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. (PhysOrg.com) -- Dell today announced three new commercial workgroup printers to help businesses of all sizes increase productivity and lower their total cost of printing. http://www.physorg.com/news177187372.html Electronics Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:20:01 EST news177187372 (AP) -- Lillian Landry always said she wasn't afraid to die. So when death came last week, the 99-year-old was lying peacefully in a hospice with no needles or tubes. Her final days saw her closest friend at her side and included occasional shots of her favorite whiskey, Canadian Mist. http://www.physorg.com/news177186893.html Medicine & Health Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:40:01 EST news177186893 First off, I'd like to thank Facebook for confusing its users yet again with a new feature that is hard to decipher and makes users grumpy. It really makes my job of picking a column topic so easy when they baffle folks with a new layout every couple months. http://www.physorg.com/news177178890.html Technology Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:30:01 EST news177178890 If you're among the hundreds of thousands of Americans with clogged kidney arteries, you might want to consider trying medicines before rushing into angioplasty to open them up. The pricey procedure is no more effective and carries surprisingly big risks, a study found. http://www.physorg.com/news177186990.html Medicine & Health Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:00:02 EST news177186990 Google is adding World Bank figures to Internet results in a bid to make hard facts about countries worldwide easier to find. http://www.physorg.com/news177186683.html Technology Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:00:01 EST news177186683 (AP) -- Federal health officials now say that 4,000 or more Americans likely have died from swine flu - about four times the estimate they've been using. http://www.physorg.com/news177186728.html Medicine & Health Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:50:01 EST news177186728 A study appearing in Science Translational Medicine puts scientists one step closer to clinical trials to test a gene delivery strategy to improve muscle mass and function in patients with certain degenerative muscle disorders. http://www.physorg.com/news177186395.html Medicine & Health Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:40:02 EST news177186395 (AP) -- Hewlett-Packard Co. said Wednesday it is buying the 3Com Corp. networking company for $2.7 billion, the latest move by the world's No. 1 personal computer maker to expand into more profitable areas than PCs. http://www.physorg.com/news177186490.html Technology Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:40:02 EST news177186490 Doctors in northern Peru have removed almost a kilogram of nails, coins and scrap metal from a man's stomach, a surgeon that operated on him said Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news177186771.html Medicine & Health Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:33:16 EST news177186771 (AP) -- Microsoft's Bing search service will pull more information and tools from other Web sites as the company tries to distinguish itself as part of its challenge to market leader Google. http://www.physorg.com/news177186420.html Technology Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:27:43 EST news177186420 (AP) -- The first touch-screen BlackBerry phone, the Storm, got a few things right, but generally it was a chore to use. http://www.physorg.com/news177186331.html Electronics Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:26:18 EST news177186331 Slowing the growth in U.S. health care spending will most likely require adoption of an array of strategies as well as an improved approach to moving promising strategies into widespread use, according to a new analysis by the RAND Corporation. http://www.physorg.com/news177186304.html Medicine & Health Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:25:52 EST news177186304 A team led by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has found a clear link between living to 100 and inheriting a hyperactive version of an enzyme that rebuilds telomeres - the tip ends of chromosomes. The findings appear in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. http://www.physorg.com/news177186096.html Medicine & Health Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:22:39 EST news177186096 (AP) -- Analysis of a dozen published studies testing possible new uses for a Pfizer Inc. epilepsy drug found that reporting of the results was often fudged, indicating the medicine worked better than internal company documents showed. http://www.physorg.com/news177184811.html Medicine & Health Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:00:46 EST news177184811 Google's latest brainchild, Google Wave, is all the rage among bleeding-edge technology enthusiasts. But corporate information technology executives say that while they're intrigued by Wave -- a replacement for e-mail, the most widely used of all Internet services -- they're not ready to adopt it. http://www.physorg.com/news177177243.html Technology Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:00:02 EST news177177243 (PhysOrg.com) -- Pediatricians and pediatric oncologists express differing views on religion and spirituality, largely based on the types of patients they treat, according to a survey that will appear in the current edition of the journal Social Problems. http://www.physorg.com/news177183961.html Other Sciences Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:00:01 EST news177183961 (PhysOrg.com) -- Amid the on-going controversy over the safety of mercury-containing dental fillings, a University of Saskatchewan research team has shed new light on how the chemical forms of mercury at the surface of fillings