https://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. Xiaomi Corp. plans to raise up to $6.1 billion in one of the biggest global stock market debuts in recent years as it tries to become a worldwide brand alongside Apple, Google and Amazon. https://phys.org/news/2018-06-xiaomi-billion-hong-kong-ipo.html Business Sat, 23 Jun 2018 05:30:00 EDT news448950583 As World Cup fever sets in, increased hooliganism and football related violence are legitimate international concerns. Previous research has linked sports-related hooliganism to 'social maladjustment' e.g. previous episodes of violence or dysfunctional behaviour at home, work or school etc. However, social bonding and a desire to protect and defend other fans may be one of the main motivations not only for football hooliganism, but extremist group behaviour in general, according to new Oxford University research. https://phys.org/news/2018-06-social-bonding-key-football-violence.html Social Sciences Sat, 23 Jun 2018 05:29:19 EDT news448950543 The Eagle Ford Group of Texas contains estimated means of 8.5 billion barrels of oil, 66 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, and 1.9 billion barrels of natural gas liquids, according to a new assessment by the U.S. Geological Survey. This estimate consists of undiscovered, technically recoverable resources in continuous accumulations. https://phys.org/news/2018-06-usgs-billion-barrels-oil-texas.html Environment Fri, 22 Jun 2018 17:40:18 EDT news448908007 While Tropical Storm Bud was lashing parts of western Mexico and causing flooding that extended into the American Southwest, a tropical disturbance was spinning over the Gulf of Mexico and straddling southeastern Texas. This system sat in place for almost a week bringing extremely heavy rainfall and causing a flash flood emergency. More than 15 inches (381 mm) of rain fell in Hidalgo County, Texas between June 18 and 22. https://phys.org/news/2018-06-imerg-southern-texas-tropical-disturbance.html Earth Sciences Fri, 22 Jun 2018 17:38:57 EDT news448907922 After a multi-day freeze triggered by a wave of spam messages, officials confirmed late Thursday that Oregon government emails could once again reach the public—and described the attack as part of a sophisticated scheme. https://phys.org/news/2018-06-oregon-email-hack-fed-scheme.html Security Fri, 22 Jun 2018 15:17:11 EDT news448899418 Saudi Arabia has said it has confiscated more than 12,000 pirating devices in the country, after rival Qatar's beIN Media accused broadcasters in the kingdom of bootlegging its World Cup broadcasts. https://phys.org/news/2018-06-saudis-pirating-devices-seized-qatar.html Business Fri, 22 Jun 2018 15:16:36 EDT news448899389 A cat-sized, weasel-like animal whose habitat in forests along California's northern coast is under threat from marijuana cultivation should receive endangered species status, state fish and wildlife officials said. https://phys.org/news/2018-06-california-endangered-marten.html Ecology Fri, 22 Jun 2018 14:16:06 EDT news448895755 A novel concept for a biosensor of the metabolite lactate combines an electron transporting polymer with lactate oxidase, which is the enzyme that specifically catalyzes the oxidation of lactate. Lactate is associated with critical medical conditions, so its detection is important for healthcare. https://phys.org/news/2018-06-metabolites-range.html Analytical Chemistry Fri, 22 Jun 2018 14:00:10 EDT news448864576 The city of Paris is pulling the plug on an electric car-sharing system once hailed as the future of urban transport, with officials voting to cancel the contract in the face of mounting losses. https://phys.org/news/2018-06-paris-slams-electric-car-sharing-scheme.html Energy & Green Tech Fri, 22 Jun 2018 13:12:56 EDT news448891965 General Motors confirmed Friday that it will produce a new sport-utility model in Mexico, despite President Donald Trump's efforts to pressure US companies to add manufacturing at home. https://phys.org/news/2018-06-gm-suv-mexico.html Business Fri, 22 Jun 2018 13:12:36 EDT news448891951 Police generally need a warrant to look at records that reveal where cellphone users have been, the Supreme Court ruled Friday in a big victory for privacy interests in the digital age. https://phys.org/news/2018-06-justices-digital-age-privacy-track-cellphones.html Security Fri, 22 Jun 2018 13:12:16 EDT news448891916 The chemicals used by a West Virginia factory to make non-stick products are dangerous at levels the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had thought were safe, according to a federal study that had been previously blocked from publication. https://phys.org/news/2018-06-federal-chemicals-toxic-epa-thought.html Environment Fri, 22 Jun 2018 13:11:35 EDT news448891881 Substantial reductions in a deadly root disease of wheat crops and corresponding increases in yields of grain and straw mark a significant advance in the continuing war to protect the staple cereal from the ravages of the take-all soil pathogen, to which it is highly susceptible. https://phys.org/news/2018-06-wheat-health.html Biotechnology Fri, 22 Jun 2018 13:08:53 EDT news448891718 The Large Scale Genomics Work Stream of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) has announced eight new implementations of its htsget protocol, a standard released in October 2017 for accessing large-scale genomic sequencing data online without using file transfers. The protocol and interoperability testing are reported in a paper released online this week in the journal Bioinformatics. https://phys.org/news/2018-06-ga4gh-streaming-api-htsget-bridge.html Biotechnology Fri, 22 Jun 2018 