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) -- The killer lurking in the shadows of the current heat wave may be hot nights. http://phys.org/news230483695.html Space & Earth Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:15:14 EST news230483695 Tropical Storm Dora was just a depression yesterday. Since then, NASA satellite imagery has watched Dora continue to strengthen as thunderstorm cloud tops have grown much colder. Dora is now stirring up high seas in the eastern Pacific and beach goers in southwestern will encounter warnings because of high surf Dora is kicking up. Warnings are also posted for three western Mexican states. http://phys.org/news230299226.html Space & Earth Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:00:55 EST news230299226 On the evening of Feb. 2, 1942, an unarmed tanker with 66,000 barrels of crude oil on board was steaming in the Atlantic, about 90 miles off Ocean City, Md. Without warning, it was struck by German torpedoes. The attack set the W.L. Steed ablaze, and sank it; only a handful of the crew of 38 survived. http://phys.org/news230127360.html Space & Earth Sun, 17 Jul 2011 13:16:24 EST news230127360 Scientists have come up with a possible explanation for why the rise in Earth's temperature paused for a bit during the 2000s, one of the hottest decades on record. http://phys.org/news229016674.html Space & Earth Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:45:32 EST news229016674 Epic floods, massive wildfires, drought and the deadliest tornado season in 60 years are ravaging the United States, with scientists warning that climate change will bring even more extreme weather. http://phys.org/news228539534.html Space & Earth Wed, 29 Jun 2011 05:20:04 EST news228539534 Greenland's ice sheet melted the most it has in over a half century last year, US government scientists said Tuesday in one of a series of "unmistakable" signs of climate change. http://phys.org/news228499835.html Space & Earth Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:10:47 EST news228499835 (AP) -- Wyoming has become the first state to begin using a suite of cloud computing tools from Google for its entire executive branch of government, allowing data and applications to be stored on remote servers and accessed over the Internet. http://phys.org/news227976712.html Technology Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:52:08 EST news227976712 ANN ARBOR, Mich.---Extreme flooding of the Mississippi River this spring is expected to result in the largest Gulf of Mexico "dead zone" on record, according to a University of Michigan aquatic ecologist and his colleagues. http://phys.org/news227349147.html Space & Earth Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:32:41 EST news227349147 (AP) -- Business, academic and environmental leaders are stressing the importance of weather satellites in an era of tight federal budgets. http://phys.org/news227282726.html Space & Earth Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:05:40 EST news227282726 On May 20th, a group of kindergarten thru sixth-grade teachers from accross the United States topped off a visit to the nation's capital by meeting with President Barack Obama. The meeting honored teachers who received the prestigious Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST). http://phys.org/news226169406.html Other Sciences Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:50:33 EST news226169406 US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano warned Wednesday that a "heavy" US hurricane season could be in store, after briefing President Barack Obama on latest forecasts. http://phys.org/news226163039.html Space & Earth Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:04:20 EST news226163039 Hurricane season starts today, June 1, in the Atlantic Ocean and the tropics are paying attention to the calendar. The GOES-13 satellite has been capturing images of a low pressure area that formed off the North Carolina coast yesterday and is now located off of the northeastern Florida coast. http://phys.org/news226158593.html Space & Earth Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:50:09 EST news226158593 The Atlantic hurricane season kicks off Wednesday with elevated threats to the United States and nations around the Caribbean, the latest forecasts show. http://phys.org/news226072655.html Space & Earth Tue, 31 May 2011 14:57:50 EST news226072655 The deaths of over 150 dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico so far this year is due in part to the devastating 2010 BP oil spill and the chemical dispersants used to contain it, a report said Thursday. http://phys.org/news225691064.html Space & Earth Fri, 27 May 2011 05:10:01 EST news225691064 Coastal communities hard hit by ocean acidification hotspots have more options than they may realize, says an interdisciplinary team of science and legal experts. In a paper published in the journal Science, experts from Stanford University's Center for Ocean Solutions and colleagues make the case that communities don't need to wait for a global solution to ocean acidification to fix a local problem that is compromising their marine environment. Many localized acidification hotspots can be traced to local contributors of acidity that can be addressed using existing laws, they wrote. http://phys.org/news225637250.html Space & Earth Thu, 26 May 2011 14:01:44 EST news225637250 The United States is experiencing the deadliest year for