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. Touchscreens are so yesterday. Remote controls? So last century. The future is controlling your devices with a simple wave of the hand. http://www.physorg.com/news180766475.html Electronics Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:10:04 EST news180766475 Internet powerhouse Google and Japanese electronics giant Fujitsu have joined an alliance to promote the ability of objects from appliances to cars to communicate with one another online. http://www.physorg.com/news180372614.html Technology Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:30:54 EST news180372614 (AP) -- Texas Instruments is raising its fourth-quarter profit and sales outlook, citing an improving market for chips used in cell phones and other electronic gadgets. http://www.physorg.com/news179515024.html Technology Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:17:43 EST news179515024 If cellphones with built-in video projectors are going to take the country by storm, then Dallas will be at the eye of the hurricane. http://www.physorg.com/news178916956.html Electronics Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:09:37 EST news178916956 (PhysOrg.com) -- Computer chips that transmit data with light instead of electricity consume much less power than conventional chips, but so far, they've remained laboratory curiosities. Professors Vladimir Stojanović and Rajeev Ram and their colleagues in MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics and Microsystems Technology Laboratory hope to change that, by designing optical chips that can be built using ordinary chip-manufacturing processes. http://www.physorg.com/news178298113.html Technology Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:15:49 EST news178298113 (AP) -- European Union antitrust regulators on Tuesday dropped a monopoly abuse probe into wireless chip maker Qualcomm Inc. after mobile phone companies withdrew complaints about high royalty fees. http://www.physorg.com/news178296522.html Technology Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:49:22 EST news178296522 The intimate and spirited quarters of a stadium offer perhaps the most ideal venues to experience an athletic event. Or do they? http://www.physorg.com/news176749865.html Technology Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:11:37 EST news176749865 For most people music is an enjoyable, although momentary, form of entertainment. But for those who seriously practiced a musical instrument when they were young, perhaps when they played in a school orchestra or even a rock band, the musical experience can be something more. Recent research shows that a strong correlation exists between musical training for children and certain other mental abilities. http://www.physorg.com/news176728142.html Medicine & Health Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:09:52 EST news176728142 Particle accelerators are among the largest and most expensive scientific instruments. Thirty years ago, theorists John Dawson and Toshiki Tajima proposed an idea for making them thousands of times smaller: surf the particles on plasma waves driven by short intense laser pulses. Since plasmas are free of the damage limits of conventional accelerators, much larger fields can be built up within such waves, enabling much smaller accelerators. http://www.physorg.com/news176402686.html Physics Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:20:01 EST news176402686 NASA begins a series of flights Oct. 15 to study changes to Antarctica's sea ice, glaciers and ice sheets. The flights are part of Operation Ice Bridge, a six-year campaign that is the largest airborne survey ever made of ice at Earth's polar regions. http://www.physorg.com/news174245200.html Space & Earth Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:10:02 EST news174245200 A US technology company which won a patent case against software giant Microsoft filed suit on Tuesday against nearly two dozen other high-profile firms accusing them of violating the same patent. http://www.physorg.com/news174069684.html Technology Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:41:58 EST news174069684 (PhysOrg.com) -- Northern Illinois University geologists are helping to lead a multi-million-dollar, five-year investigation of melting near the base of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) using a 24-foot-long robotic submarine that will be lowered through more than a half mile of ice into ocean water. http://www.physorg.com/news173979686.html Space & Earth Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:10:24 EST news173979686 (PhysOrg.com) -- A NASA team is developing a transparent coating that mimics the self-cleaning properties of the lotus plant to prevent dirt from sticking to the surfaces of spaceflight gear and bacteria from growing inside astronaut living quarters. http://www.physorg.com/news172925702.html Chemistry Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:55:57 EST news172925702 The tiny male bat didn't expect to wind up in a biologist's hand when he set out in search of a nighttime snack along Box Canyon Creek. http://www.physorg.com/news172483467.html Biology Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:40:02 EST news172483467 In the early 1980s, scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., developed the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), an innovative combination of two satellite measurements that allowed them to analyze changes in the "greenness" of Earth as viewed from space. Much like measurements from weather satellites allow meteorologists to track and monitor hurricanes, NDVI lets scientists track droughts, crop infestations, and even full-blown crop failures that lead to widespread famine. http://www.physorg.com/news172427765.html Space & Earth Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:00:08 EST news172427765