13:04:05 EDT news448891435 Art curators will be able to recover images on daguerreotypes, the earliest form of photography that used silver plates, after a team of scientists led by Western University learned how to use light to see through degradation that has occurred over time. https://phys.org/news/2018-06-team-uncovers-lost-images-19th.html Other Fri, 22 Jun 2018 13:02:53 EDT news448891285 Savvy gardeners know that they can adjust the color of hydrangea blossoms between pink and blue by altering the pH of the soil. But pH isn't the entire story. https://phys.org/news/2018-06-video-hydrangeas-strange-color-changing.html Other Fri, 22 Jun 2018 12:59:09 EDT news448891135 A fresh blueprint outlining how to rebuild the Internet to make it super slick at handling rising traffic from new technologies has been unveiled by scientists. https://phys.org/news/2018-06-problem-solvedinternet-sdn-network-scalability.html Telecom Fri, 22 Jun 2018 09:52:33 EDT news448879940 European Union lawmakers are unhappy that Facebook is refusing to comply with their request to send two senior officials to testify at a hearing into the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. https://phys.org/news/2018-06-eu-lawmakers-miffed-facebook-snub.html Internet Fri, 22 Jun 2018 09:50:01 EDT news448879249 Florida wildlife officials are awarding $250,000 to five organizations to research new ways to remove invasive lionfish from deep-water habitats. https://phys.org/news/2018-06-groups-florida-lionfish.html Ecology Fri, 22 Jun 2018 09:40:03 EDT news448878625 China's Hainan island has proposed allowing foreign visitors access to censored websites such as YouTube and Facebook, a double standard that has raised cries of indignation from the country's internet users. https://phys.org/news/2018-06-chinese-island-eyes-oasis-web.html Internet Fri, 22 Jun 2018 09:33:49 EDT news448878801 The African wild dogs are back. https://phys.org/news/2018-06-african-wild-dogs-comeback-mozambican.html Ecology Fri, 22 Jun 2018 09:32:12 EDT news448878724 Network theory is a method for analyzing the connections between nodes in a system. One of the most compelling aspects of network theory is that discoveries related to one field, such as cellular biology, can be abstracted to a form that applies directly to a completely different field, like interstate traffic patterns. The most well-known application of network theory is social networking. In a social network, each person is a node connected to other nodes. Additionally, a fraction of nodes within one network, so-called interlinks, will connect to nodes in neighboring networks. https://phys.org/news/2018-06-affects-resilience-network.html General Physics Fri, 22 Jun 2018 09:30:03 EDT news448864545 The Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over Lake Huron, the second largest of the five Great Lakes of North America. Bound on the north and east by the Canadian province of Ontario and on the south and west by the state of Michigan in the U.S., Lake Huron was the first of the Great Lakes to be seen by Europeans in 1615. https://phys.org/news/2018-06-image-lake-huron.html Earth Sciences Fri, 22 Jun 2018 09:30:02 EDT news448877565 Historians from Murdoch University have joined a global study that will shed light on how to better deal with the prediction and aftermath of environmental disasters in the Indian Ocean region, including tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. https://phys.org/news/2018-06-natural-disasters-world.html Environment Fri, 22 Jun 2018 09:20:02 EDT news448876898 Solving problems in an interdisciplinary and humanitarian manner: TU Darmstadt and the German Aerospace Centre are developing a sustainable system for supplying water to slum areas that is based on satellite data. https://phys.org/news/2018-06-permanently-people-slums.html Environment Fri, 22 Jun 2018 09:10:01 EDT news448876411 Australia's first submarine, lost at sea for over 100 years, continues to reveal its secret history through advanced 3-D processing techniques of underwater still photography. https://phys.org/news/2018-06-secrets-hmas-ae1-shipwreck.html Earth Sciences Fri, 22 Jun 2018 09:00:01 EDT news448875030 The Fermi Paradox remains a stumbling block when it comes to the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI). Named in honor of the famed physicist Enrico Fermi who first proposed it, this paradox addresses the apparent disparity between the expected probability that intelligent life is plentiful in the universe, and the apparent lack of evidence of extra-terrestrial intelligence (ETI). https://phys.org/news/2018-06-advanced-civilization-universe.html Astronomy Fri, 22 Jun 2018 08:50:02 EDT news448874915 A team of researchers from the University of Naples Federico II and the University of Salerno has found that eels exposed to very small amounts of cocaine in the water suffer health problems. In their paper published in Science of The Total Environment, the group describes their study of the eels and what they found. https://phys.org/news/2018-06-european-eels-muscle-due-cocaine.html Ecology Fri, 22 Jun 2018 08:50:01 EDT news448875505 Are you scared of sharks? If you never read or watched the news, would you still be? https://phys.org/news/2018-06-frenzypublic-accuse-media-deliberately-fuelling.html Ecology Fri, 22 Jun 2018 08:40:02 EDT news448874790 Colorado State University polymer chemists have taken another step toward a future of high-performance, biorenewable, biodegradable plastics. https://phys.org/news/2018-06-chemists-biorenewable-biodegradable-plastic-alternative.html Materials Science Fri, 22 Jun 2018 08:34:38 EDT news448875270