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. Short-term follow-up is a reasonable alternative to invasive biopsy of palpable (capable of being touched or felt) breast lesions with benign imaging features, particularly in younger women with probable fibroadenoma (non-cancerous tumors that often occur in women during their reproductive years), according to a study published in the December issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology. http://www.physorg.com/news177945932.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:00:03 EST news177945932 NJIT researchers are at work on many scientific and technological frontiers. The National Science Foundation has recently provided support that totals nearly $4.3 million for the diverse efforts of the following investigators under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. http://www.physorg.com/news177955106.html Space & Earth Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:30:05 EST news177955106 GE Global Research, the technology development arm for the General Electric, today announced a $2 million award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to develop wearable RFID sensors to alert people to the presence of environmental chemical agents in the air and sample exhaled breath to serve as an early indicator of disease. http://www.physorg.com/news177955412.html Chemistry Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:30:03 EST news177955412 (PhysOrg.com) -- Food production of modern human societies is mostly based on large-scale monoculture crops, but it now appears that advanced insect societies have the same practice. Our societies took just ten thousand years of (mainly cultural) evolution to adopt this habit and we are far from convinced that it is sustainable. http://www.physorg.com/news177954268.html Biology Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:20:01 EST news177954268 (AP) -- Consumers who haven't yet ordered Barnes & Noble's electronic book reader, the Nook, won't see one before Christmas. http://www.physorg.com/news177954951.html Electronics Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:10:03 EST news177954951 Elpida Memory, Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory, today announced that it had developed a 1-gigabit GDDR5 (product name: EDW1032BABG) that operates at a world-class high speed of 6Gbps. http://www.physorg.com/news177953610.html Technology Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:00:01 EST news177953610 (AP) -- A lawsuit in Wisconsin is bringing a fresh challenge to the practice of paying for keywords on Google and other search engines to boost one company's link over a rival's. http://www.physorg.com/news177954916.html Technology Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:56:11 EST news177954916 (AP) -- Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, health officials said Friday. The cases reported at Duke University Medical Center over six weeks make up the biggest cluster seen so far in the U.S. http://www.physorg.com/news177954788.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:53:56 EST news177954788 (AP) -- A Vatican researcher claims a nearly invisible text on the Shroud of Turin proves the authenticity of the artifact revered as Jesus' burial cloth. The claim made in a new book by historian Barbara Frale drew immediate skepticism from some scientists, who maintain the shroud is a medieval forgery. http://www.physorg.com/news177954765.html Other Sciences Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:53:35 EST news177954765 (PhysOrg.com) -- The atomic-level action of a remarkable class of ring-shaped protein motors has been uncovered by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory using a state-of-the-art protein crystallography beamline at the Advanced Light Source (ALS). These protein motors play pivotal roles in gene expression and replication, and are vital to the survival of all biological cells, as well as infectious agents, such as the human papillomavirus, which has been linked to cervical cancer. http://www.physorg.com/news177954624.html Biology Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:51:16 EST news177954624 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new application for the Android smartphone shows users and software developers how much power their applications are consuming. PowerTutor was developed by doctoral students and professors at the University of Michigan. http://www.physorg.com/news177953946.html Technology Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:40:06 EST news177953946 US newspaper advertising revenue fell by nearly 28 percent in the third quarter, continuing a slide which has led to layoffs, bankruptcies and the closure of several dailies. http://www.physorg.com/news177953266.html Technology Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:40:03 EST news177953266 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the NSLS and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) have demonstrated a technique that could be used to significantly improve the quantity and quality of light produced from a free-electron laser (FEL) - a source that provides pulses of light that can be 1,000 times shorter than those at conventional storage ring light sources. http://www.physorg.com/news177952043.html Physics Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:24:58 EST news177952043 The world's biggest atom-smasher, shut down after its inauguration in September 2008 amid technical faults, restarted on Friday, a spokesman for the European Organisation for Nuclear Research said. http://www.physorg.com/news177951527.html Physics Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:00:46 EST news177951527 Children who suffer physical or emotional abuse may be faced with accelerated cellular aging as adults, according to new research from Butler Hospital and Brown University. http://www.physorg.com/news177951030.