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) -- A new species of bird from the Cretaceous period in China has been identified. It had toothless upper and lower jaws, and provides significant information on the diversification in the evolution of birds during the Early Cretaceous. http://www.physorg.com/news179652422.html Other Sciences Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:27:41 EST news179652422 Using literature written by Thomas Hardy, DH Lawrence and Herman Melville, physicists in Sweden have developed a formula to detect different authors' literary 'fingerprints'. http://www.physorg.com/news179651371.html Physics Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:10:32 EST news179651371 Next time you spy the Big Dipper, keep in mind that there is another star, invisible to the unaided eye, contributing to this constellation. http://www.physorg.com/news179651081.html Space & Earth Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:07:05 EST news179651081 (AP) -- Solar technology is going where it has never gone before: onto the shelves at retail stores where do-it-yourselfers can now plunk a panel into a shopping cart and bring it home to install. http://www.physorg.com/news179647607.html Technology Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:34:36 EST news179647607 (PhysOrg.com) -- Thanks to the Internet and online social networks (OSNs) news and gossip now spread literally like wildfire -- uncontrollably and seemingly without any order. But according to one Ryerson researcher, there is method to the madness. With the right mathematical model, you could spot when and where a story starts, then watch as it skips across the Internet. One day, similar models could even detect and track terrorist cells within OSNs. http://www.physorg.com/news179607879.html Other Sciences Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:20:01 EST news179607879 Apple Inc. is on track to launch a much-anticipated, tablet-sized computing device early next year, according to brokerage reports Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news179608527.html Electronics Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:15:57 EST news179608527 If the data devoured in the United States last year were converted to text there would be enough books to bury the country under a pile seven feet (two meters) deep, according to a study released Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news179607429.html Technology Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:10:02 EST news179607429 (PhysOrg.com) -- The oceans play a key role in regulating climate, absorbing more than a quarter of the carbon dioxide that humans put into the air. Now, the first year-by-year accounting of this mechanism during the industrial era suggests the oceans are struggling to keep up with rising emissions -a finding with potentially wide implications for future climate. http://www.physorg.com/news179602661.html Space & Earth Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:10:07 EST news179602661 The declining use of hormone therapy among women has led to 6,000 fewer invasive breast cancer cases a year, according to an analysis by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The research quantifies and advances what doctors had suspected: that the dramatic decline in hormone use beginning in 2002 was the cause of a reduction in the breast cancer rate that began the following year. http://www.physorg.com/news179603529.html Medicine & Health Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:52:35 EST news179603529 (PhysOrg.com) -- After waiting years for the sun to illuminate Saturn's north pole again, cameras aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft have captured the most detailed images yet of the intriguing hexagon shape crowning the planet. http://www.physorg.com/news179601566.html Space & Earth Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:50:03 EST news179601566 Results of a preliminary study by scientists at the National Institutes of Health and Johns Hopkins show that "mini" stem cell transplantation may safely reverse severe sickle cell disease in adults. http://www.physorg.com/news179602876.html Medicine & Health Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:42:02 EST news179602876 (PhysOrg.com) -- Philips Research has developed a novel color e-paper technology that opens up new design opportunities for personalizing electronic devices. This means that the color and appearance, of the device`s surface, for example an MP3 player or mobile phone can easily be changed to match your outfit, mood or environment simply at the touch of a button. http://www.physorg.com/news179602254.html Technology Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:31:31 EST news179602254 December 9, 2009 -Even small errors made by cells during protein production can have profound disease effects, and nature has developed ways to uncover these mistakes and correct them. Though in the case of one essential protein building block -the amino acid alanine -nature has been extra careful, developing not one, but two checkpoints in her effort to make sure that this component is used correctly. http://www.physorg.com/news179598698.html Biology Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:10:01 EST news179598698 The Mediterranean Sea was mostly filled in less than two years in a dramatic flood around 5.33 million years ago in which water poured in from the Atlantic, according to a study published Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news179598629.html Space & Earth Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:00:02 EST news179598629 (PhysOrg.com) -- A galaxy located billions of light-years away is commanding the attention of NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and astronomers around the globe. Thanks to a series of flares that began September 15, the galaxy is now the brightest source in the gamma-ray sky -- more than ten times brighter than it was in the summer. http://www.physorg.com/news179593672.html Space & Earth Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:40:01 EST news179593672 (AP) -- The world's largest atom smasher has recorded its first high-energy collisions of protons, a spokeswoman said Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news179598457.html Physics Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:28:44 EST news179598457 (PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford engineers have built what they believe is a chip with the most advanced computing and storage elements made of carbon nanotubes to date by devising a way to root out the stubborn complication of nanotubes that cause short circuits. http://www.physorg.com/news179596676.html Nanotechnology Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:58:58 EST news179596676 (PhysOrg.com) -- Dinosaurs have literally been put through their paces by a new supercomputer, allowing scientists to get closer to understanding how they once moved. http://www.physorg.com/news179594858.html Other Sciences Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:50:04 EST news179594858 (AP) -- The e-book reading device is the gadget gift of the season. Both Sony and Barnes & Noble have sold out of their new models, and new buyers will have to wait until January for delivery. So why are e-book readers still such clumsy, annoying devices? http://www.physorg.com/news179596042.html Electronics Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:48:49 EST news179596042 (PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny devices made possible by combining the latest advances in mechanical and electronics technology could be at the heart of next-generation personal navigation and vehicle stabilisation tools thanks to European researchers. http://www.physorg.com/news179595089.html Technology Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:32:23 EST news179595089 (PhysOrg.com) -- A specialized camera on a telescope operated by U.K. astronomers from Liverpool has made the first measurement of magnetic fields in the afterglow of a gamma-ray burst (GRB). The result is reported in the Dec.10 issue of Nature magazine by the team of Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) astronomers who built and operate the telescope and its unique scientific camera, named RINGO. http://www.physorg.com/news179593825.html Space & Earth Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:11:24 EST news179593825 Nerve cells transplanted into brain-damaged rats helped them to fully recover their ability to learn and remember, probably by promoting nurturing, protective growth factors, according to a new study. http://www.physorg.com/news179589260.html Medicine & Health Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:50:11 EST news179589260 Despite their ability to fly, tropical birds waited until the formation of the land bridge between North and South America to move northward, according to a University of British Columbia study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition. http://www.physorg.com/news179591830.html Biology Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:45:31 EST news179591830 Scientists in France have isolated a new giant virus that lurks inside amoeba and whose gene pool includes genetic material from other species. http://www.physorg.com/news179588551.html Biology Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:30:13 EST news179588551 (PhysOrg.com) -- In a study that elevates the role of entropy in creating order, research led by the University of Michigan shows that certain pyramid shapes can spontaneously organize into complex quasicrystals. http://www.physorg.com/news179588725.html Chemistry Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:30:10 EST news179588725 Spain on Wednesday handed back to the United States a robot which last week completed the first underwater crossing of the Atlantic Ocean to help monitor climate change by tracking temperatures. http://www.physorg.com/news179588220.html Space & Earth Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:30:06 EST news179588220 (PhysOrg.com) -- Microchip manufacturers have long faced challenges miniaturizing transistors, the key active components in nearly every modern electronic device, which are used to amplify or switch electronic signals. http://www.physorg.com/news179590555.html Nanotechnology Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:16:53 EST news179590555 Researchers at the Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine and the Immune Disease Institute at Children's Hospital Boston (PCMM/IDI) have found a link between a common mutation that can lead to cancer and a distant gene regulator that enhances its activity. Discovery of this relationship could lead to drugs targeting B-cell lymphomas, including Burkitt's lymphoma, an aggressive cancer in children, as well as multiple myelomas and other blood-related cancers. http://www.physorg.com/news179587127.html Medicine & Health Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:10:01 EST news179587127 Scientists have for the first time selectively blocked a conditioned fear memory in humans with a behavioral manipulation. Participants remained free of the fear memory for at least a year. The research builds on emerging evidence from animal studies that reactivating an emotional memory opens a 6-hour window of opportunity in which a training procedure can alter it. http://www.physorg.com/news179587833.html Medicine & Health Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:31:48 EST news179587833 Scientists from the University of Zurich have discovered the physiological mechanisms in the brain that underlie broken promises. Patterns of brain activity even enable predicting whether someone will break a promise. The results of the study conducted by Dr. Thomas Baumgartner and Professor Ernst Fehr, both of the University of Zurich, and Professor Urs Fischbacher of the University of Konstanz, will be published in the journal Neuron on December 10, 2009. http://www.physorg.com/news179585680.html Medicine & Health Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:20:01 EST news179585680