change over time. http://www.physorg.com/news177184158.html Chemistry Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:58:21 EST news177184158 (PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers are busy cooling the science instrument on NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The spacecraft is scheduled to blast into space from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Dec. 7, 2009. It will map the entire sky in infrared light, uncovering all sorts of hidden treasures -- everything from the coolest stars to dark asteroids and the most luminous galaxies. http://www.physorg.com/news177183557.html Space & Earth Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:50:01 EST news177183557 (PhysOrg.com) -- Switching from a low-fat, plant-based diet to one high in fat and sugar alters the collection of microbes living in the gut in less than a day, with obesity-linked microbes suddenly thriving, according to new research at the School of Medicine. The study was based on transplants of human intestinal microbes into germ-free mice. http://www.physorg.com/news177180865.html Medicine & Health Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:40:01 EST news177180865 Predicting the side-effects of a drug is not simple task. The human body has more than 1,500 molecules that are known to be involved in various diseases, and often a drug designed to hit one of these targets will also hit others that have similar structures, causing unintended consequences. http://www.physorg.com/news177183252.html Medicine & Health Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:37:10 EST news177183252 In a new survey of physicians who treat breast cancer patients, only one-third said they had good access to trained medical interpreters or telephone language-interpretation systems when they needed it. Poor access to interpreters can compromise physician-patient communication that is critically important in cancer care. http://www.physorg.com/news177182071.html Medicine & Health Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:14:57 EST news177182071 (PhysOrg.com) -- Into its second week in orbit, Proba-2's spacecraft platform has proven to be in excellent health. This leaves the way clear for commissioning the many new technology payloads aboard the mini-satellite, among the smallest ever flown by ESA. http://www.physorg.com/news177179866.html Space & Earth Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:50:01 EST news177179866 (PhysOrg.com) -- The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine has awarded University of Rochester Medical Center researchers $2.5 million to investigate the impact of psychological interventions on attacks of psoriasis and the intensity of the disease. http://www.physorg.com/news177180535.html Medicine & Health Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:49:30 EST news177180535 (PhysOrg.com) -- Constructing virtual 3D models usually requires heavy and expensive equipment, or takes lengthy amounts of time. A group of researchers at the University of Cambridge, Qi Pan, Dr Gerhard Reitmayr and Dr Tom Drummond have created a program able to build 3D models of textured objects in real-time, using only a standard computer and webcam. This allows 3D modeling to become accessible to everybody. http://www.physorg.com/news177180374.html Technology Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:47:17 EST news177180374 Once upon a time - roughly four billion years ago - Mars was warm and wet, much like Earth. Liquid water flowed on the Martian surface in long rivers that emptied into shallow seas. A thick atmosphere blanketed the planet and kept it warm. Living microbes might have even arisen, some scientists believe, starting Mars down the path toward becoming a second life-filled planet next door to our own. http://www.physorg.com/news177179617.html Space & Earth Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:34:12 EST news177179617 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Columbia University have successfully discovered a beneficial use for carbon dioxide in the conversion of organic materials, such as grass and bark, into fuel. Their findings show that if utilized on a broad scale, their technique could help significantly reduce overall carbon emissions, both from the use of carbon dioxide in biofuel production and the creation of a more energy-efficient production process. The study appears this week on the website of the Journal of Environmental Science & Technology. http://www.physorg.com/news177179481.html Space & Earth Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:31:39 EST news177179481 A new miniature, hand-held microscope may allow more precise removal of brain tumors and an easier recognition of tumor locations during surgery. http://www.physorg.com/news177178774.html Medicine & Health Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:30:03 EST news177178774 James Oliver picked up an Xbox game controller, looked up to a video screen and used the device's buttons and joystick to fly through a patient's chest cavity for an up-close look at the bottom of the heart. http://www.physorg.com/news177177522.html Technology Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:10:01 EST news177177522 (AP) -- Israel displayed for the first time Wednesday a collection of rare coins charred and burned from the Roman destruction of the Jewish Temple nearly 2,000 years ago. http://www.physorg.com/news177176994.html Other Sciences Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:52:37 EST news177176994 Google Latitude to find your nearby friends, you're in luck: Google updated Latitude with location history and alerts for when your friends are nearby. If you don't love your every step tracked -- well, it's kind of creepy. http://www.physorg.com/news177174927.html Technology Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:50:04 EST news177174927