http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Individuals with higher mid-life Body Mass Index (BMI) in the 1960s have been found to have lower memory and thinking skills and a sharper decline in these abilities in old age, compared to those with lower BMI in mid-life. http://www.physorg.com/news166089672.html Medicine & Health Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:01:52 EST news166089672 New cars sold in California must include windshields that block or absorb the sun's rays beginning in 2012, the state's Air Resources Board recently ruled. http://www.physorg.com/news166089495.html Space & Earth Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:58:42 EST news166089495 The seismometer is snugged in its hole and tamped over with dirt. Now it's time for the stomp test. http://www.physorg.com/news166089342.html Space & Earth Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:57:05 EST news166089342 (AP) -- Takeo Doi, a scholar who wrote that the Japanese psyche thrived on a love-hungry dependence on authority figures, has died, his family said Monday. He was 89. http://www.physorg.com/news166088893.html Medicine & Health Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:49:09 EST news166088893 (AP) -- NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile phone operator, said Monday it spent $45.5 million to take a 35 percent share in a U.S. company that makes multimedia technology for its mobile phones. http://www.physorg.com/news166088727.html Technology Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:45:55 EST news166088727 Wake Forest University scientists have developed a new research tool in the pursuit of heart medications based on the compound nitroxyl by identifying unique chemical markers for its presence in biological systems. http://www.physorg.com/news166081501.html Chemistry Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:20:01 EST news166081501 HTC Corp, Taiwan's leading smartphone maker, said Monday its net profit in the second quarter was down almost two percent from a year earlier. http://www.physorg.com/news166082134.html Technology Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:56:40 EST news166082134 (AP) -- Samsung Electronics Co., the world's biggest manufacturer of memory chips, announced quarterly earnings estimates for the first time Monday, saying it hopes to reduce market confusion and speculation about its performance. http://www.physorg.com/news166082036.html Technology Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:54:20 EST news166082036 Climate change is rapidly expanding the size of the world's tropical zone, threatening to bring disease and drought to heavily populated areas, an Australian study has found. http://www.physorg.com/news166081900.html Space & Earth Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:52:09 EST news166081900 Parents who value strenuous team sports are more likely to influence their children to join a team or at least participate in some kind of exercise, and spend less time in front of the TV or computer, a new study says. http://www.physorg.com/news166081560.html Medicine & Health Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:46:46 EST news166081560 (PhysOrg.com) -- Designer abalone could be an option in the foreseeable future, thanks to a project conducted at UQ's Heron Island Research Station and the St Lucia campus. http://www.physorg.com/news166078595.html Biology Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:30:01 EST news166078595 Coffee drinkers may have another reason to pour that extra cup. When aged mice bred to develop symptoms of Alzheimer's disease were given caffeine - the equivalent of five cups of coffee a day - their memory impairment was reversed, report University of South Florida researchers at the Florida Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. http://www.physorg.com/news166078859.html Medicine & Health Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:01:35 EST news166078859 A new study by researchers at Rhode Island Hospital have found a substantial link between increased levels of nitrates in our environment and food with increased deaths from diseases, including Alzheimer's, diabetes mellitus and Parkinson's. The study was published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. http://www.physorg.com/news166078729.html Medicine & Health Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:59:25 EST news166078729 (PhysOrg.com) -- Two UQ Science researchers have proved two famous physical laws that have been widely used for the past 25 years do not always work. http://www.physorg.com/news166077673.html Physics Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:41:46 EST news166077673 (AP) -- Having built and sold two technology startups for a combined $11.7 billion, Marc Andreessen is ready to take a stab at, well, finding the next Marc Andreessen. http://www.physorg.com/news166077390.html Technology Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:37:14 EST news166077390 In a discovery that rebuffs conventional scientific thinking, researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) have discovered a novel way to block the activity of the fusion protein responsible for Ewing's sarcoma, a rare cancer found in children and young adults. http://www.physorg.com/news166020639.html Medicine & Health Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:50:01 EST news166020639 Wind power generation is expected to be a clean and environmentally friendly natural energy source, but a new kind of environmental problem has surfaced as infrasonic waves caused by windmills are suspected of causing health problems for some people. http://www.physorg.com/news166022416.html Medicine & Health Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:25:45 EST news166022416 A plan to restore salmon runs on California's Sacramento River also could help revive killer whale populations 700 miles to the north in Puget Sound, as federal scientists struggle to protect endangered species in a complex ecosystem that stretches along the Pacific coast from California to Alaska. http://www.physorg.com/news166022139.html Biology Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:16:25 EST news166022139 (AP) -- The media moguls attending an annual powwow staged by investment bank Allen & Co. used to be able to rest comfortably in the Idaho mountains as they mulled their next moves. http://www.physorg.com/news166022009.html Technology Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:13:47 EST news166022009 Using zebrafish, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have identified and described an enzyme inhibitor that allows them to increase the number of cardiac progenitor cells and therefore influence the size of the developing heart. The findings are described in the advance online version of Nature Chemical Biology. http://www.physorg.com/news166020510.html Chemistry Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:49:08 EST news166020510 Common genetic variations spread across five genes raise a person's risk of developing the most frequent type of brain tumor, an international research team reports online in Nature Genetics. http://www.physorg.com/news166020413.html Medicine & Health Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:47:35 EST news166020413 A newly discovered mechanism controls whether muscle cells in blood vessels hasten the development of both atherosclerosis and Alzheimer's disease, according to an article published online today in the journal Nature. http://www.physorg.com/news166020056.html Medicine & Health Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:41:26 EST news166020056 Malaysia's health authorities have seized over 20,000 dollars worth of coffee mixed with sildenafil, the main ingredient in erectile dysfunction drug Viagra, a report said Sunday. http://www.physorg.com/news166004975.html Medicine & Health Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:30:02 EST news166004975 Japanese authorities told a sales affiliate of US retail giant Amazon.com to pay about 119 million dollars in tax for unreported income over a three-year period, a newspaper said Sunday. http://www.physorg.com/news166004924.html Technology Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:30:01 EST news166004924 Forty years ago on July 20, 1969, American astronaut Neil Armstrong realized the oldest dream of human civilizations when he became the first man to walk on the moon. http://www.physorg.com/news166004852.html Space & Earth Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:28:20 EST news166004852 (AP) -- When owners of the Empire State Building decided to blanket its towering facade this year with thousands of insulating windows, they were only partly interested in saving energy. They also needed tenants. http://www.physorg.com/news166004658.html Technology Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:24:54 EST news166004658 (AP) -- Credit the recession for "staycations" and bringing us more game-night parties at home. But also give it a shout for spurring more first dates. http://www.physorg.com/news166004604.html Technology Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:23:58 EST news166004604 (AP) -- He's the spy who came in from the beach. http://www.physorg.com/news166004519.html Technology Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:22:29 EST news166004519 (PhysOrg.com) -- At first it may seem that the number of citations received by a published scientific paper is directly related to that paper's quality of content. The higher the quality, the more people read and cite that paper. However, the number of citations received by a paper depends more on when that paper was published; papers published early in a new field receive many more citations than those published later on. Although this effect has previously been known, a recent study has tested and verified the so-called "first mover advantage" with data from selected fields. http://www.physorg.com/news165950992.html Physics Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:30:20 EST news165950992 Costa Rica is the happiest place on earth, and one of the most environmentally friendly, according to a new survey by a British non-governmental group. http://www.physorg.com/news165950840.html Other Sciences Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:28:10 EST news165950840