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. (AP) -- Overstock.com, the online retailer known for selling distressed merchandise, was feeling a little distressed itself. With household merchandise stacking up in a warehouse, it opened the doors Thursday for an auction of goods assembled hodgepodge that had to be bought together on pallets. http://phys.org/news243279312.html Technology Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:35:32 EST news243279312 (PhysOrg.com) -- A study of the genetic structure of viruses in an Antarctic lake has revealed an astonishing genetic richness in the large number of viral families discovered. http://phys.org/news177147268.html Biology Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:40:01 EST news177147268 (PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell researchers released a well-studied beetle predator to test its ability to ward off a hemlock-killing aphid-like insect. http://phys.org/news177151741.html Biology Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:20:02 EST news177151741 Residents of the U.S. Gulf coast thought they were getting a break this hurricane season until Ida showed up. Today, November 9, Ida is a hurricane and is headed for a landfall in the western Florida Panhandle after midnight. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-12 captured a look at Ida's extensive clouds this morning, and they stretch from Florida's west coast to eastern Texas. At 8:30 a.m. ET (7:30 CT), showers and thunderstorms had already spread into eastern Texas, Louisiana, southern Mississippi and Alabama and the Florida Panhandle. http://phys.org/news176997266.html Space & Earth Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:20:05 EST news176997266 A day at the beach in Wisconsin's North Woods didn't used to go like this. Candy Dailey spent a Fourth of July holiday splashing with grandkids on the sandy shore of Lake Metonga when she felt a nasty sting on her foot. http://phys.org/news176972286.html Biology Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:59:07 EST news176972286 The impact of airborne nitrogen released from the burning of fossil fuels and wide-spread use of fertilizers in agriculture is much greater that previously recognized and even extends to remote alpine lakes, according to a study published Nov. 6 in the journal Science. http://phys.org/news176655560.html Space & Earth Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:00:01 EST news176655560 (AP) -- Scientists investigating a large crater initially believed to have been caused by a meteorite said a closer analysis Monday revealed it was a hoax. http://phys.org/news175758595.html Space & Earth Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:56:03 EST news175758595 An analysis of sediment cores indicates that biological and chemical changes occurring at a remote Arctic lake are unprecedented over the past 200,000 years and likely are the result of human-caused climate change, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder. http://phys.org/news175188684.html Space & Earth Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:20:02 EST news175188684 (PhysOrg.com) -- Some Canadian rivers are at risk of drying up as impacts of climate change intersect with growing water demand from the country's cities, industries and agriculture, a new WWF report has found. http://phys.org/news174826100.html Space & Earth Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:49:21 EST news174826100 Swiss researchers have found that Alpine glaciers melting under the impact of climate change are releasing highly toxic pollutants that had been absorbed by the ice for decades. http://phys.org/news174735023.html Space & Earth Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:31:07 EST news174735023 (PhysOrg.com) -- The Cornell assistant professor of astronomy works on instrumentation that searches the night skies for planets outside our solar system, called extrasolar planets. http://phys.org/news174650224.html Space & Earth Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:00:01 EST news174650224 If you spend an afternoon walking along the muddy shore of Mono Lake, with the eastern flank of the Sierra Nevada mountains looming majestically in the background, you’ll no doubt discover, as others have before, that it is a place of bizarre natural beauty. http://phys.org/news173988321.html Biology Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:06:19 EST news173988321 (PhysOrg.com) -- The federal government may not have been able to save California from massive budget cuts, but at least a stimulus research grant will help scientists understand the biology of western lakes. http://phys.org/news173712678.html Space & Earth Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:00:03 EST news173712678 A 22-year-old Orlando-area man is hospitalized after being infected with the same deadly amoeba that killed three boys in 2007, according to the Orange County, Fla., Health Department. http://phys.org/news172861361.html Medicine & Health Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:40:01 EST news172861361 (PhysOrg.com) -- A toxin produced by freshwater algae has garnered plenty of media coverage in recent years, but a new University of Florida study shows there’s little cause for concern about its presence in Florida lakes. http://phys.org/news172854024.html Space & Earth Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:50:02 EST news172854024 Predicting harmful algal blooms, or HABs, in the Great Lakes is now a reality as NOAA announces an experimental HAB forecast system in Lake Erie. HABs produce toxins that may pose a significant risk to human and animal health through water recreation and may form scum that are unsightly and odorous to beach visitors, impacting the coastal economy. Forecasts depicting current and future locations of blooms, as well as