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) -- When snow falls on this downtown of brick buildings and glass storefronts in southern Oregon, it piles up everywhere but the sidewalks. It's the first sign that this timber and ranching town is like few others. http://www.physorg.com/news188315245.html Technology Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:47:48 EST news188315245 Beijingers woke up Saturday to find the Chinese capital blanketed in yellow dust, as a sandstorm caused by a severe drought in the north and in Mongolia swept into the city. http://www.physorg.com/news188288848.html Space & Earth Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:20:01 EST news188288848 (PhysOrg.com) -- Recent studies have shown that behaviors such as happiness, obesity, smoking and altruism are "contagious" within adult social networks. In other words, your behavior not only influences your friends, but also their friends and so on. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego and Harvard University have taken this a step farther and found that the spread of one behavior in social networks - in this case, poor sleep patterns - influences the spread of another behavior, adolescent drug use. http://www.physorg.com/news188289315.html Medicine & Health Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:36:22 EST news188289315 (PhysOrg.com) -- More than three million years ago, the ancestors of modern humans were still spending a considerable amount of their lives in trees, but something new was happening. http://www.physorg.com/news188289229.html Other Sciences Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:34:29 EST news188289229 YouTube's creators walked away with hundreds of millions of dollars after the startup was bought by Google in 2006, according to documents released in a copyright brawl between Viacom and Google. http://www.physorg.com/news188241062.html Technology Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:11:17 EST news188241062 Johns Hopkins scientists have found that a safe and inexpensive antibiotic in use since the 1970s for treating acne effectively targets infected immune cells in which HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, lies dormant and prevents them from reactivating and replicating. http://www.physorg.com/news188240911.html Medicine & Health Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:08:55 EST news188240911 Composites are combinations of materials that produce properties inaccessible in any one material. A classic example of a composite is fiberglass - plastic fibers woven with glass to add strength to hockey sticks or the hull of a boat. Unlike the well-established techniques for producing fiberglass and other macroscale composites, however, there aren't general schemes available for making nanoscale composites. http://www.physorg.com/news188240753.html Nanotechnology Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:06:12 EST news188240753 Sleep deprivation, it turns out, is colorblind. http://www.physorg.com/news188230931.html Medicine & Health Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:30:01 EST news188230931 (PhysOrg.com) -- The ability of microbes, tiny organisms that do big jobs in our environment, to go dormant not only can save them from death and possible extinction but may also play a key role in promoting biodiversity and ecosystem stability. http://www.physorg.com/news188230310.html Biology Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:12:26 EST news188230310 (PhysOrg.com) -- Sapphire, a brilliant blue gemstone most familiar in jewelry, may soon play an important part in making coal a cleaner fuel source. http://www.physorg.com/news188230021.html Technology Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:07:30 EST news188230021 (PhysOrg.com) -- The National Science Foundation has awarded $1.65 million to a project led by Washington University in St. Louis physicist Ken Kelton to build an electrostatic levitation chamber that will be installed at the Spallation Neutron Source in Oakridge National Laboratory. Using neutrons as a probe, the instrument will allow scientists to watch atoms in a suspended drop of liquid as the drop cools and solidifies. http://www.physorg.com/news188228661.html Physics Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:44:47 EST news188228661 (PhysOrg.com) -- Experts from South Dakota State University and the nearby North Central Agricultural Research Laboratory watched helplessly as a colony of rare, captive lady beetles was lost in 2008, then teetered on the edge of disaster again in 2009. http://www.physorg.com/news188226797.html Biology Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:14:48 EST news188226797 (PhysOrg.com) -- El Niño 2009-2010 just keeps hanging in there. http://www.physorg.com/news188222281.html Space & Earth Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:30:01 EST news188222281 (PhysOrg.com) -- According to current astronomical models, the Milky Way and other large galaxies formed over billions of years in a process that involved interactions between smaller galaxies, and in particular the gradual capture of many stars from nearby dwarf galaxies (small galaxies with hundreds or thousands of times fewer stars than the Milky Way). http://www.physorg.com/news188223693.html Space & Earth Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:22:01 EST news188223693 (PhysOrg.com) -- Take an exhilarating ride through the Orion Nebula, a vast star-making factory 1,500 light-years away. Swoop through Orion's giant canyon of gas and dust. Fly past behemoth stars whose brilliant light illuminates and energizes the entire cloudy region. Zoom by dusty tadpole-shaped objects that are fledgling solar systems. http://www.physorg.com/news188221780.html Space & Earth Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:50:50 EST news188221780 (PhysOrg.com) -- University College London scientists and surgeons have led a revolutionary operation to transplant a new trachea into a child and use the child?s own stem cells to rebuild the airway in the body. http://www.physorg.com/news188221569.html Medicine & Health Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:46:26 EST news188221569 High school seniors, take note: A wise person once said, "It is better to shoot for the stars and miss than aim at the gutter and hit it." http://www.physorg.com/news188218203.html Medicine & Health Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:50:45 EST news188218203 Plastics surround us. A vital manufacturing ingredient for nearly every existing industry, these materials appear in a high percentage of the products we use every day. Although modern life would be hard to imagine without this versatile chemistry, products composed of plastics also have a dark side, due in part to the very characteristics that make them so desirable -- their durability and longevity. http://www.physorg.com/news188210948.html Space & Earth Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:50:02 EST news188210948 Google has been busy. The Internet giant has been copying and storing millions of the world's out-of-print and out-of-copyright books in a vast online archive. It could all be just a mouse click away from your computer screen if the effort, known as the Google Books Library Project, survives a legal challenge. http://www.physorg.com/news188211256.html Technology Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:20:01 EST news188211256 (PhysOrg.com) -- For a brief instant, it appears, scientists at Brook­haven National Laboratory on Long Island recently discovered a law of nature had been broken. http://www.physorg.com/news188211977.html Physics Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:06:51 EST news188211977 The self-assembling properties of the DNA molecule have allowed for the construction of an intriguing range of nanoscale forms. Such nanoarchitectures may eventually find their way into a new generation of microelectronics, semiconductors, biological and chemical sensing devices and a host of biomedical applications. Now Hao Yan and Yan Liu, professors at the Biodesign Institute's Center for Single Molecule Biophysics and their collaborators have introduced a new method to deterministically and precisely position silver nanoparticles onto self-assembling DNA scaffolds. http://www.physorg.com/news188210723.html Nanotechnology Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:45:51 EST news188210723 The presence of an attractive woman elevates testosterone levels and physical risk taking in young men, according to a recent study in the inaugural issue of Social Psychological and Personality Science. http://www.physorg.com/news188209621.html Medicine & Health Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:27:24 EST news188209621 (PhysOrg.com) -- General Motors and scientists from the University of Southern California and Carnegie Mellon University are developing a windshield display that will highlight obstacles or objects on the road to warn drivers of hazards in dark or foggy conditions. http://www.physorg.com/news188201385.html Technology Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:10:01 EST news188201385 (PhysOrg.com) -- The physiological theory that underpins all endurance training and coaching for the last 100 years has just been disproved. http://www.physorg.com/news188205906.html Medicine & Health Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:25:29 EST news188205906 Operators of the world's largest atom smasher on Friday ramped up their massive machine to three times the energy ever previously achieved, in the run-up to experiments probing the secrets of the universe. http://www.physorg.com/news188204873.html Physics Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:11:33 EST news188204873 (PhysOrg.com) -- A design student, frustrated at having his brand new wafer-thin laptop scratched by the unwieldy and bulky plug attached to it, set about re-designing the standard British 3-pin plug that has remained unchanged for over six decades, and invented a plug that folds to a mere one centimeter thickness. http://www.physorg.com/news188200978.html Technology Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:10:01 EST news188200978 (PhysOrg.com) -- For 60 years, the French village of Pont-Saint-Esprit has been famous for the events of a few days in August, 1951, when dozens of villagers were struck with unexplainable and horrifying hallucinations of fire and snakes and beasts of all kinds. http://www.physorg.com/news188198890.html Other Sciences Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:43:27 EST news188198890 US Internet giant Google will close its business in China next month and may announce its plans in the coming days, Chinese media reported on Friday, after rows over censorship and hacking. http://www.physorg.com/news188198211.html Technology Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:17:10 EST news188198211 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new species of dinosaur, a relative of the famous Velociraptor, has been discovered in Inner Mongolia by two PhD students. http://www.physorg.com/news188154841.html Other Sciences Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:01 EST news188154841 Pregnant women in Australia and New Zealand who had swine flu were 13 times more likely to be admitted to hospital with a critical illness, according to research published in the British Medical Journal today. http://www.physorg.com/news188154569.html Medicine & Health Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:00:01 EST news188154569