http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. A new language has been discovered in a remote Indigenous community in northern Australia that is generated from a unique combination of elements from other languages. Light Warlpiri has been documented by University of Michigan linguist Carmel O'Shannessy, in a study on "The role of multiple sources in the formation of an innovative auxiliary category in Light Warlpiri, a new Australian mixed language," to be published in the June, 2013 issue of the scholarly journal Language. http://phys.org/news290711446.html Other Sciences Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:07 EST news290711446 The plane parked outside the airport looks more like a giant exotic insect or maybe an outsized toy. http://phys.org/news290710614.html Technology Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:10:01 EST news290710614 On June 12, 2013, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of the Silver fire burning east of Silver City, New Mexico. In addition to producing gray smoke plumes, the fire spawned a pyrocumulus cloud—a tall, cauliflower-shaped cloud that billowed up above the smoke. http://phys.org/news290710133.html Space & Earth Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:49:01 EST news290710133 Millions of moths have engulfed Madrid in a population explosion blamed on spring rains, a sudden blast of summer heat and winds that have wafted them in as unwelcome guests to the Spanish capital. http://phys.org/news290710077.html Biology Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:48:03 EST news290710077 Tropical Depression 2 formed in the western Caribbean Sea during the early afternoon hours (Eastern Daylight Time) on June 17. NOAA's GOES-13 satellite captured an image of the storm as it consolidated enough to become a tropical depression while approaching the coast of Belize. NOAA's GOES-13 satellite sits in a fixed orbit and monitors the weather in the eastern half of the continental United States and the Atlantic Ocean. NASA's GOES Project at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland uses the data from GOES-13 and creates imagery. http://phys.org/news290709892.html Space & Earth Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:44:58 EST news290709892 System 91W appears ripe to become Tropical Depression 4 in the next couple of days as it continues moving north and parallels the east coast of the Philippines. NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible image of the developing low pressure area as it passed overhead in space on June 17. http://phys.org/news290709640.html Space & Earth Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:40:46 EST news290709640 A top Apple executive downplayed the theory of an e-book price-fixing conspiracy at an antitrust trial Monday, saying publishers were already moving away from Amazon's model when Apple launched its iPad. http://phys.org/news290699735.html Technology Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:10:02 EST news290699735 Blind people sometimes develop the amazing ability to perceive the contours of the room they're in based only on auditory information. Bats and dolphins use the same echolocation technique for navigating in their environment. http://phys.org/news290694935.html Technology Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:00:22 EST news290694935 Ocean acidification due to rising carbon dioxide levels will reduce the density of coral skeletons, making coral reefs more vulnerable to disruption and erosion, according to a new study of corals growing where submarine springs naturally lower the pH of seawater. http://phys.org/news290694436.html Space & Earth Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:00:19 EST news290694436 A new study shows that the predator-prey relationship can affect the flow of carbon through an ecosystem. This previously unmeasured influence on the environment may offer a new way of looking at biodiversity management and carbon storage for climate change. http://phys.org/news290695013.html Space & Earth Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:00:17 EST news290695013 The pesticides, many of which are currently used in Europe and Australia, are responsible for reducing the regional diversity of invertebrates in streams and rivers by up to 42 percent, researchers report in the Proceedings of the US Academy of Sciences (PNAS). http://phys.org/news290695155.html Biology Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:00:15 EST news290695155 Sustainability programs are a Goldilocks proposition – some groups are too big, some are too small, and the environment benefits when the size of a group of people working to save it is just right. http://phys.org/news290695477.html Space & Earth Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:00:13 EST news290695477 An antibiotic has been found to stimulate its own production. The findings, to be published in PNAS, could make it easier to scale up antibiotic production for commercialisation. http://phys.org/news290695227.html Biology Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:00:01 EST news290695227 Google has resolved a shareholder lawsuit blocking a long-delayed stock split, clearing the way for the Internet search leader to issue a new class of non-voting shares later this year. http://phys.org/news290699696.html Technology Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:55:04 EST news290699696 A mysterious Facebook event set for Thursday has sparked buzz that the leading social network could be adding video to Instagram smartphone picture-sharing service. http://phys.org/news290699250.html Technology Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:50:01 EST news290699250 A project that asks hikers, fishermen, birdwatchers, school kids and nature-lovers