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. Sharp Corporation has achieved the world's highest solar cell conversion efficiency (for non-concentrator solar cells) of 35.8% using a triple-junction compound solar cell. http://www.physorg.com/news175452895.html Technology Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:55:22 EST news175452895 (AP) -- Huge sheets of glass are guided by robotic arms, sliding and turning in a towering germ-free plant, the world's first making giant "10th generation" panels for flat screen TVs. http://www.physorg.com/news178807044.html Technology Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:50:01 EST news178807044 (PhysOrg.com) -- Sharp Corporation has announced the development of a new 500 mW semiconductor laser for triple- and quadruple- layer Blu-ray discs. http://www.physorg.com/news172481493.html Technology Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:10:01 EST news172481493 (AP) -- European Union antitrust regulators have charged Royal Philips Electronics NV and LG Display with fixing the price of liquid crystal display monitors, Philips said Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news166690874.html Technology Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:01:59 EST news166690874 Japanese high-tech giant Panasonic Corp. announced Monday a big first-quarter loss, blaming weak sales of televisions, digital cameras and other electronic goods during the recession. http://www.physorg.com/news168498511.html Technology Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:00:02 EST news168498511 (AP) -- Nokia Corp., the world's biggest mobile phone maker, said Tuesday it has filed suits against several leading liquid crystal display makers - including Philips, Toshiba, Sharp and Samsung - for alleged price fixing. http://www.physorg.com/news178887043.html Technology Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:55:21 EST news178887043 More than 40 percent of Swedes engage in illegal file sharing, but recording industry officials have noted a sharp drop since a government crackdown earlier this year, they said Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news174584804.html Technology Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:47:29 EST news174584804 Dr. Lixia Yang (above) and her co-author, Ralf Krampe of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany, found that seniors were able to retain 50 per cent of concepts they learned almost a year before. http://www.physorg.com/news172165840.html Medicine & Health Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:51:31 EST news172165840 Demand for solar cells has been growing rapidly in Japan with a record generating capacity of 83,260 kilowatts shipped to the domestic market between April and June, up 82.5 percent from the same quarter last year, a private-sector survey showed Sunday. http://www.physorg.com/news171654101.html Technology Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:42:00 EST news171654101 Every high school biology student learns the basics of how genes are expressed: DNA, the cell`s master information keeper, is copied into messenger RNA, which carries protein-building instructions to the ribosome, the part of the cell where proteins are assembled. http://www.physorg.com/news177231115.html Biology Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:52:21 EST news177231115 A Rutgers University, Newark and Collége de France, Paris research team has pinpointed for the first time the mechanism that takes place during sleep that causes learning and memory formation to occur. http://www.physorg.com/news172255072.html Medicine & Health Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:38:12 EST news172255072 (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 Danish nanophysicists have developed a new method for manufacturing the cornerstone of nanotechnology research - nanowires. The discovery has great potential for the development of nanoelectronics and highly efficient solar cells. http://www.physorg.com/news176377185.html Nanotechnology Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:50:01 EST news176377185 A Ryerson University HIV researcher has found a link between social anxiety and unsafe sexual activities among gay and bisexual men, some of whom are HIV-positive. http://www.physorg.com/news178904602.html Medicine & Health Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:20:01 EST news178904602 New research, which reconstructs the extent of ice in the sea between Greenland and Svalbard from the 13th century to the present indicates that there has never been so little sea ice as there is now. The research results from the Niels Bohr Institute, among others, are published in the scientific journal, Climate Dynamics. http://www.physorg.com/news165668875.html Space & Earth Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:00:02 EST news165668875