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. Genomic switches can predispose an individual to one set of autoimmune disorders but protect the same person against another set of them, scientists at Stanford University School of Medicine have found. http://www.physorg.com/news180787044.html Medicine & Health Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:00:03 EST news180787044 (PhysOrg.com) -- Cranfield University has developed new technology that could significantly reduce the manufacturing costs of complex devices such as electronic noses that sniff out explosives and dangerous chemicals and gadgets that can diagnose disease. http://www.physorg.com/news180721397.html Technology Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:24:01 EST news180721397 Sandia National Laboratories scientists have developed tiny glitter-sized photovoltaic cells that could revolutionize the way solar energy is collected and used. http://www.physorg.com/news180713660.html Technology Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:14:56 EST news180713660 The use of a digital checklist for patients being administered emergency drugs during a pandemic or following a biological terrorist attack reduces the fatigue factor, according to a report in the International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management, and could save lives. http://www.physorg.com/news180706525.html Medicine & Health Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:40:04 EST news180706525 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Arizona State University have developed an elegant method for significantly improving the memory capacity of electronic chips. http://www.physorg.com/news180643634.html Technology Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:20:02 EST news180643634 (PhysOrg.com) -- Lan Nguyen Chaplin, an assistant professor in the Eller College of Management, says children and teenagers, in finding happiness, do not always place material things before personal relationships. http://www.physorg.com/news180631712.html Medicine & Health Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:30:59 EST news180631712 (PhysOrg.com) -- University of California, Riverside Professor of Electrical Engineering and Chair of Materials Science and Engineering Alexander Balandin is leading several projects to explore ways to use the unique capabilities of graphene ?quilts? as heat conductors in high-power electronics. http://www.physorg.com/news180628388.html Nanotechnology Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:34:22 EST news180628388 (PhysOrg.com) -- With cheques due to be phased out in the UK by 2018 new security technology developed at Oxford University could offer a replacement, allowing people a secure way to pay in almost any situation. http://www.physorg.com/news180342132.html Technology Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:30:01 EST news180342132 I may have caught a glimpse of the future last week. In San Francisco, a startup company called Fusion Garage showed off the JooJoo, a touch-screen device that looks like the iPhone's big brother. The JooJoo is one of the first of a new generation of tablet computers expected to hit store shelves in the coming year. http://www.physorg.com/news180298455.html Electronics Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:30:01 EST news180298455 The research that brought to light the fossils of Ardipithecus ramidus, a hominid species that lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia, has topped Science's list of this year's most significant scientific breakthroughs. The monumental find predates "Lucy," -- previously the most ancient partial skeleton of a hominid on record -- by more than one million years, and it inches researchers ever-closer to the last common ancestor shared by humans and chimpanzees. http://www.physorg.com/news180282874.html Other Sciences Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:35:25 EST news180282874 Officially this is not another gift guide. Instead I'd rather consider it the first of two roundups either of products I just haven't gotten to this year or some I have just couldn't find a home for. http://www.physorg.com/news180279239.html Electronics Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:00:05 EST news180279239 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a non-volatile memory that has the same basic structure as a flash memory but is made from cheap, flexible, organic materials. http://www.physorg.com/news180259614.html Technology Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:07:41 EST news180259614 Verifying the accuracy of network analyzers -instruments that are used to measure key performance characteristics of electronic networks -was once an awkward process involving multiple steps and pieces of equipment. http://www.physorg.com/news180207439.html Technology Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:10:07 EST news180207439 NEC Corporation, in collaboration with the National Institute of Materials Science, today announced the successful integration of NanoBridge, a solid electrolyte non-volatile crossbar switch, in Cu interconnects placed on CMOS logic. This development enables the realization of high performance non-volatile programmable logic at a low cost. http://www.physorg.com/news180038763.html Technology Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:00:01 EST news180038763 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have discovered the microscopic mechanism behind the phenomenon of superinsulation, the ability of certain materials to completely block the flow of electric current at low temperatures. The essence of the mechanism is what the authors termed "multi-stage energy relaxation." http://www.physorg.com/news180035393.html Physics Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:40:02 EST news180035393