tornadoes in nearly six decades, but a top US weather expert said Monday there is no link between the violent twisters and climate change. http://phys.org/news225386085.html Space & Earth Mon, 23 May 2011 16:15:00 EST news225386085 The Atlantic will experience a rougher than normal hurricane season this year with up to 10 hurricanes, the US weather service forecast Thursday. http://phys.org/news225034185.html Space & Earth Thu, 19 May 2011 14:50:05 EST news225034185 With summer around the corner, millions worldwide will head to pristine beaches and waterways. However, with items such as bottles, cans and other debris washing up on U.S. shores each year, the University of Georgia and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, have teamed up to create a new, innovative cell phone reporting mechanism to combat the marine debris problem. http://phys.org/news224845877.html Space & Earth Tue, 17 May 2011 10:12:12 EST news224845877 The predictability and scale of seasonal changes in a habitat help determine the distance migratory species move and whether the animals always travel together to the same place or independently to different locations, according to a paper published online in February in Global Ecology and Biogeography by the National Zoo's Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute researchers and partners. http://phys.org/news224341459.html Biology Wed, 11 May 2011 14:04:33 EST news224341459 Indiana University Bloomington scientists will use knowledge about methane production by cold-weather microbes on Earth to help NASA zero in on evidence for similar, carbon-based microbes that could have evolved on Mars, the Jovian moon Europa, or Saturn's Enceladus. http://phys.org/news224335428.html Space & Earth Wed, 11 May 2011 12:25:09 EST news224335428 To determine how best to explore asteroids in the future, NASA scientists and engineers are taking their experiments underwater in the 15th expedition of NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations, or NEEMO. http://phys.org/news224250654.html Space & Earth Tue, 10 May 2011 12:51:16 EST news224250654 (AP) -- April was a historic month for wild weather in the United States, and it wasn't just the killer tornado outbreak that set records, according to scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. http://phys.org/news224217558.html Space & Earth Tue, 10 May 2011 03:40:00 EST news224217558 (AP) -- A Commerce Department investigation has found no evidence of wrongdoing on the part of federal climate researchers whose e-mails were leaked in the debate over global climate change. http://phys.org/news217778181.html Space & Earth Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:56:33 EST news217778181 Nearly all US federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico are now open to fishing, in the latest sign of recovery from a huge oil spill, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Monday. http://phys.org/news209065716.html Space & Earth Mon, 15 Nov 2010 18:20:06 EST news209065716 For the first time, federal scientists have found damage to deep sea coral and other marine life on the ocean floor several miles from the blown-out BP well - a strong indication that damage from the spill could be significantly greater than officials had previously acknowledged. http://phys.org/news208230826.html Space & Earth Sat, 06 Nov 2010 02:54:04 EST news208230826 Above-average temperatures this year could spark massive coral bleaching in the Caribbean basin region, experts with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) warned Wednesday after a major study. http://phys.org/news204437848.html Space & Earth Thu, 23 Sep 2010 05:40:01 EST news204437848 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released a report today that showed dissolved oxygen levels have dropped by about 20 percent from their long-term average in the Gulf of Mexico in areas where federal and independent scientists previously reported the presence of subsurface oil. Scientists from agencies involved in the report attribute the lower dissolved oxygen levels to microbes using oxygen to consume the oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. http://phys.org/news203087194.html Space & Earth Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:20:01 EST news203087194 (AP) -- Fish, shrimp and other catches from the Gulf of Mexico are being ground up to hunt for minute traces of oil in what's considered unprecedented safety testing - sort of a "CSI" for seafood that's far more reassuring than the sniff test that made all the headlines. http://phys.org/news201190490.html Space & Earth Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:50:01 EST news201190490 (AP) -- Scientists will be using laser beams, computer software and airplanes to piece together what they say will be the most detailed map ever assembled of the California coastline. http://phys.org/news198747092.html Space & Earth Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:10:01 EST news198747092 (PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time in nine years, NASA and other federal agencies will use aircraft and satellites this summer to mount an intensive, U.S.-based study of how hurricanes are born and rapidly intensify, and a University of Utah meteorologist is one of three project scientists leading the study. http://phys.org/news198242209.html Space & Earth Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:50:01 EST news198242209