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:51:27 EST news177951030 (PhysOrg.com) -- Actor Dwayne Johnson, usually known for his action and comedic film roles, takes to the stars as an astronaut in a new animated feature that brings important messages about the importance of space exploration and education to those of us here on Earth. http://www.physorg.com/news177948639.html Space & Earth Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:40:01 EST news177948639 (PhysOrg.com) -- A multi-trillion-watt laser at the University of Rochester has simulated a stellar jet -- an outpouring of matter from a fledgling star -- with unprecedented realism. http://www.physorg.com/news177949235.html Physics Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:27:46 EST news177949235 In women with lower urinary tract symptoms, a medical imaging technique called dynamic MRI allows clinicians to diagnose pelvic organ prolapse - a condition that often goes undiagnosed on static MRI and at physical examination, according to a study published in the December issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology. http://www.physorg.com/news177945728.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:20:09 EST news177945728 (PhysOrg.com) -- A research team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder has found a clever way to use traditional GPS satellite signals to measure snow depth as well as soil and vegetation moisture, a technique expected to benefit meteorologists, water resource managers, climate modelers and farmers. http://www.physorg.com/news177948533.html Space & Earth Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:20:07 EST news177948533 On the beach at Monster, bulldozers painstakingly turn sand dredged from the bottom of the North Sea bed into dunes in an ambitious effort to safeguard the Netherlands from flooding. http://www.physorg.com/news177946209.html Space & Earth Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:10:02 EST news177946209 Deep under the sea, there's a battle of life and death going on, with no holds barred. Sponges and other marine animals which cannot move around might seem to be defenceless against predators. Yet nothing is further from the truth. These animals produce biologically active chemical substances which provide them with an effective defence against their enemies. http://www.physorg.com/news177947175.html Biology Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:10:02 EST news177947175 Scientists from the Marine Biogeochemistry and Geology and Geophysics sections of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) organized and led a team of university and government scientists on an Arctic expedition to initiate methane hydrate exploration in the Beaufort Sea and determine the spatial variation of sediment contribution to Arctic climate change. http://www.physorg.com/news177948181.html Space & Earth Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:08:11 EST news177948181 (PhysOrg.com) -- Not just birds, but also a few species of bats face a long journey every year. Researchers at Princeton University in the U.S. and at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Radolfzell, Germany studied the migratory behaviour of the largest extant family of bats, the so-called "Vespertilionidae" with the help of mathematical models. They discovered that the migration over short as well as long distances of various kinds of bats evolved independently within the family. http://www.physorg.com/news177948336.html Biology Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:06:17 EST news177948336 A US judge set February 18 for a hearing on the revised legal settlement between Google and US authors and publishers that would allow the Internet giant to scan and sell millions of books online. http://www.physorg.com/news177945750.html Technology Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:50:01 EST news177945750 Using highly precise measurements of plasma lipoprotein concentrations determined by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR), researchers led by Daniel Chasman at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA, the Framingham Heart Study in Framingham, and the PROCARDIS consortium in Stockholm, Sweden and Oxford, England performed genetic association analysis across the whole genome among 17,296 women of European ancestry from the Women's Genome Health Study. http://www.physorg.com/news177945626.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:40:10 EST news177945626 (AP) -- Selling a home without a real estate agent can save thousands of dollars in commission fees, but it can also be a painstaking, confusing task. http://www.physorg.com/news177945503.html Technology Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:40:09 EST news177945503 Cisco on Friday announced the release of a free iPhone application for anyone who wants to stay on top of the latest trojans, worms, or other threats marauding on the Internet. http://www.physorg.com/news177945860.html Technology Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:40:03 EST news177945860 Older adults who have alcohol dependence problems drink significantly more than do younger adults who have similar problems, a new study has found. http://www.physorg.com/news177945316.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:30:14 EST news177945316 The estimated 4.6 million Americans involved in the equine industry may be at risk of developing respiratory symptoms due to poor air quality in horse barns, according to a questionnaire study undertaken earlier this year by investigators at Tufts University's Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news177945473.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:30:13 EST news177945473 Bacteria possess an ingenious mechanism for preventing oxygen from harming the building blocks of the cell. This is the new finding of a team of biologists that includes Joris Messens of VIB, a life sciences research institute in Flanders, Belgium, connected to the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. The scientists made this discovery by modifying the DNA of the intestinal bacterium Escherichia coli. http://www.physorg.com/news177944623.html Biology Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:30:01 EST news177944623