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. Cod was once a staple diet across many European countries, and so important in fact that in the past some countries have even gone to war over this important resource. Their popularity, however, meant that they have become overfished in some areas leading to a shortage of large and old cod, which in turn has led to the fish becoming more sexually mature at a younger age. This, according to research conducted by the University of Gothenburg, Sweden has led to a serious change in cod stocks and could severely impact the fish's health, physiological ageing and reproductive capacity. http://phys.org/news270111963.html Biology Mon, 22 Oct 2012 08:06:15 EST news270111963 Electronic books, which have sparked excited chatter for several years in the publishing world, are now gaining momentum among European readers, despite a late start compared to the US, industry insiders say. http://phys.org/news269180164.html Technology Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:30:01 EST news269180164 Swedish music streaming service Spotify said Wednesday the South Korean electronics giant Samsung would be first to offer its music catalogue on its Smart TVs in Europe. http://phys.org/news269101700.html Technology Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:28:27 EST news269101700 Arianespace has launched two satellites from the South American country of French Guiana that will provide telecommunication services to the Eastern Hemisphere. http://phys.org/news268114247.html Space & Earth Sat, 29 Sep 2012 05:11:24 EST news268114247 Improved technology has driven down credit card fraud in Europe dramatically, the European Central Bank said Wednesday in its first-ever report on the issue. http://phys.org/news262455488.html Technology Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:18:34 EST news262455488 A study led by Dr Bryony Hoskins at the University of Southampton for the European Commission (EC) has warned of the dangers of concentrating solely on economic policies to create growth in European countries. http://phys.org/news259838126.html Other Sciences Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:15:46 EST news259838126 (Phys.org) -- The results of an international study, using data from globally available field research, indicate that current pesticide approval procedures do not adequately protect the environment. http://phys.org/news257759017.html Space & Earth Fri, 01 Jun 2012 08:43:49 EST news257759017 Coming from the Asian continent, Drosophila suzukii has only been in Spain for a short time. Far away from slipping through into the Iberian Peninsula, it accelerated towards the north of Europe where it has already crossed the Alps. Amongst its preferred target are cherries and red fruits but any type of fruit is suitable for it to lay its eggs. This insect is posing a threat to the fruit of more and more European countries. http://phys.org/news251110500.html Biology Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:55:57 EST news251110500 Social network website Facebook, which has around 850 million users worldwide, went down in several mainly European countries on Wednesday for around two hours, users and the company said. http://phys.org/news250324098.html Technology Wed, 07 Mar 2012 06:28:30 EST news250324098 A new livestock disease causing deformities in animals at birth is spreading rapidly in Germany, with at least five European countries affected to date, agriculture authorities said Wednesday. http://phys.org/news247305387.html Biology Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:56:35 EST news247305387 Finnish-German telecom equipment maker Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) said Tuesday a previously announced restructuring plan would entail 2,900 job cuts in Germany and 1,200 in Finland. http://phys.org/news247241544.html Technology Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:30:01 EST news247241544 Despite a slowly improving U.S. economy, Americans have watched the stock market continue on its roller coaster ride, in large part because of uncertainty about the economic future of European countries, such as Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Spain and Italy, experiencing well-publicized problems. An international finance expert from the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University explains what we can expect as we enter the New Year in the future of the Eurozone. http://phys.org/news245661285.html Other Sciences Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:15:03 EST news245661285 The hunt for elusive neutrinos will soon get its largest and most powerful tool yet: the enormous KM3NeT telescope, currently under development by a consortium of 40 institutions from ten European countries. Once completed KM3NeT will be the second-largest structure ever made by humans, after the Great Wall of China, and taller than the Burj Khalifa in Dubai… but submerged beneath 3,200 feet of ocean! http://phys.org/news243687186.html Physics Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:20:02 EST news243687186 Researchers at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) have compared internet use and frequency in Spain with the rest of the 31 European countries. Their results suggest that Spanish women use the internet less frequently and the usage gap in Spain between men and women is higher than average. http://phys.org/news242485163.html Other Sciences Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:59:32 EST news242485163 Thanks to a new model created by an international research