology Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:58:44 EST news159548293 (PhysOrg.com) -- Let's say a white student and a black student both score 1020 on their SATs. They're performing right around the national average, so based on their scores it stands to reason they're both typical students with the same level of potential, right? http://www.physorg.com/news154713676.html Medicine & Health Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:02:17 EST news154713676 (PhysOrg.com) -- At the end of July 2008, major news agencies reported an outbreak of jalapeņo-related salmonella that sickened more than 1,000 people in Mexico and the United States. It was the biggest outbreak of its kind in decades. http://www.physorg.com/news149346537.html Medicine & Health Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:08:57 EST news149346537 (PhysOrg.com) -- Over the past two decades, Michael Dickinson has been interviewed by reporters hundreds of times about his research on the biomechanics of insect flight. One question from the press has always dogged him: Why are flies so hard to swat? http://www.physorg.com/news139142949.html Biology Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:49:09 EST news139142949 The underperformance in examinations of UK medical students from ethnic minorities could be partly down to a psychological phenomenon called 'stereotype threat', according to new UCL research published today in the British Medical Journal. http://www.physorg.com/news138273497.html Medicine & Health Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:18:17 EST news138273497 A fire is currently burning through a study area where projections were made about fire behavior about 2 years ago. Managers used data and analysis from the Gotchen Late-Successional Reserve (LSR) study in the planning, analysis, and implementation of treatments near where the Cold Springs fire is now active. http://www.physorg.com/news136122287.html Space & Earth Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:44:47 EST news136122287