intensity, will alert scientists and managers to possible threats to the Great Lakes beaches and assist in mitigation efforts. http://phys.org/news172424327.html Space & Earth Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:40:01 EST news172424327 (PhysOrg.com) -- On Sept. 11, a standard cruise on Lake Mendota's University Bay began for students in University of Wisconsin-Madison's Zoology 315, a course that introduces them to the study of lakes. With the sampling craft Limnos anchored about one-quarter mile offshore on a clear sunny day, four students pulled up a small net and began poking through its contents. http://phys.org/news172338579.html Biology Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:00:02 EST news172338579 (PhysOrg.com) -- Antarctica's Lake Vida, a geologic curiosity that is essentially an ice bottle of brine, is home to some of the oldest and coldest living organisms on Earth. Perpetually covered by more than 60 feet of ice, the brine below -- water that is five to seven times more salty than seawater -- has been found to be home to cryobiological microbes some 2,800 years old which were revived after a gradual thaw. http://phys.org/news172171624.html Space & Earth Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:28:04 EST news172171624 (PhysOrg.com) -- A giant African lake basin is providing information about possible migration routes and hunting practices of early humans in the Middle and Late Stone Age periods, between 150,000 and 10,000 years ago. http://phys.org/news171790409.html Other Sciences Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:33:53 EST news171790409 Steep reductions in the abundance of fish, shellfish, and other aquatic fauna in recent centuries are not restricted to animals that live in the sea: historical records show that species in rivers and lakes worldwide also experienced sharp declines. Yet the significance of these declines in freshwater species is frequently overlooked by natural resource managers, according to an article in the September 2009 issue of BioScience. http://phys.org/news171007079.html Biology Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:10:01 EST news171007079 (PhysOrg.com) -- Released today, UC Davis' annual Lake Tahoe health report describes a spreading Asian clam population that could put sharp shells and rotting algae on the spectacular mountain lake's popular beaches, possibly aid an invasion of quagga and zebra mussels, and even affect lake clarity and ecology. http://phys.org/news169833736.html Space & Earth Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:40:01 EST news169833736 The nation's cleanest beachwaters are along the upper half of the Atlantic seaboard, in Virginia, Delaware and New Hampshire, a national environmental group said Wednesday. http://phys.org/news168198589.html Space & Earth Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:10:01 EST news168198589 (PhysOrg.com) -- The rainbow smelt, an invasive fish that threatens native species such as walleye and perch, may soon be feeling the heat -- literally. http://phys.org/news168190094.html Space & Earth Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:40:01 EST news168190094 The ice is melting, the sea level is rising and species are conquering new habitats. The warming of the world climate has many consequences. In the current issue of the renowned journal 'Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences' researchers from the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR) and the HYAX Lake Ecosystem Laboratory in Aix-en-Provence (Germany) report that climate change influences the size of aquatic organisms. http://phys.org/news167550944.html Biology Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:10:01 EST news167550944 An international consortium has found that wild chimpanzees naturally infected with Simian Immunodeficiency Viruses (SIV) - long thought to be harmless to the apes - can contract an AIDS-like syndrome and die as a result. The findings are published in the July 23 edition of the journal Nature. http://phys.org/news167488142.html Biology Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:30:40 EST news167488142 (PhysOrg.com) -- Suspending a life in time is a theme that normally finds itself in the pages of science fiction, but now such ideas have become a reality in the annals of science. http://phys.org/news167059896.html Biology Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:32:10 EST news167059896 (AP) -- Federal officials have told the Idaho fish and game officials that their plan to halve the number of pelicans nesting in southern and eastern Idaho by 2013 to boost fisheries is an "eradication program" that needs more work. http://phys.org/news165735854.html Biology Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:44:43 EST news165735854 Immobilized microbes can break down potentially harmful phthalates, according to researchers in China, writing in the International Journal of Environment and Pollution. The microbes might be used to treat industrial waste water and so prevent these materials from entering the environment. http://phys.org/news164631553.html Biology Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:59:39 EST news164631553 A University of Colorado at Boulder research team has discovered the first definitive evidence of shorelines on Mars, an indication of a deep, ancient lake there and a finding with implications for the discovery of past life on the Red Planet. http://phys.org/news164508817.html Space & Earth Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:53:56 EST news164508817 (PhysOrg.com) -- Formic acid, a compound implicated in the origins of life, has been found at record levels on a meteorite that fell onto a frozen Canadian lake in 2000. http://phys.org/news163259938.html Space & Earth Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:00:34 EST news163259938