of all stripes to monitor stream levels is expanding from its home base in Western New York to three new states: Iowa, Michigan and Wisconsin. http://phys.org/news290699186.html Space & Earth Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:46:41 EST news290699186 Iceland has resumed its disputed commercial fin whale hunt, with two vessels en route to catch this season's quota of at least 154 whales, Icelandic media reported on Monday. http://phys.org/news290698748.html Biology Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:42:53 EST news290698748 French and U.S. experts are continuing their search for the 17th-century ship Griffin, which they believe sank in northern Lake Michigan in 1679. http://phys.org/news290696101.html Other Sciences Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:56:15 EST news290696101 High-frequency trading strategies that exploit today's fragmented equity markets reduce investor profits overall, according to new findings by University of Michigan engineering researchers. The study is believed to be the first to examine how a common and lucrative trading practice known as latency arbitrage can exploit both market rules and the recent growth in the number of venues where stocks can change hands. The researchers will present the findings June 20 at the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce in Philadelphia. http://phys.org/news290696027.html Other Sciences Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:54:07 EST news290696027 (Phys.org) —In research published in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, Saint Louis University researchers describe a technology that can detect new, previously unknown viruses. The technique offers the potential to screen patients for viruses even when doctors have not identified a particular virus as the likely source of an infection. http://phys.org/news290695906.html Chemistry Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:51:53 EST news290695906 Two major figures in the European space industry on Monday backed plans to modify the Ariane 5 rocket to help it shoot larger satellites into orbit. http://phys.org/news290694077.html Space & Earth Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:21:25 EST news290694077 In a major collaboration, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Intel will unveil a new process for parallel programming systems at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) held in Tel Aviv, Israel, June 23-27. This process, called QuickRec, allows steps in a process to be retraced to learn where something went wrong. It is a prototype for a multicore Intel architecture record and replay system for multithreaded programs. http://phys.org/news290692722.html Technology Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:58:50 EST news290692722 Netflix is going to start running original television series from Dreamworks Animation. http://phys.org/news290692313.html Technology Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:52:08 EST news290692313 The deep-space telescope Herschel took its final bow on Monday, climaxing a successful four-year mission to observe the birth of stars and galaxies, the European Space Agency (ESA) said. http://phys.org/news290692260.html Space & Earth Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:51:17 EST news290692260 An Israeli committee has chosen a consortium led by Swedish company ViaEuropa to build a nationwide high-speed broadband network. http://phys.org/news290692205.html Technology Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:50:13 EST news290692205 A newspaper report that British eavesdropping agency GCHQ repeatedly hacked into foreign diplomats' phones and emails has prompted an angry response from traditional rival Russia and provoked demands for an investigation from Turkey and South Africa. http://phys.org/news290692182.html Technology Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:49:49 EST news290692182 The US space agency announced the appointment of eight new astronauts on Monday, and a record half of NASA's first astronaut class since 2009 are women. http://phys.org/news290692119.html Space & Earth Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:49:08 EST news290692119 Home remodelers understand the concept of improving original foundations with more modern elements. Using this same approach—but with chemistry—researchers in the University of Pittsburgh's Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences have designed a family of materials that could make drug delivery, gas storage, and gas transport more efficient and at a lower cost. The findings were reported in the latest issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS). http://phys.org/news290692008.html Chemistry Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:47:44 EST news290692008 Amphibian populations are declining worldwide and a major cause is a deadly fungus thought to be spread by bullfrogs, but a two-year study shows they can also die from this pathogen, contrary to suggestions that bullfrogs are a tolerant carrier host that just spreads the disease. http://phys.org/news290691794.html Biology Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:43:38 EST news290691794 Systems such as a beating heart or a power grid that depend on the synchronized movement of their parts could fall prey to an invisible and chaotic tug-of-war known as a "chimera." Sharing its name with the fire-breathing, zoologically patchy creature of Greek mythology, a chimera state arises among identical, rhythmically moving components—known as oscillators—when a few of those parts spontaneously fall out of sync while the rest remain synchronized. http://phys.org/news290688782.html Physics Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:53:11 EST news290688782