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. (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 (AP) -- Much like its death-defying dives for fish, the brown pelican has resurfaced after plummeting to the brink of extinction. http://www.physorg.com/news177176934.html Biology Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:49:16 EST news177176934 Picking a Christmas gift for the nerd in your life is never easy. In the holiday stampede, it's all too easy to pick an outdated gadget or obsolete program. And mistakes can be costly. http://www.physorg.com/news177173313.html Electronics Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:10:03 EST news177173313 The Earth's climate was far cooler -- perhaps more than 50 degrees -- billions of years ago, which could mean conditions for life all over the planet were more conducive than previously believed, according to a research team that includes a Texas A&M University expert who specializes in geobiology. http://www.physorg.com/news177171329.html Space & Earth Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:00:02 EST news177171329 Sunspots, which rotate around the sun's surface, tell us a great deal about our own planet. Scientists rely on them, for instance, to measure the sun's rotation or to prepare long-range forecasts of the Earth's health. http://www.physorg.com/news177169609.html Space & Earth Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:50:01 EST news177169609 Scientists in Washington, DC, are reporting development and successful tests of a new way for exploring the insides of living cells, the microscopic building blocks of all known plants and animals. They explode the cell while it is still living inside a plant or animal, vaporize its contents, and sniff. The study appears in online in ACS' journal Analytical Chemistry. http://www.physorg.com/news177171735.html Chemistry Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:40:08 EST news177171735 This holiday season, many travelers will be able to keep a close eye on home. Thanks to new security system technology, including live video feed, you can monitor everything from the front door to the sump pump from hundreds of miles away. http://www.physorg.com/news177172067.html Technology Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:40:01 EST news177172067 Silicon nanowires are attracting significant attention from the electronics industry due to the drive for ever-smaller electronic devices, from cell phones to computers. The operation of these future devices, and a wide array of additional applications, will depend on the mechanical properties of these nanowires. New research from North Carolina State University shows that silicon nanowires are far more resilient than their larger counterparts, a finding that could pave the way for smaller, sturdier nanoelectronics, nanosensors, light-emitting diodes and other applications. http://www.physorg.com/news177171851.html Nanotechnology Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:24:43 EST news177171851 Scientists at a group of 11 research centers in China are reporting for the first time assembly of the largest-ever collection of data about the proteins produced by genes in a single human organ. http://www.physorg.com/news177171676.html Chemistry Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:22:35 EST news177171676 Scientists have devised an innovative way to disarm a key protein considered to be "undruggable," meaning that all previous efforts to develop a drug against it have failed. Their discovery, published in the November 12 issue of Nature, lays the foundation for a new kind of therapy aimed directly at a critical human protein - one of a few thousand so-called transcription factors - that could someday be used to treat a variety of diseases, especially multiple types of cancer. http://www.physorg.com/news177168648.html Medicine & Health Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:20:01 EST news177168648 Supermarkets could increase their sales of related items, such as chips and soft drinks, by moving the items closer to each other in their stores, according to research by Ram Bezawada, assistant professor of marketing in the University at Buffalo School of Management. http://www.physorg.com/news177171548.html Other Sciences Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:19:31 EST news177171548 University of California, Berkeley, chemists have discovered the secret to the success of a jellyfish protein whose green glow has made it the darling of biologists and the subject of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news177170607.html Chemistry Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:04:59 EST news177170607 (PhysOrg.com) -- The scalding-hot sea that supposedly covered the early Earth may in fact never have existed, according to a new study by Stanford University researchers who analyzed isotope ratios in 3.4 billion-year-old ocean floor rocks. Their findings suggest that the early ocean was much more temperate and that, as a result, life likely diversified and spread across the globe much sooner in Earth's history than has been generally theorized. http://www.physorg.com/news177168552.html Space & Earth Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:00:01 EST news177168552 (PhysOrg.com) -- If humans are genetically related to chimps, why did our brains develop the innate ability for language and speech while theirs did not? http://www.physorg.com/news177168331.html Medicine & Health Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:26:18 EST news177168331