group, it is now possible to predict which European countries are more likely to become united or which are more likely to break up. It does so by not only considering demographic and economic criteria but, most ingeniously of all, culture and genetics. http://phys.org/news240747176.html Other Sciences Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:13:15 EST news240747176 Google is dealing with more government demands to turn over information about its users as more people immerse themselves online. http://phys.org/news238776150.html Technology Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:42:39 EST news238776150 Pesticides are a bigger problem than had long been assumed. This is the conclusion of a study in which scientists analysed data on 500 organic substances in the basins of four major European rivers. It was revealed that 38 per cent of these chemicals are present in concentrations which could potentially have an effect on organisms. According to scientists writing in the journal Science of the Total Environment, this conclusion clearly shows that contamination by organic chemicals is a problem throughout Europe. Most of the substances classified as a risk to the environment in the study were pesticides; the majority of these are not on the European list of priority substances which have to be monitored regularly. They therefore believe that the list of chemicals specified by the EU Water Framework Directive as having to be monitored by national authorities urgently needs to be revised. http://phys.org/news237725881.html Space & Earth Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:58:11 EST news237725881 A German court has lifted a ban on sales of Samsung's new tablet computer in most European countries that it initially imposed following a complaint by US rival Apple. http://phys.org/news232774933.html Technology Wed, 17 Aug 2011 04:42:39 EST news232774933 After finally launching in the United States, Swedish online music star Spotify now has its sights set on building the world's largest music catalog. http://phys.org/news230488844.html Technology Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:40:53 EST news230488844 The death toll from a killer E. coli outbreak centred in Germany has risen to 50 with another death in Germany and one in the United States, health authorities said Thursday. http://phys.org/news228666230.html Medicine & Health Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:24:07 EST news228666230 If the question was misunderstood by the waiter in a Bucharest restaurant, the irony wasn't lost on the customer who cringed after asking, "Do you have a smoke-free area?" http://phys.org/news228020899.html Medicine & Health Thu, 23 Jun 2011 04:08:31 EST news228020899 European countries agreed on Thursday to begin drawing up the first legally-binding accord to protect the continent's forests, the Norwegian government said. http://phys.org/news227366156.html Space & Earth Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:16:07 EST news227366156 Specialists in high-tech labs tested thousands of vegetables as they hunted for the source of world's deadliest E. coli outbreak, but in the end it was old-fashioned detective work that provided the answer: German-grown sprouts. http://phys.org/news226901118.html Medicine & Health Fri, 10 Jun 2011 05:05:28 EST news226901118 (AP) -- Scientists on Thursday blamed Europe's worst recorded food-poisoning outbreak on a "super-toxic" strain of E. coli bacteria that may be brand new. http://phys.org/news226215975.html Medicine & Health Thu, 02 Jun 2011 14:20:14 EST news226215975 (AP) -- Russia on Thursday extended its ban on vegetable imports to all of the EU in a bid to prevent a deadly European bacterial outbreak that has left 17 people dead from spreading into the country. http://phys.org/news226210501.html Medicine & Health Thu, 02 Jun 2011 05:15:19 EST news226210501 (AP) -- Europeans traded blame Monday over the source of a mysterious bacterial outbreak that has killed 14 people and sickened hundreds across the continent and forced Russia to ban imports of some fresh vegetables from Spain and Germany out of fear they could be contaminated. http://phys.org/news225986359.html Medicine & Health Mon, 30 May 2011 14:59:33 EST news225986359 New drugs are flooding the European market at an "unprecedented pace", the European drug monitoring centre and Europol warned in a joint report released in Portugal on Wednesday. http://phys.org/news224324527.html Medicine & Health Wed, 11 May 2011 09:22:43 EST news224324527 Twenty-five years after the Chernobyl disaster, Europe is still divided on the use of nuclear energy. But the Fukushima crisis stirred new fears that could slow down nuclear expansion. http://phys.org/news222349063.html Technology Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:10:01 EST news222349063 Three-quarters of Europe's children have a profile on a social networking website, while one in five under 13 manage to dodge Facebook's age restriction, a survey showed Monday. http://phys.org/news222349092.html Technology Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:20:01 EST news222349092 Economists from the Bank of Spain's Research Department have published a study on the direct, indirect and 'second time around' effects of oil prices on the economies of Spain and those of the European Monetary Union (EMU). The results show that Spanish inflation reflects oil prices than more directly inflation in the euro area overall. http://phys.org/news220873518.html Other Sciences Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:45:35 EST news220873518